Community Partners

If you want to see a list of Community Partners who have entered into agreement to refer Young Entrepreneurs to YBA, click here.

Who are Community Partners?

Community Partners are:

  • Organizations that provide entrepreneurial training and mentoring to young people who have sound business concepts, and the desire and skills necessary to start their own business.
  • Those that help identify Young Entrepreneurs that are ready and eligible to apply for YBA support.
  • Organizations that are willing to work with YBA to make sure their programs meet standards that produce successful and responsible business people who want to strength the economic health of their local community.

What is the Role of Community Partners?

The roles of Community Partners are to:

  • Help YBA find young people with the character, commitment and training necessary to take on the responsibility of starting and growing a business.
  • Help extend the reach of YBA’s mission into a diverse range of communities. YBA wants to leverage the excellent resources already providing services to their communities.

What is Youth Business America’s Commitment?

Youth Business America’s Commitment is to:

  • Help our partners grow by providing access to YBA services to their members who successfully complete training.
  • Seek applicants who complete entrepreneurial training from Community Partners and are referred by those who have coached or taught the young entrepreneur, and know them
  • Help entrepreneurs who have not had a chance to develop a positive credit history.
  • Help those whose route to entrepreneurship may have included some false starts, before they developed the maturity and character to be successful.

How YBA will work with Community Partners

  • If you provide entrepreneurial training to young people in your community that you believe would qualify for YBA’s programs, please contact us. We will review the programs you offer, and if they meet our standards, we will develop a Memorandum of Understanding to outline the expectations of our relationship.
  • If you work with young people, and would like to develop a training program for Entrepreneurship, visit our Resource Center Page or contact us. We can help you identify some of the different resources available for program development.
  • As our program develops, we hope to offer additional services to help expand our network of Community Partners and provide other training for potential entrepreneurs.