The Youth Entrepreneurship Alliance (YEA) is a national policy strategy group that is emerging in 2009-10
to continue to bring the message of the importance of youth entrepreneurship education to the attention of national leaders
that can be advocates and help the field expand. It started as 12 national organizations that emerged from the
Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy Group, an Aspen Institute initiative, that ended in June, 2009.

Initial member organizations include:
Burton Morgan Foundation, Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education, CFED, DECA, Inc, E*Trade, FBLA-PBL,
Goldman Sachs, JA Worldwide, NFIB-YEF, NACCE, NFTE, and US SBA.
Additional members are welcome to join the new initiative.

The Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy Group (YES GROUP) was a collaborative initiative of the Aspen Institute
in partnership with the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) and E*TRADE FINANCIAL. (2006 - 2009) We convened prominent leaders from the fields of education, entrepreneurship and business, public policy, the media, and philanthropy to explore the promise of, and obstacles to, implementing youth entrepreneurship education
in low-income communities nationwide.

Our 35 members represent thousands of teachers
and hundreds of thousands of youths throughout the U.S. and abroad:

Goldman Sachs Foundation • Harvard School of Education • Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education
QuestBridge Crenshaw High School, LA • Communities In Schools • Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development • Babson College • Miami-Dade County Public Schools • DECA Inc. • OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
KIPP: Knowledge is Power Program • Brandeis University • The Coleman Foundation • America’s Promise
The Alliance for Youth • The Burton D. Morgan Foundation • W.K. Kellogg Foundation • National Human Services Assembly • JA Worldwide • National Governors Association • The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship • E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corporation for Enterprise Development • VSP Capital • Education Sector and Eduwonk.com
National Education Association • Kathryn W. Davis Foundation • Juma Ventures, Inc. • Philadelphia University
Miami Dade College • Alliance for Excellent Education • E-Prep • National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship

During 2008 the Project held a Reception on Capitol Hill to introduce their final Policy Paper. The following items are also posted on the Consortium website, http://www.nationaleweek.org/articles

CAPITOL HILL AND BUSINESS LEADERS "SAY YES" TO YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Read and share this new Policy Paper supporting Entrepreneurship Education nationwide.
View the video from the Press Conference from Capitol Hill presenting the YESG Policy Paper.