4 Organizations Helping to Cultivate Young Entrepreneurs
Future Executives, Inc.
Future Executives, Inc.’s (FE) mission is to serve a global community of aspiring entrepreneurs, primarily 8 to 25 years of age, through 4 golden keys: education, mentoring, funding and social networking. They are a resource center that allows children and young adults to explore, cultivate and hone entrepreneurial behaviors and personal development using a multi-media platform.
A non-profit organization founded in 1989 by Simone-Monet Wahl, FE partners, collaborates, and develops workshops, lesson plans and symposiums to support the process. They offer entrepreneurship training and support, multi-media virtual learning and volunteering platform, children & parent advocacy and to date have supported thousands of children and their families. According to Wahl, their top three goals are:
- Share– Through the virtual and in-person materials and programs, they share the vast knowledge and resources of many people to children and young adults. They are attracting innovative tech savvy partners to work with them to expose future leaders to the latest digital and technological knowledge and career opportunities. The blogging area of the website best allows them to mass share ideas and concepts as it translates into over 40 languages
- Learn– The website launched in 2009 and offers skill and career development resources as well as virtual volunteers narratives. Virtual volunteers share their experiences via content profiles, blogs, and/or radio interviews. The media platform educates and inspires future leaders and the entrepreneurship games teach the importance of how to build and maintain an enterprise
- Build-No one person can do all of this alone, which is why FE relies upon their vast network of people and resources. By developing a virtual community, they are cultivating, a forward-thinking, support base that offers the essential golden keys (via mentoring, education, funding and social networking) needed to create and sustain successful future leaders.