Empower Bay Area Students With "MBA for a Day"

The core  of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) is to inspire students to fulfill their true potential.  Whether that means applying for jobs after graduating high school, starting their own company, or going to college, our program equips students with the knowledge that, through hard work and dedication, each of those goals is attainable.  NFTE alumni are 60% more likely to want to go to college and are 45% more likely to want to start a business after they graduate from our program.  Our objective is to provide programs that inspire young people from low-income communities to stay in school and find their path to success.

As a part of these ongoing efforts, NFTE Bay Area recently held our annual "MBA for a Day" program to help youth from these areas learn first-hand what getting an MBA can do for your career.  32 NFTE students spent a day touring the University of San Francisco (USF) campus, followed by networking and lunch with an MBA student where they had an opportunity to interact and receive advice regarding college life.  NFTE students attended undergraduate and graduate level business classes and then were debriefed and discussed what they learned from this experience.  Collegiate volunteers from Challenge for Charity and USF Professor Dayle Smith also worked with our students to teach them firsthand about the college experience.  This type of hands-on training was funded in large part by donations through the Give For Youth platform, donations which will help those 32 students dream of a better future, and perhaps of higher education.