By Steven Gordon, Lemonade Day, National President

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Business Planning. Product Development. Marketing and Promotion. Staffing. Customer Service. Financial Management. Community Engagement. Charitable Giving.  Every successful business, regardless of size, operates with these critical functions. 

Who would have thought that setting up a lemonade stand could teach kids about these integral components of running a business?  The reality is that kids who participate in Lemonade Day and adult mentors who support them learn valuable lessons about starting and managing a lemonade business that will last them a lifetime. 

Lemonade Day has made a positive impact on more than 1 million young people in the past 10 years. Within the next 10 years, millions more kids in the United States, Canada and other countries will be exposed to powerful lessons in leadership, empowerment and entrepreneurship that will motivate them at some time in the future to start and sustain businesses, create jobs, become involved in their community, and support causes.

At this very moment, members of the Lemonade Day national headquarters staff are updating Lemonade Day workbooks to be printed and distributed to kids in Kindergarten through the Fifth Grade in 2018. Also available is the popular online version Lemonopolis.  Four key steps are outlined in our Lemonade Day workbooks:

1. Set a goal.

2. Make a plan.

3. Work the plan.

4. Achieve your dream.

These workbooks and Lemonopolis guide kids and teens, with help from a parent or other mentor, to think strategically and take positive, productive action along their Lemonade Day journey. These workbooks also provide effective tips, role-playing scenarios, helpful checklists, sample spreadsheets, and recommended activities.

To access examples of Lemonade Day workbooks for youth and teens, the mentor’s guide and journal, please visit https://lemonadeday.org/sites/default/files/resources/material-examples-website.pdf

Registration for Lemonade Day will begin in early 2018. To learn more about Lemonade Day or to explore opportunities to host Lemonade Day in a city near you, please visit lemonadeday.org.

At the end of the Lemonade Day experience, we want kids and their mentors to have had fun, earned a profit, saved some of their money, spent some of their funds, and shared some of the benefits with a cause or organization that matters to them.

About Lemonade Day

Founded in Houston in 2007 by Michael and Lisa Holthouse, Lemonade Day is a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching every child across North America the business and financial skills that are the key ingredients of entrepreneurship. By learning these skills early in life, children will be better prepared to be successful, financially healthy adults. Through our fun, hands-on program Kids K-5 are empowered to start their very own business—a lemonade stand—and experience the feeling of earning real money, using 100% of their profit to spend, save and share based on their own goals.

Lemonade Day is in 62 cities throughout the United States. Over the past 10 years, we have served more than 1 million kids in our kid entrepreneur programs.

Visit LemonadeDay.org to learn how to participate in Lemonade Day in your city.