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Over 150,000 kids are registered in 36 cities to participate in this year’s Lemonade Day! Are you thirsty, yet? On Lemonade Day, everyone has a job – you are either selling lemonade or buying lemonade. We’ve made it easy to find a stand near you! Each yellow marker represents a child’s stand that has pinned [...]

Lemonade Day joins the YEC to urge our decision makers to move beyond the negative talk and politics to introduce real solutions to our nation’s biggest problem: How do we overcome the epidemics of youth unemployment and underemployment to #FixYoungAmerica? “Pass the baby” and tell us your solution. If you’re like us and think Lemonade [...]

Last week, John Stossel wrote about the trials and tribulations of opening a lemonade stand . . .  “Want to open a business in America? It isn’t easy.” It sparked a fire storm of comments. Read the full article here. Photo Credit: Jeff Jowdy/ Jowdy Photography This isn’t the first time a story like this [...]

  Michael Holthouse   Founder, Prepared 4 Life   Education reform advocates frequently argue that improving our schools is vital to keeping America competitive with the rest of the world in math, science, and technology. I’d add another field to that list: entrepreneurship.   The link between education and entrepreneurship might be unclear to some, [...]

Lemonade Day offers taste of entrepreneurship I had a lemonade stand when I was a kid.  Many, actually.  I remember how I felt when I made my first dollar.  Not the dollar I got from my first allowance or from the Tooth Fairy, but the dollar that came from my own enterprise, my own first [...]

So excited about the news that Girl Scouts are adding badges like Money manager, Budgeting, Financing my future, Good credit, and Philanthropy. From Forbes today – and they point to some other great ways to get kids interested in finances like Junior Achievement’s camps, and the iPhone app Kids Money. Of course, I’d add Lemonade Day to the list as well … An Early [...]

Tomorrow is National Lemonade Day. No, not the one we celebrated on May 1. Not the one where we taught 120,000 kids how to start, own and operate their own business. But tomorrow your street corners and driveways will undoubtedly we dotted with fledgling start-ups. And we support them. We support all lemonade stands. We [...]

BuildASign.com has created a special store for Lemonade Day! AND is offering 50% off for you and your lemonade stand creations; from bumper stickers to big banners, it’s a cinch to create professional and funky advertising for your unique lemonade. AND, on top fo the 50% discount, a portion of the proceeds are being donated [...]

Meadow Bob at Boys and Girls Country of Houston In the wee hours of the morning … or late last night, we received a wonderful shout out in the Wall Street Journal;  a piece about youth entrepreneurship when summer jobs for teens were expected to still not recover from record lows. Of course, Lemonade Day [...]