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YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP ALLIANCE LAUNCHED

02/28/2010

The newly formed national policy strategy group, the Youth Entrepreneurship Alliance (YEA), announced a national initiative advocating entrepreneurship education to engage students in pursuit of their personal goals.

YEA is intent on making waves throughout the nation to ensure that more students have entrepreneurship education experience than ever before.  The members have come together as leading organizations in their field to jointly provide leadership for the youth entrepreneurship movement.

Initial YEA members include The Burton D. Morgan Foundation, the Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education, the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED), DECA, E*TRADE, Future Business Leaders of America-Professional Business Leaders (FBLA/PBL), Goldman Sachs, JA Worldwide, NFIB-Young Entrepreneur Foundation, National Association of Community College Entrepreneurship, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, and the United States Small Business Administration.

The YEA will promote the importance of youth entrepreneurship education to national leaders who can serve as advocates and help the field expand.  YEA agrees with Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke in his support for entrepreneurship on January 19, 2010, when he said:

'There is simply no better vehicle for job creation than fostering entrepreneurship.  Entrepreneurs create approximately three million jobs a year.  Over the last three decades, startups, firms less than five years old, have accounted for nearly ALL increased employment in the American private sector.  As America continues to work through this exceptionally trying recession, we can look back on our history and say with confidence that we will get through it - and when we do, entrepreneurs will be leading the charge.'

For more information, visit www.yealeaders.org.