Entrepreneurship Training

Pivotal Point offers a twelve week entreprenership training class developed specifically for youth. The curriculum, designed by the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, covers basic business concepts including:

* Market research & business selection
* Tracking costs & revenues
* Marketing & advertising
* Negotiation & pricing
* Business plan creation, etc.

Each youth receives an entrepreneurship BIZ bag filled with useful tools needed to complete the course including a textbook, workbook, entrepreneurs’ profile (which highlights entrepreneurs such as Russell Simmons, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates etc.), a calculator and day planner. At the end of the training, youth completing the program will have a business plan and be able to compete for start-up money for their business.

Our goal is to give youth an opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship, in order to develop their innate “street smarts” into “academic smarts” and “business smarts”. Youth who participate in our program begin to unlock their unique entrepreneurship creativity, gain a greater understanding of the free enterprise system, improve their quality of life and dare to prepare for a promising future.