What is Lemonade Day?
Lemonade Day is a FREE citywide event designed to teach the Twin Cities' youth how to start, own and operate their own lemonade business. Youth in grades k-12 learn fundamentals of sound business and financial management including how to create budgets, purchase supplies, serve customers, set profit-making goals, repay investors, and give back to the community. On Lemonade Day, thousands of budding entrepreneurs set up lemonade stands—providing an opportunity for businesses and families to partner together to train the next generation of entrepreneurs through a fun, family activity. Like any good business, Lemonade Day entrepreneurs are encouraged to give back some of their proceeds to a charitable cause of their choice. Best of all - participants keep all their hard earned profit!
Lemonade Day is Simple
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Community Event
Lemonade Day requires a partnership of community leaders, sponsors, volunteers, and underwriters. It incorporates every aspect of the community, including families, businesses, youth organizations, community-based groups, and schools. The foremost objective is to empower youth to take ownership of their own lives and become productive members of society—the business leaders, social advocates, volunteers, and forward-thinking citizens of tomorrow.
On May 2, you're either selling lemonade or buying lemonade!
Lessons Learned
Youth are hungry for information about how to succeed in life, and Lemonade Day gives them the tools that they need to reach their goals. We build on youth’s desire to know about money—how to earn it, how to save it, and how to invest it well. They are highly motivated to achieve because they keep all the money that they earn! Lemonade Day is a unique opportunity to transform academic theories about how to succeed into personal achievement. Lemonade Day creates real-life entrepreneurs who are adept at organizing, managing, and assuming the risks of a business. Several other factors make Lemonade Day a beacon for successful enterprise, including broad ownership by the community and the productive relationships forged between youth, schools, community groups, and businesses. Principals and teachers love the fact that the curriculum is free and fun for the students; neighborhood leaders are impressed by the positive, upbeat message; and businesses recognize the long-term benefits of building a core of youth who have been inspired and transformed by their work experience.
Additional Information
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