Entrepreneurship is the hook. College and career success is the goal.
BUILD is an entrepreneurship program for underserved high school students that teaches them how to build their own business while becoming the CEO of their own lives.
Bridging Communities
We connect our young entrepreneurs to a network of volunteer mentors from the business world who light a path along the way, creating access and opportunity.
Every year in America, there are half a million, brilliant kids dropping out of high school.
Entrepreneurship means opportunity – for the students BUILD serves and for all of us through a more diverse, equitable and interconnected community.
BUILD.org Announces $15M Movement to Launch Generation EntrepreneurMarch 26, 2021 BUILD is poised to create a world where entrepreneurship education is taught to every child in America. The BUILDing Gen E campaign utilizes three pillars to build entrepreneurial mindsets and skills for youth in communities that are often overlooked and underestimated. Read More
March 25, 2021 is declared BUILDFest Youth Entrepreneurship Day in Washington D.C.March 23, 2021BUILD is honored to share this incredible news: Mayor Muriel Bowser has proclaimed March 25th 2021as BUILDFest Youth Entrepreneurship Day in Washington D.C. We hope that this will give visibility […]Read More
BUILD Honors Internationation Day of Elimination of Racial DiscriminationMarch 21, 2021https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyryXj8chSg&t=6s&ab_channel=BUILD”I have a calling to do something and be the change.” – Saribelle, Young Entrepreneur of Feel Temple – BUILD NYC Listen to our BUILDFest 2021 changemakers speak on how theyRead More
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