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YBA to provide start-up business services to NFTE graduates

Youth Business America and the National Institute for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Inc. (NFTE) will partner to create a peer network for high school and young adult graduates of the NFTE Business Education Program.

About NFTE

NFTE’s programs teach entrepreneurship using its exciting, experiential curriculum. There are versions for middle school, high school, and young adult students, with corresponding reading levels and complexity. NFTEs metric for assesing efficacy has led to a highly successfull program that has generated strong quantitative data for the support of youth entreprenuership initiatives as a positive stimulus on local communities and economy (see Impact page for more details).

Since 1987, NFTE has reached more than 280,000 young people, and currently has programs in 21 states and 12 countries. NFTE has more than 1,500 active Certified Entrepreneurship Teachers, and is continually improving its innovative entrepreneurship curriculum.
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Advisory Board

William Reese

William_Reese_Portrait Bill Reese was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of IYF in January 2005. He first joined IYF in May 1998 as its Chief Operating Officer. He provides leadership and oversight for the management of the Foundation’s operations and programs supporting positive youth development in more than 70 countries and territories.

Before joining IYF, Bill was President/CEO for 12 years of Partners of the Americas, the largest citizen-run, voluntary organization working to promote economic and social development in the western hemisphere. He was deputy director of the Latin American and Caribbean Region in the Peace Corps, before heading a special task force that managed the international celebration of the Peace Corps’ 20th anniversary in 1981. Previously he served on the boards of the Independent Sector, Eureka Communities, Amigos de las Americas, the Brazilian American Cultural Institute, the Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the International Development Conference, the Rondon-Roosevelt Center (in Rio de Janeiro), Fundación para la Educación Superior/USA, COLEAD (Coalition for American Leadership Abroad), ChildHope International, and the Friends of the Art Museum of the Americas (OAS). He was vice chair of the Debt for Development Coalition and Finance for Development, Inc.

Bill has strong interest and experience working with the business community, and in building strong public-private partnerships. He is a member of the International Workforce Development Advisory Committee of the Management and Training Corporation, the largest Job Corps contractor in the U.S. In 2009, Bill was elected to the board of the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation, guiding its philanthropic and community investment programs around the world.

Sir Tom Shebbeare

Tom joined the UK branch of World University Service, an international development agency specialising in refugee resettlement, in 1973 before becoming General Secretary of the British Youth Council in 1975. From 1980-1987 he was a member of The Council of Europe (Strasbourg).

In 1988 he was appointed by The Prince of Wales to be the first Director of The Prince’s Trust; he became its Chief Executive in 1999 on its incorporation by Royal Charter.

In 2004, he took up his current position as Director of The Prince’s Charities - the largest multi-cause charitable enterprise in the UK with interests in Opportunity and Enterprise (of which The Prince’s Trust is one), Education, Health, The Built Environment & Responsible Business. Last year the group raised and spent over £122m in the UK and overseas. Additionally six Social Enterprises, including “Duchy Originals” have a combined turnover of £90m pa.

He is a Trustee of In Kind Direct (UK), UK Skills, The Turquoise Mountain Foundation, Queens College (London), The Nations Trust (South Africa), Traditional Arts Ltd, Sentebale (Lesotho), CIM Investments Ltd and The School Food Trust.

Tom acts as Chairman of the Foundations’ Forum which brings together the UK’s largest private charitable foundation with an annual spend in excess of £700m.

He was Knighted in the Queen’s New Year Honours 2003.

Lawrence Wilkinson

Lawrence Wilkinson is Chairman of Heminge & Condell (H&C), an investment and strategic advisory firm, and Co-Founder of Global Business Network (GBN). Through H&C, Lawrence is involved in venture formation work, and as a director and counselor to a number of companies that he helped create, among them: Oxygen Media, Inc, GBN, Ealing Studios, Design Within Reach, Particle Therapeutics, Mercantila, and Character.

Lawrence has authored and edited numerous publications and Harvard Business School case studies ranging from Public Broadcasting in the U.S. (Harvard Business School Press) to The Cambridge Milton (Cambridge University Press). He is the author of How To Build Scenarios (Wired, 1995) and of The Future of Shopping (forthcoming). At the same time, Lawrence continues to offer strategic counsel to a number of corporate clients and governments around the world. Named a "Jedi Knight of Innovation" by Fast Company, Lawrence is a widely consulted and cited authority on strategic issues; he is a frequent speaker in public, industry, and corporate settings, and is active in a variety of not-for-profit organizations.
 
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