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The Money Guide for Young Entrepreneurs Online Course Series

The Money Guide for Young Entrepreneurs Online Course guides learners through each of the lessons featured in The Money Guide for Young Entrepreneurs Activity Workbook. Each lesson provides detailed instructions on how to create innovative ideas and convert them into new products, services, digital media content and impact solutions.

Leadership

6 Lessons

Lesson 1. Explore Your Community

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LESSON 1. EXPLORE YOUR COMMUNITY
This lesson will help learners discover which socio-economic conditions are negatively impacting their community and map the local resources that are available to help address, reduce and/or eliminate them.
Career Awareness

4 Lessons

Lesson 2. Define Your Solution

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LESSON 2. DEFINE YOUR SOLUTION
In this lesson, we teach learners how to develop a winning personal and/or professional mission statement (i.e. elevator pitch) that describes how their impact solution will address, reduce and/or eliminate the socio-economic conditions that may be negatively impacting their community.
Leadership

5 Lessons

Lesson 3. Build Your Team

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LESSON 3. BUILD YOUR TEAM
In this lesson, we teach learners how to form a Junior Executive Management Team and assign them with roles and responsibilities required to complete their STEAM Investigative Process.
Workforce Readiness

5 Lessons

Lesson 4. Map Your Value

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LESSON 4. MAP YOUR VALUE
In this lesson, we teach learners how to calculate and use the contribution values of your STEAM Skills to create an operating budget for their STEAM Investigative Process.
Workforce Readiness

7 Lessons

Lesson 5. Manage Your Assets

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LESSON 5. MANAGE YOUR ASSETS
In this lesson, we use activity worksheets to help learners calculate the value of their time and illustrate why time is considered one of the most valuable resources they have.
STEAM Careers

6 Lessons

Lesson 6. Share Your Success

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LESSON 6. SHARE YOUR SUCCESS
In this lesson, we teach learners how to market, sell and distribute the products, services and content they create during their STEAM Investigative Process.
Entrepreneurship

4 Lessons

Lesson 7. Package Your Skills

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LESSON 7. PACKAGE YOUR SKILLS
In this lesson, we teach learners how to package and present the results from the high-demand employability skills they used to develop, implement and complete their STEAM Investigative Process.
STEAM Careers

5 Lessons

The STEAM Investigation Process

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THE STEAM INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS
In this lesson, we teach learners how to research, design, plan, coordinate and evaluate anticipated results from an impact solution they created.

Leadership

6 Lessons

Lesson 1. Explore Your Community

NEXT Steps Youth Entrepreneur Program

LESSON 1. EXPLORE YOUR COMMUNITY
This lesson will help learners discover which socio-economic conditions are negatively impacting their community and map the local resources that are available to help address, reduce and/or eliminate them.
Career Awareness

4 Lessons

Lesson 2. Define Your Solution

NEXT Steps Youth Entrepreneur Program

LESSON 2. DEFINE YOUR SOLUTION
In this lesson, we teach learners how to develop a winning personal and/or professional mission statement (i.e. elevator pitch) that describes how their impact solution will address, reduce and/or eliminate the socio-economic conditions that may be negatively impacting their community.
Leadership

5 Lessons

Lesson 3. Build Your Team

NEXT Steps Youth Entrepreneur Program

LESSON 3. BUILD YOUR TEAM
In this lesson, we teach learners how to form a Junior Executive Management Team and assign them with roles and responsibilities required to complete their STEAM Investigative Process.
Workforce Readiness

5 Lessons

Lesson 4. Map Your Value

NEXT Steps Youth Entrepreneur Program

LESSON 4. MAP YOUR VALUE
In this lesson, we teach learners how to calculate and use the contribution values of your STEAM Skills to create an operating budget for their STEAM Investigative Process.
Workforce Readiness

7 Lessons

Lesson 5. Manage Your Assets

NEXT Steps Youth Entrepreneur Program

LESSON 5. MANAGE YOUR ASSETS
In this lesson, we use activity worksheets to help learners calculate the value of their time and illustrate why time is considered one of the most valuable resources they have.
STEAM Careers

