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  • AOL's Cambio.com and NFTE

    May 11, 2012  |  0 comments

     

    AOL’s Cambio.com & NFTE are collaborating with the launch of a new content hub for teens to create businesses and learn to make smart financial choices.

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  • Live Stream of White House Summit on Financial Capability

    May 10, 2012  |  0 comments

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  • Bidding Closed: Dare to Dream Auction

    April 25, 2012  |  0 comments

    NFTE's Dare to Dream Auction is now closed.
    Thank you to everyone who supported the auction, and Congratulations to our winning bidders!

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  • SuperBizCamp Summer 2012

    April 6, 2012  |  0 comments

    NFTE has teamed up with Quantum Learning Network (QLN) to create the SuperBizCamp experience for summer 2012. 

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  • National Financial Capability Month

    April 5, 2012  |  0 comments

    This month, by proclamation of the President of the United States, is National Financial Capability Month, 2012.  In declaring April as National Financial Capability Month, President Obama said:

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  • NFTE & Starbucks: An Entrepreneurial Spirit

    March 29, 2012  |  0 comments

    NFTE is partnering with Starbucks in April to support our educational programs in several cities and states. Your support and votes could help NFTE receive a donation of more than $150,000 from the Starbucks Foundation. That’s a lot of coffee and a ‘Grande’ investment in the future of thousands of young people.

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  • Opportunity for Action

    March 27, 2012  |  0 comments

    Microsoft, a NFTE supporter and partner, along with the International Youth Foundation today unveiled Opportunity for Action, Preparing Youth for 21st Century Livelihoods.

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  • Keeping Young Entrepreneurs Engaged is a Community Effort

    March 21, 2012  |  0 comments

    Written by NFTE Philadelphia Executive Director Sylvia Watts McKinney.

    Recent data shows that high school graduation rates have improved. But the high school dropout rate in the U.S. still stands at 8.1 percent, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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  • Enterprising Billionaires

    March 7, 2012  |  0 comments

    What do 5 of the top 10 people on Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans have in common? Their wealth is self-made.  Collectively, the five are worth about $175,000,000,000 (that’s Billion).  Looking at the 5 others reveals that the entrepreneurial spirit runs deep in their families. All together, the top 10 billionaires are worth $291 billion.

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  • NFTE 2012 Winter Newsletter

    February 9, 2012  |  0 comments

    NFTE’s 2012 Winter Newsletter is now available. Find out how some NYC summer program students continue getting lessons in entrepreneurship and the reason they’re busy preparing for the month of April.

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