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April is Financial Literacy Month! And I want to take a break on our journey to recognize it. While some organizations have been highlighting the importance of financial literacy for years, it wasn’t until 2003 that Congress made it official, and President Barack Obama kicked it off this year.
Young entrepreneurs were honored by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) at its Dare to Dream awards gala, Wednesday night. The event recognizes NFTE student members who have demonstrated unique entrepreneurial spirits, according to the global organization which creates programs, curricula and training for schools and organizations on entrepreneurship.
Four years ago, Tim King, CEO and founder of Urban Prep Academy, led a group of like-minded education, business, and civic leaders to found Chicago’s only public all-male, all-African American high school. Their mission was clear: to get all their graduates into a four-year college or university.
For students in Wilma W. Stephenson’s culinary arts classes at Frankford High School in Philadelphia, cooking is more than a skill. “It is the key to their futures,†says Stephenson. She’s not exaggerating. In the 11 years her graduating seniors have participated in the Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) Cooking Competition for Scholarships (www.ccapinc.org), Stephenson’s pupils have racked up more than $3 million to be put toward paying for college, earning $637,000 in 2009 alone.
"To paraphrase an old saying, it will take a village to make our children employable and our nation competitive."
