Young Americans Center For Financial Education

International towne is a one-of-a-kind program that introduces middle school students to the financial realities of the global marketplace. After weeks of classroom lessons and activities, the students-turned-world-citizens come to international towne to run the sixteen-country world for a day, experiencing the economic concepts of global trading, currency exchange, importing and exporting, and cultural values. Participation: 7,822 students during 2024.

Young americans center for financial education also offers a variety of entrepreneurship training programs through our youthbiz division. Serving denver-area youth ages 11 to 18 with targeted focus on those from low-income, underserved schools and neighborhoods, youth learn the foundations of business and entrepreneurship enabling them to identify opportunities and to develop products and services that create value. Youthbiz offers two programs, startup and out-of-the-box. Startup is an entry level program designed to teach youth the basics of entrepreneurship including need identification, prototype development and business pitch. Youthbiz out-of-the-box takes students further into the production and sales cycles with real retail opportunities, such as our youthbiz marketplace. In 2024 youthbiz extended its reach beyond denver, bringing its vibrant marketplace to colorado's western slopes for the first time in years, serving 3,616 students.

The organization also conducted a variety of community outreach programming including money matters classes, tours and presentations. Rural young americans center for financial education, llc in wray, colorado offers rural young ameritowne to schools in eastern colorado and across the borders of kansas and nebraska. Students attended rural young americans in 2024. In addition, young americans center for financial education runs weekly day camps throughout the summer. Themes for the camps include personal finance and banking, free enterprise, global economics and entrepreneurship. Summer camp participation was 818 youth in 2024.