By Steven Gordon, Lemonade Day National President

Lemonade Season is here.  Lemonade Season is ripe and ready for harvesting. Now is the time for parents, teachers, community leaders, and other adult mentors to sign up youth of Kindergarten through Fifth Grade age to participate in Lemonade Day in their local community.   

Lemonade Day Participants in Washington D.C.

When adults encourage kids to register for Lemonade Day, they are also registering themselves for Lemonade Day. And that’s good for many reasons! There is no cost to register, and kids who host a lemonade stand will have the opportunity to save some, spend some, and share some of their profits with a cause that matters to them.

Within just a few short weeks this Spring and through the hot summer days, business owners in cities and towns of all sizes in the United States and Canada will be serving a wide variety of lemonade recipes from  stands of many types  – from a simple card table to an elaborate white picket fence design such as the one that, Brooke Dawson constructed with her parents’ help in Bryan College Station, Texas, last May.

Brooke Dawson, Bryan/College Station, TX

With the aid of workbooks and adult volunteers, Lemonade Day teaches kids valuable leadership, business, and financial lessons that will positively impact them for life: planning, product development, site selection, marketing and promotion, staffing, customer service, financial management, and charitable giving.  Kids will benefit from an experience that they will remember for years to come, and they will have flexed their character-building muscles in the process!

Here's a sample of our Workbook:

https://lemonadeday.box.com/s/68jdiznnobs8exhq0j733wazzxey9nd3

Please follow this link to some of our Sweet Success stories from Lemonade cities:  https://lemonadeday.box.com/s/eve9lpsfkw3dfct31poaopndq1txyeef

Please follow Lemonade Day on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Volunteer to be a mentor in your local community – even if you don’t have a child.  Please rally friends and relatives to register kids who have the potential to start a business of their own and create jobs for others. Help others experience the amazing power of Lemonade Day.

Lemonade Day works, and our future is bright!  Lemonade Day leaders clearly see that we have an excellent opportunity to engage 250,000 adult mentors and millions of youth in our Lemonade Day youth entrepreneurship program within the next five years. 

I value your support now and always. I welcome your questions, comments, and ideas anytime. Please email me at steven@lemonadeday.org. 

About Lemonade Day 

Founded in Houston in 2007 by Michael and Lisa Holthouse, Lemonade Day is a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching every child across North America the business and financial skills that are the key ingredients of entrepreneurship.  By learning these skills early in life, children will be better prepared to be successful, financially healthy adults.  Through our fun, hands-on program, kids K-5 are empowered to start their very own business—a lemonade stand—and experience the feeling of earning real money, using 100% of their profit to spend, save and share based on their own goals.

Lemonade Day is hosted in 66 territories in North America and is growing. Over the past 10 years, we have served more than 1 million kids in our kid entrepreneur programs. Within the next five years, Lemonade Day leaders estimate that 250,000 mentors and millions more kids will be hosting lemonade stands in North America and on other continents throughout the world.

Please visit LemonadeDay.org to learn how to participate in Lemonade Day in your city or to donate locally or nationally. Lemonade Day very much appreciates the support from our national sponsor Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, who is joined by our in-kind sponsors Ready Ice and True Citrus.