Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) Greater Los Angeles
Nonprofit
NFTE Greater LA provides entrepreneurship education programs designed to inspire young people from low-income communities to stay in school, to recognize business opportunities and to plan for successful futures.
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Submitted Ideas
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Idea about how to make LA a better place to learn, submitted by this organization in the 2015 challenge.
Make LA the best place to LEARN
One of five LA2050 Goals
Our region offers opportunities for lifelong learning, allowing all residents to contribute their skills, talents, and abilities to society.
By 2050, all Los Angeles students will have access to early education programs, every high school student will graduate and be college and career ready, and all parents will be engaged and empowered to direct their children’s learning. LA will capitalize on its concentration of higher education facilities to foster new businesses, advance research, and spur innovation.
Los Angeles Youth Entrepreneurship Pathway Initiative
NFTE Greater LA proposes to expand our program enrollment to reach additional youth in the Los Angeles community. We also propose to build a pathway and continuum of support between our current program offerings: Exploring Careers (middle school), Startup Tech (middle school app development program), Entrepreneurship (high school), Startup Summer (alumni accelerator) and Alumni Programming that addresses the NFTE alumni ongoing needs for support in their business, career and education goals. Learn more
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Idea about how to make LA a better place for Income & Employment, submitted by this organization in the 2013 challenge.
The 2013 Challenge featured categories used at My LA2050 to categorize organization impact.
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Innovation Saturday for Los Angeles Youth
Together with our partners, NFTE Greater Los Angeles proposes to address youth unemployment in the African American and Latino communities, by creating a youth entrepreneurship and innovation conference for 300 youth, to be held at USC in partnership with USC Marshall’s Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. The event will reach under-served Los Angeles teens with the goal of promoting youth entrepreneurship in the face of high unemployment rates for African American and Latino youth in lo... Learn more