Shifting Careers blog: Keeping Kids Off the Streets, Through Business
Today, an international organization called the National Foundation for Teaching EntrepreneurshipNFTE, was founded in 1988 by Steve Mariotti, a public school teacher, anti-dropout specialist and serial entrepreneur who says that teaching entrepreneurship to low-income kids serves a few purposes: it teaches skills like math, reading, writing and critical thinking; it provides kids with a vision of how they can control their own futures; and it can also keep kids off the streets and in school.