At the event, the North Texas Community Foundation will award cash prizes totaling $10,000. The Fort Worth Donation Station event will be at Sundance Square, 420 Main St., from 4-7:30 p.m., with remarks from Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price and performances by local performing arts groups. Last year, more than 450 Tarrant County-based nonprofits benefited from the event. The effort lets nonprofits gain exposure to – and start relationships with – new donors while spreading awareness of their causes. North Texas Giving Day, the largest Giving Day in the nation, is an online donation event for North Texas charities. 22, and its founder, Communities Foundation of Texas, is hoping to top last year’s record-setting $33.1 million in donations to benefit North Texas nonprofits. North Texas Giving Day is back for its eighth year on Sept. Youth Entrepreneurs serves 3,000 students annually, operates in six states and has nearly 15,000 alumni. Youth Entrepreneurs is launching 38 programs elsewhere this fall, including 17 high schools in the Phoenix area nine in Kansas and Missouri one in Louisville, Kentucky two in Detroit and one in Enid, Oklahoma. Johnson CTE Center in Crowley, The Class in the Parks in Arlington, Fort Worth Trimble Technical High School, Dallas Skyline High School and Responsive Ed Premier Lewisville, Irving South, Fort Worth and Granbury.
“By equipping high school students with business smarts, Youth Entrepreneurs prepares youth for success following high school, whether that be in school or in the workforce,” said Grant Mankin, the program’s Dallas-Fort Worth area director. Participants learn money management and business skills. Students in the year-long elective program work with teachers and community business advisers to create business plans and market their products to classmates. Youth Entrepreneurs, a national nonprofit organization, helps students develop their own business idea from concept to the marketplace. Starting this school year, students at eight Dallas-Fort Worth high schools can enroll in Youth Entrepreneurs, a business and entrepreneurial education program for at-risk students.
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