The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)

Through entrepreneurial education, the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship ( NFTE, pronounced "nifty" ), a nonprofit organization, teaches low-income young people ages 11 through 18 ) to become economically productive members of society by improving their academic, business, technology and life skills. NFTE is widely viewed as a world leader in promoting entrepreneurial literacy among youth.

Founded in 1987 by Steve Marriotti ( former business executive and entrepreneur ) while he was a public school teacher in New York's South Bronx, NFTE began as a dropout prevention and academic performance improvement program for students who were at risk of failing or quitting school. Coming his business background with his desire to teach at-risk students, Steve discovered that when low-income youth are given the opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship their innate "street smarts" can easily develop into "academic smarts" and "business smarts." Through entrepreneurship, you see that what they are learning in the classroom is relevant to the real world. To date, NFTE has worked with more than 40,000 young people.

In addition to programs for youth, NFTE offers accredited training for educators and youth workers on how to teach entrepreneurship to students. Known as "NFTE University," training programs are held in partnership with leading academic institutions where they have trained and certified more than 2,000 teachers / youth workers from 43 states and 14 countries to date.

The Price Institute has been involved in supporting the NFTE University and a variety of programs to develop in young people an entrepreneurial spirit.

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