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Since she was a little girl, Stephanie Foxworth has dreamed of owning multiple businesses. One of her most ambitious plans involved building an amusement park. When that proved a bit beyond the parameters of the NFTE BizCamp she was taking, she focused on one component of it: making and selling chocolate covered apples.

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Helping the World Run Better Together with NFTE

April 1, 2013  |  0 comments

The following is a Q&A with NFTE Bay Area Board Member Dean Sivara; Mr. Sivara is the Vice President of Ideation for the Global Business Incubator at SAP.

Why are you involved with NFTE?

I have been involved with NFTE for 2 years. The organization focuses on introducing entrepreneur principles to under-privileged kids, which is an excellent cause to promote technology and entrepreneurship to kids who don’t have many resources in their young lives.

What motivates you?

Helping young people obtain more insights into how to start a business. Helping young people achieve business goals and push towards entering college.

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Wink & Flip

At 8 years-old, Natasha watched the Academy Awards on TV and drew the red carpet fashions she saw, changing them to suit her own ideas. At 13, she enrolled in a pre-college design class

at the Fashion Institute of Technology. At 14, armed with a work permit, she discovered that New York City stores were only hiring 16 and 18 year olds. She put her experience of reading

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Denton Malcolm, also known as “Rude Kid-da-ReggaeRap Inventor,” took NFTE at Theodore Roosevelt Senior High School in 1994.  Of his schools days, Denton remembers, “Life was great. I was the president and captain of all the major organizations at school—I just wanted to know how to market myself as an artist.” So Denton enrolled in a NFTE course, to learn just that.

Igniting the entrepreneurial spirit through Ernst & Young’s Adopt-a-Class

March 18, 2013  |  0 comments

Ernst & Young LLP McLean Assurance Manager Josh Dodds celebrates with Annandale High School student Lewis Folli after he won second place in the NFTE Final Business Plan Competition for the Washington DC/Metro Region for his YSC: Yard Sale Coordinators business.By: Ernst & Young LLP's McLean Tax Partner John Domenick

When I joined the Ernst & Young organization in 1999, the mindset of corporate responsibility stood out to me in every aspect of our business. Intrigued, impressed, excited — those were the words that came to mind when I was first introduced to Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) and its mission. After relocating to McLean, Virginia, in 2011, I got involved with the local high school class Ernst & Young LLP  had recently adopted through NFTE's Adopt-a-Class program. I became leader of our Adopt-a-Class program shortly thereafter, recognizing its alignment with the firm's community engagement efforts.

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NFTE: Opening Doors for its Youth

March 11, 2013  |  0 comments

By Jason Rivera

Wow! What a treat it was to attend the 2013 MasterCard Global Inclusion Summit.

The MasterCard Global Inclusion Summit, a companywide event, was held at MasterCard’s beautiful headquarters in Purchase, NY last week. The Summit was a series of panel discussions and interviews by MasterCard employee moderators, providing insights on “next” practices that best link diversity and inclusion to drive business impact. It focused on the many ways MasterCard employees could use their diverse backgrounds and experiences to strengthen MasterCard’s understanding of the complex challenges in the global marketplace.

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Juicy

As the world becomes more environmentally aware, consumers are growing more dependent on reusable water bottles.  For those who want flavored water, however, the options are still limited to commercially packaged beverages.  That’s where Juicy comes in, the innovative brainchild of Galit Tassi and Dvir Dvidovich.