Young Entrepreneur Resources
The following website resources and publication may be beneficial to use in conjunction with this lesson:
Additional Link: http://www.paloalto.com/sba/course.cfm
- Kentucky Small Business Development Centers
http://www.ksbdc.org/
The Kentucky Small Business Development Center provides consulting and training services that help existing business owners and potential entrepreneurs succeed. Their services include: one-on-one management consultations, training workshops, market research, loan packaging help, assistance with financial projections and information needed to make informed business decisions
- Springwise
www.springwise.com
Springwise scans the globe for the most promising business ventures, ideas and concepts that are ready for regional or international adaptation, expansion, partnering, investments or cooperation. We ferociously track more than 400 global offline and online business resources, as well as taking to the streets of world cities, digital cameras at hand. To ensure true ‘global’ coverage, the central office is in close contact with more than 8,000 Springspotters in over 70 countries worldwide. Springwise's weekly newsletter, to which you can subscribe for free, is sent to more than 100,000 business professionals in more than 120 countries.
Kentucky Student Ventures Corporation has partnered with Vicki Wiederkehr with Cardinal Young Entrepreneurs in Action (CYEA) to co-present entrepreneur training sessions. Vicki is an entrepreneur, author, college instructor and speaker. Vicki is author of Cardinal Rules: Financial Resources for Young Adults. Her book is a step-by-step tutorial on starting and managing a low-risk and low-start-up small business. Chapter headings: Creativity 101; Success 101; Money Matters 101; eBay 101; eBay 201; Marketing 101; and Fine Tuning Your Business
KSVC Projects
BRAC/WIRED Demonstration Project for a Small Business Accelerator
KSVC has partnered with the North Central Education Foundation, Western Kentucky University and the McConnell Technology & Training Center, Advanced Strategies, Inc., SCORE, Lincoln Trail Innovation Center and BurtWalker.com. The program is a demonstration project to establish a Small Business Accelerator in Radcliff, Kentucky. The project is a $250,000 grant from the Lincoln Trail Area Development District and the U.S. Department of Labor. KSVC will provide four half-day sessions for high school and college students. Two sessions will be held on Saturday May 16 in Bardstown and the other two sessions on May 30 in Radcliff. The training sessions willbean overview of entrepreneurship and low-cost and low-risk business start-up.
Summer Youth "Green" Initiatives
Bluegrass Goes Green - Overview
Bluegrass Goes Green is a new summer youth program and competition that engages teacher-led student teams, ages 16-21, to assess the current “greenness” of each community in the BGADD region and develop a plan for the community to “Go Green.”
The six-week program is designed to encourage creativity and innovation by challenging five-member Youth Green Teams in 17 counties to make a difference with green initiatives in their communities, county and state.
Green Teams, employing economically-disadvantaged youth, will compete to develop the best county green plan. Each member on the winning team will receive a laptop computer and Lexmark printer (printers donated by ConnectKentucky). All Green Team participants will be paid $7.25 per hour and work 30 hours each week with the program.
Where and How it Works
Bluegrass Goes Green is sponsored by the Bluegrass Area Development District (BGADD). The summer youth program will employ a student team in each of the 17 counties served by BGADD, including Anderson, Bourbon, Boyle, Clark, Estill, Fayette, Franklin, Garrard, Harrison, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mercer, Nicholas, Powell, Scott and Woodford.
Kentucky Student Ventures Corporation (KSVC) is creating and managing the new Bluegrass Goes Green new summer youth program for the BGADD.
Currently, KSVC is recruiting access to schools and teachers as “Green Team Coaches” to lead and supervise their county’s youth Green Team for the six-week program.
What Bluegrass Goes Green Teams Will Do
Each team will research and develop a plan for each county that includes one or more “green” initiatives from the following topic areas:
Energy Efficiency/Conservation
- Changing light bulbs
- Changing toilets with low-flow toilets
Environmental Improvement
- Recycling/Solid Waste
- Litter Abatement
- Greenhouse Gases - Ozone Improvements
Wildlife Preservation
The program engages the teams to learn about their communities as part of their green plan development. For example, the students request a tour of city to learn how government works and ways their community more is already going “greener.” This experience will teach students about leadership and how what they are doing this summer will help their community.
The Bluegrass Development District (BGADD)
The Bluegrass Goes Green initiative was awarded to KSVC by the Bluegrass Area Development District as administrative and financial agent for the Workforce Investment Board.
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