What is NFTE and How Do They Impact the Community

 Sources: NFTE.com , Business.Time.com

NFTE- Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship, is an international non profit organization, providing entrepreneurship training and classroom based education, to young people from low income urban communities, to find their path to success.

1. Assist in business plan writing
2. Offers volunteers from local businesses
3. Instills hope and improves student lives through entrepreneurship education
4. Inspires students to graduate, go to college and embark on successful careers
5. Students have a head start by receiving real world education that is relevant to running a business
6. Offers Biz Camps which are 1-2 weeks intensive day camps for teenagers aged 13-18 featuring topics on: return on investment, supply and demand and marketing. Participants also receive wholesale trip grants and enter into business plan competitions where participants can receive awards and prize money.

  Jabius and Anthony Williams were living in Southeast D.C. with their mother and 7 other family members in a cramped 2 bedroom apartment. Everyday the boys walked miles to an Exxon gas station to pump gas. Typically the boys said they earned thirty to fifty dollars, which they used to help support their mother.

  One day the boys met Men Loflland, a caring business teacher at Suitland High School. Mena got the brothers into her entrepreneurship class sponsored by NFTE. The brothers applied their street knowledge to the classroom setting and became excellent students.

  With the help of business volunteers and philanthropists the brothers started a Hip Hop clothing line. Today Jabius is a scholarship grant student at Southeastern University and operates Jabius Bam Williams Art&Photography company. Anthony Williams operates a youth mentorship program.