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 Celebrates International Women’s DayMarch 8, 2022It’s International Women’s Day! BUILD has been led by powerful, fearless women for the last 20 years! BUILD all started when four students asked BUILD Founder, Suzanne McKechnie Klahr, to […]Read More
BUILD Launches New Monthly Giving ProgramMarch 5, 2022BUILD We Must! By joining our monthly giving community, you are helping to build a new generation of future leaders and change-makers, thus diversifying our workforce and creating a more […]Read More
BUILD Metro DC Welcomes Aaron Swinton!February 18, 2022 BUILD Metro DC Associate Board welcomes new board member, Aaron Swinton! Aaron is inspired by the work that BUILD does to support students in under-resourced communities build businesses and make […]Read More
