About BUILD

 

Businesses United in Investing, Lending and
Development ("BUILD") is a social venture, chartered in September 1999, which bridges the divide between youth in East Palo Alto and Eastern Menlo Park ("EPA") and the business and intellectual resources of Silicon Valley. BUILD empowers youth from low-income communities to excel in the classroom, on the job, and beyond by giving them an education in entrepreneurship. 

By encouraging students to develop their own small businesses, BUILD extends traditional entrepreneurial education far beyond the classroom and provides students with real-world business experiences. Intensive involvement of local business and community leaders in mentoring and support of the students, and an operating youth incubator are central and distinctive components of the program.

For more information, go to:

http://www.build.org/about_us/index.htm

The National Foundation For
Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)

Through entrepreneurship education, NFTE helps young people from
low-income communities build skills and unlock their entrepreneurial creativity. Since 1987, NFTE has reached over 100,000 young people, trained more than 3,200 Certified Entrepreneurship Teachers, and continually improved its innovative entrepreneurship curriculum.