6 Lessons

Lesson 6. Share Your Success

NEXT Steps Youth Entrepreneur Program

LESSON 6. SHARE YOUR SUCCESS
In this lesson, we teach learners how to market, sell and distribute the products, services and content they create during their STEAM Investigative Process.
Entrepreneurship

4 Lessons

Lesson 7. Package Your Skills

NEXT Steps Youth Entrepreneur Program

LESSON 7. PACKAGE YOUR SKILLS
In this lesson, we teach learners how to package and present the results from the high-demand employability skills they used to develop, implement and complete their STEAM Investigative Process.
STEAM Careers

5 Lessons

The STEAM Investigation Process

NEXT Steps Youth Entrepreneur Program

THE STEAM INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS
In this lesson, we teach learners how to research, design, plan, coordinate and evaluate anticipated results from an impact solution they created.

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JEM Team Leadership 101

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An exciting online course that teaches young innovators and entrepreneurs how to use The Community On Demand™ Creative Economy to identify local resources, develop products and services that meet the needs of their community, and manage their Junior Executive Management (JEM) Team.

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How To Manage A JEM Team

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How To Sustain The Community On Demand™ Creative Economy

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1 Lesson

Intro To The Community On Demand Creative Economy

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The Community On Demand™ Immersion Process

Introductory course that illustrates how the interconnected, project-based learning programs of Community On Demand™ transform critical thinking, critical reasoning and life skills into readiness skills for college, career, business & community reinvestment.
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The Community On Demand Digital Media Network Orientation

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The Role of Local Contributor Networks

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The STEAM Capability Report

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VIP Executive Coaching & Leadership Development

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Collaborative partnership program that creates new business development opportunities within the Community On Demand Creative Economy to help young innovators and entrepreneurs build, launch and market their products, services and new business ventures.

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Different Approaches For Critical Thinking

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The Community On Demand™ LEAN Canvas Model

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The Stakeholder’s Dilemma

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The Strategist Mindset

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The ATWOOD Model Marketing Cooperative & Agritourism Program

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Join our private business-to-business marketing cooperative to strengthen your pool of resources and develop a master plan and use strategy for your land. Members will learn how to convert every square inch of their land into revenue generating profit centers by integrating our signature Community Involvement Growth Strategy into their existing operation.

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Agritourism Training & Development

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Business Administration & Support Services

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Intro To The ATWOOD Model

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Member Services

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The Blueprint

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The Valuation

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I am proud to introduce Community On Demand™ to the Black home school community. It serves as an innovative and non-traditional way to not only teach our scholars business leadership and entrepreneurial principles but actually allows them to apply these principles in real time with real results.

QUEEN TAESE SNOWDEN,THE QUEEN OF BLACK HOMESCHOOLING

Founder and CEO of the Liberated Minds Black Homeschool & Education Institute. Educator, passion-preneur and homeschool mother 20+ years.

Skills Assessments, Experiential Learning & Social Enterprise

Skills Assessments, Experiential Learning & Social Enterprise

Do Better.Think BIGGER!

The NEXT Steps Online Training Academy​

Our low enrollment fees encourage year-round lifetime learning

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ONLINE COURSE SERIES

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The Money Guide for Young Entrepreneurs Online Course Series

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JEM Team Leadership 101

COMING SOON!

The Community On Demand™ Immersion Process

Introductory course that illustrates how the interconnected, project-based learning programs of Community On Demand™ transform critical thinking, critical reasoning and life skills into readiness skills for college, career, business & community reinvestment.​

The Community On Demand™ Immersion Process

Introductory course that illustrates how the interconnected, project-based learning programs of Community On Demand™ transform critical thinking, critical reasoning and life skills into readiness skills for college, career, business & community reinvestment.​

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VIP Executive Coaching & Leadership Development

COMING SOON!

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The ATWOOD Model Marketing Cooperative & Agritourism Program

COMING SOON!

Do Better. Think BIGGER!

Do Better.
Think BIGGER!

The NEXT Steps Online Training Academy

Introductory course that illustrates how the interconnected, project-based learning programs of Community On Demand™ transform critical thinking, critical reasoning and life skills into readiness skills for college, career, business & community reinvestment.

Introductory course that illustrates how the interconnected, project-based learning programs of Community On Demand™ transform critical thinking, critical reasoning and life skills into readiness skills for college, career, business & community reinvestment.