8th Grade students from Taos Charter School, who were winners in the 2007 Business Plan Competion.

The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education http://www.cfed.org One of the oldest organizations in this business and one of the few sites that puts their material online for folks to use. The site has cases, success stories, projects, and activities accessible from here.

http://www.aspeninstitute.org Aspen Institute Youth Entrepreneur Strategy Group: (YESG) Promotes a strategy for entrepreneur education for students; covers policy implications;

About.com's Kids in Business List: Like this list, Ed Martin's gives a variety of places, mostly those which try to help adults help kids start their own businesses.

Junior Achievement: The grandparent of free enterprise training in the schools has a series of programs for K-12 (actually an annual series for K-6) which talks more about economic issues than starting a business. THAT gets reserved for older kids.

National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship: Another old, established player in the business, NFTE has an adult-lead program for training teens in entrepreneurship. One of the most widely used curricula in the country, NFTE has expanded into camps and more diverse publishing. They have an online teaching program, called BizTech, but its only available to kids through the sponsorship of adult-run organizations.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation: Has a series of programs to promote youth entrepreneurship ranging from Mother and Daughter Entrepreneurs in Teams (MADE-IT) to an entrepreneurship merit badge they developed with the Boy Scouts. Again the focus are on programs delivered through adults. They have a curriculum called The New Youth Entrepreneur targeted at teens, as well as a Mini-Society that starts as young as 8.

Kidsway.com: Offers a (printed, not online) magazine and online bulletin boards for students, parents and teachers on entrepreneurship.

Kids Inventing Toys: A website about a summer camp. What's neat to look at are the toys campers invent.

Nebraska Student Enterprise Zone: Some ideas for student lead businesses, ala the Junior Achievement model.

Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE): Is focused on college aged students and is one of the major national organizations underlying college "entrepreneurship clubs." Saint Louis University has a SIFE chapter. To see what they're up to, click here.

Opens.org: Is a Quaker program focused on start-up education for middle school students.

OPENAIR-MARKET NET: The World Wide Guide to Farmers' Markets, Street Markets, Flea Markets and Street Vendors - from Steve Balkin, Alfonso Morales, and John Cross provides a neat listing of websites tied into these low-cost forums for selling. Not strictly youth oriented, but as a place for youth to try their selling skills with little up-front cost, its a good resource to know.