The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)'s mission is to provide entrepreneurship education programs to young people from low-income communities. Our vision is that every young person will find a pathway to prosperity.

NFTE achieves its mission by:

1. Creating engaging, experiential curricula and tools to improve academic, business and life skills.
2. Training and supporting teachers and youth professionals.
3. Partnering with schools, community-based organizations, and post-secondary institutions.
4. Offering volunteers meaningful opportunities that connect students to real world experiences.
5. Linking the educational and business worlds in the classroom and beyond.
6. Providing services to program graduates.
7. Demonstrating outcomes of entrepreneurship education through research.
8. Building public awareness to expand entrepreneurship education.

Since 1987, NFTE has served more than 186,000 young people. We currently have more than 1,000 active Certified Entrepreneurship Teachers, and programs in 21 states and 13 countries outside the U.S.