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  • Financial Knowledge Can Be Economic Destiny

    May 14, 2012  |  0 comments

    When it comes to financial literacy, most Americans are alarmingly uninformed. According to a 2009 study, adults earned only a C grade when their financial acumen was assessed, little better than high school students, who mainly received failing grades. In this Huffington Post article, Randi Weingarten explores the opportunities that exist to increase financial literacy across the United States.

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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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  • Never Forget a Follow Up

    March 15, 2012  |  0 comments

    Everyday brings an onslaught of activity, and we are all inundated with new to dos. Staying in touch with a client, pursing a lead, or following up with a potential employer can easily fall by the wayside. Don’t let that happen.

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  • Courses to Take in College for Entrepreneurship

    May 5, 2011  |  2 comments

    For many young people today the interest in becoming an entrepreneur is higher than it has typically been in the past. The urge to become your own boss and start your own business is an idea that many have found that they are passionate about. While it’s good that you now know what you want to do with your future, what plans do you have to make this dream a more successful one?

    If you are currently in college (or are thinking about attending) than picking the right courses is a good place to start with your goal, but which ones do you choose?

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  • Eduardo Saverin’s Take on the Importance of Entrepreneurship

    November 10, 2010  |  0 comments

    Recently Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook, has had the extraordinary privilege of experiencing a portion of his life portrayed by Hollywood on the big screen in the film “The Social Network.”   Now only a select few can actually say that they’ve had the chance to see this, and many of those people seem to have mixed feelings about whether they were exhibited in the most accurate of lights.

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  • Top 5 Reasons Why It’s Great to Be a NFTE Teacher

    October 8, 2010  |  0 comments

    This week we’ve reached out to Julie Silard Kantor, our Executive Director in NFTE’s Greater Washington D.C. program office, to see why it’s so great to be a NFTE teacher. She gives us the top 5 reasons why here:

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  • New Rules for the New (School) Year

    September 13, 2010  |  0 comments

    Everyone uses a new calendar year to set new goals for themselves – lose weight, read more, do something new! You should use the school year as an opportunity to do the same.

    In these first few weeks, reflect on those school-related issues that you want to address: Where have you excelled in the past? What do you definitely need to work on? And, how will you avoid the pitfalls that tripped you up before?

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  • Back to School: Managing the College Process

    September 8, 2010  |  0 comments

    In honor of the new school year, we’re dedicating a series of posts to the questions of education.

    First up – you might have just set foot in high school for the first time this month, but it’s already time to look forward and start planning your next steps. In this case, that means college.

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  • Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard

    July 30, 2010  |  0 comments

    Margaret Fuller once said: “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” Statistics show that 83% of low-income students read below the proficient level by the end of third grade. As a result, about 6.6 million low-income children are at a risk of not graduating from high school on time. We all know how important an education is to the young people of today and what better way to jumpstart a lifetime of entrepreneurship then by diving into a good book? The team at NFTE has come together to review some great books on the growing field of entrepreneurship and share our thoughts with you!

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  • BizCamp: Where Fun Pays

    July 12, 2010  |  0 comments

    Seventy-four students from across the country came together at the Next Generation Venture Fund, an intensive BizCamp held at Duke University in Durham, NC.  NFTE is proud to contribute its curriculum to this year’s program, held from June 19th to the 26th, where students worked together in business plan groups to learn the basics of starting and operating a small business.

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