YES Business Plan Challenge

YES Business Plan Challenge a 3-day free workshop teaching 6-12th grade kids how to take their ideas and turn them into business plans for cash and prizes.

YES 5 Day Program Business Plan Challenge

YES teaches the foundation of entrepreneurship and marketing. The youth receive culinary and barista training.

YES 6 Week

Business Plan Challenge

6 week program YES staff teaches  the foundation of entrepreneurship, marketing and everything in the other programs. The students visit companies, learn of job and business opportunities. 

Original Sponsor

Rutgers University CUEED is an original sponsor of YES Business Plan Challenge and help us launch the program in Newark, NJ a few years ago. 

Original Sponsor

The New Jersey Devils embraced YES and the City of Newark in 2013 with its new ownership team. The alliance between YES and the NJ Devils has grown each year.

New Sponsor

One of the largest foundations in the world with a mission helping youth prosper and have every opportunity to succeed. Funding education, family development and healthy outcomes.

YES Sponsors

The City of Baltimore is making a major investment in their youth by sponsoring several different youth programs including entrepreneurship to help them prosper for the betterment of Baltimore.

YES Sponsors

Coca-Cola Consolidated sponsors a few YES Business Plan Challenges. We have students tour their bottling facility to learn about business opportunities, jobs the facility have and how beverages are assembled..

YES Sponsors

Comerica Bank's Sr. VP of External Affairs Irvin Asford has been watching YES since we started in Dallas. He like that we were teaching young people financial statements and thinks its vital to successful futures. Irv introduced YES to Still I Rise Organization and its been a great partnership.