These Teens Mean Busine$$ Suite

During this 10-week youth business incubator program, teens test business ideas to earn revenue and promote positive change in their community. They also learn and practice business development, finance, and marketing concepts. During the culminating Teen Pitch & Launch Event, each aspiring entrepreneur pitches their business to a panel of experts and sells their products and services to real customers.

The Teen Ambassadors program is your chance to gain the financial knowledge, job skills, and entrepreneurial mindset you need to succeed as an adult. As a Teen Money Mentor, you’ll teach your peers about financial wellness topics such as budgeting, saving, and investing through fun workshops. Plus, as a Teen Product Manager, you will design and sell business in a box kits that youth actually want. This program helps you build important leadership skills while making a real difference in financial education for your generation. Take charge of your financial future!

Participants must have completed our Academy, Incubator, OR Teen Ambassadors program. During this summer business internship, teens spend a minimum of 90 hours and a maximum of up to 144 hours working alongside local entrepreneurs and gain invaluable experience. Participants also complete 25 hours of in-class coursework focused on work-readiness skills, including resume writing, job interviewing, email and phone communication, presentation skills, and self-evaluation and reflection.

Participants must have completed our Academy, Incubator, Teen Ambassadors, OR Summer Internship program. Teens learn foundational business concepts, earn college credits, and make international friends in this youth entrepreneurship program. Prior to leaving, teens engage in summer coursework to learn about the host country, including its geography, customs, languages, education system, and historical slave trade.  The program includes a 10-14 day trip to immerse them in opportunities out of the country where they work with international teens by applying what they have learned in social entrepreneurship.  Through these collaborative lessons, the teens collectively develop small business ideas aimed at addressing a local need and bringing revenue to the youth, families, and villages.