Lemonade Day Expands Youth Impact to New Cities in 2018
By Steven Gordon, Lemonade Day National President
“The bottom line of vibrant entrepreneurialism is that it creates wealth: for the entrepreneur, for the people that are employed as a result and for the local economy. It creates wealth on a national scale for the government in the form of taxation, which is then redistributed accordingly to the services and communities that need it the most.
The success of an entrepreneur is ultimately in creating a product or service that adds value to the lives of its users; whether that is an inherent need for the item or a simple desire to have it. Either way, an innovation on this scale can help to push a market forward on a domestic level, and – where relevant – drive exports to new overseas markets. This again is a wealth-creating exercise, which is a key driver of economic growth.
Excerpt from Guest Blog by Richard Trenchard entitled “Successful Business Owners Create So Much Good – Both On A National And A Local Scale – That The Weight Of Their Importance Cannot Be Measured In Purely Monetary Terms”
https://www.virgin.com/entrepreneur/what-impact-do-entrepreneurs-have-society
Happy 2018 to you and yours!
As many of us do every new year, the Lemonade Day national staff is pursuing several important goals. One of our primary goals for 2018 is to bring the Lemonade Day experience to more kids with support from cities of all sizes in the United States, Canada and even in South Africa. As of 2017, more than 1 million kids learned about business ownership by participating in Lemonade Day and hosting a lemonade stand in their community. Last year, 62 cities supported Lemonade Day. In 2018, we are able to bring on an additional 18 cities and increase the number of youth who can participate and benefit from this amazing program.
Cities that rally behind Lemonade Day benefit as much as the kids and their adult mentors do: Lemonade Day City Directors engage with thousands of community leaders, chambers of commerce, financial institutions, elected officials, businesses of all types, executives, youth organizations, schools, churches, and non-profit organizations who are demonstrating their commitment to helping kids learn valuable lessons that will benefit them for a lifetime.
Youth entrepreneurship is gaining momentum around the world. Studies have proven that introducing kids to entrepreneurial experiences at an early age makes a measurable impact on their future decisions related to education, training, life, and work.
Cities and communities that host Lemonade Day programs for kids of Kindergarten through Fifth Grade age are making a difference in a positive, meaningful way: they are demonstrating their commitment to bettering people, society and the economy by supporting youth entrepreneurship. I invite you to join me in recruiting Lemonade Day expansion cities for 2018. We currently have 13 new cities for 2018 and are able to take on 5 more!
Debbie Nazarian, Lemonade Day national director of cities, is available to explain the role of Lemonade Day host cities and the support that cities can expect from our national Lemonade Day team. She welcomes your questions by phone or email. Debbie can be reached at 281-217-0634 or debbie@lemonadeday.org.
Thank you for your support. Please share this blog post with others via email and social media.
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 hosted 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.
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By Steven Gordon, Lemonade Day National President
“The bottom line of vibrant entrepreneurialism is that it creates wealth: for the entrepreneur, for the people that are employed as a result and for the local economy. It creates wealth on a national scale for the government in the form of taxation, which is then redistributed accordingly to the services and communities that need it the most.
The success of an entrepreneur is ultimately in creating a product or service that adds value to the lives of its users; whether that is an inherent need for the item or a simple desire to have it. Either way, an innovation on this scale can help to push a market forward on a domestic level, and – where relevant – drive exports to new overseas markets. This again is a wealth-creating exercise, which is a key driver of economic growth.
Excerpt from Guest Blog by Richard Trenchard entitled “Successful Business Owners Create So Much Good – Both On A National And A Local Scale – That The Weight Of Their Importance Cannot Be Measured In Purely Monetary Terms”
https://www.virgin.com/entrepreneur/what-impact-do-entrepreneurs-have-society
Happy 2018 to you and yours!
As many of us do every new year, the Lemonade Day national staff is pursuing several important goals. One of our primary goals for 2018 is to bring the Lemonade Day experience to more kids with support from cities of all sizes in the United States, Canada and even in South Africa. As of 2017, more than 1 million kids learned about business ownership by participating in Lemonade Day and hosting a lemonade stand in their community. Last year, 62 cities supported Lemonade Day. In 2018, we are able to bring on an additional 18 cities and increase the number of youth who can participate and benefit from this amazing program.
Cities that rally behind Lemonade Day benefit as much as the kids and their adult mentors do: Lemonade Day City Directors engage with thousands of community leaders, chambers of commerce, financial institutions, elected officials, businesses of all types, executives, youth organizations, schools, churches, and non-profit organizations who are demonstrating their commitment to helping kids learn valuable lessons that will benefit them for a lifetime.
Youth entrepreneurship is gaining momentum around the world. Studies have proven that introducing kids to entrepreneurial experiences at an early age makes a measurable impact on their future decisions related to education, training, life, and work.
Cities and communities that host Lemonade Day programs for kids of Kindergarten through Fifth Grade age are making a difference in a positive, meaningful way: they are demonstrating their commitment to bettering people, society and the economy by supporting youth entrepreneurship. I invite you to join me in recruiting Lemonade Day expansion cities for 2018. We currently have 13 new cities for 2018 and are able to take on 5 more!
Debbie Nazarian, Lemonade Day national director of cities, is available to explain the role of Lemonade Day host cities and the support that cities can expect from our national Lemonade Day team. She welcomes your questions by phone or email. Debbie can be reached at 281-217-0634 or debbie@lemonadeday.org.
Thank you for your support. Please share this blog post with others via email and social media.
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 hosted 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.
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