YBI’s programs creates positive youth development change in Urban communities.
YBI students change the culture, and their own attitude towards their business potential.
YBI’s Youths:
1) OBTAINS their own financial security without the involvement of criminal related activities
2) GAINS a system of support within their field of interest
3) POSITIVELY INVESTS in their community as future business leaders.
Workforce Development Program
YBI’s Workforce Development program shapes the lives of Fairfield County’s next generation of leaders from disadvantaged backgrounds with the opportunity to learn professional business etiquette, job skills, resume and career building.
Students develop a deeper understanding about the process of developing, obtaining, and maintaining the daily functions in a workplace.
Now also located in Stamford. Partnered with C.O.R.N.E.R.S Community.
Student group: High School
Summer Entrepreneurship 101 Program
We train youth in Business Development, Finance & Accounting, Marketing & Branding, Communication and Etiquette, and Public Speaking. Through entrepreneurship sessions, students explore all the options of researching and bringing a business idea to a full business plan.
Our students learn basic business terms along with finding their strengths and weaknesses. Students then create their business SWOT Analysis, Mission Statements, Governance, Operations, and Finance structure.
We also address professional communication and etiquette. We stress the importance of their first impression in building a business relationship.
At the end of the term, students complete in a business competition “Shark Tank” like event with community based and sector judges who award business seed money to the student group.
Student Group: High School
YAP | Youth Advancement Program
YAP engages youth through interactive activities to enable them to reach and expand their potential and exposure to advance in society.
Students utilize their creative and critical thinking skills throughout the after school program. We create a unique, open space for children between ages 10-14 to comfortably express themselves.
Active mentors serve as program facilitators to build trust with each individual involved by acting as positive role models in a fun-filled environment.
After School Program Activities:
Student group: Middle School
YBI has partnered with Positive Directions to work with youths in our local community
preventing substance misuse and foster mental wellbeing.
Student programming addresses the mental health impact on Norwalk high school students by
offering support and skills groups, prevention trainings, and social-recreational activities.
Programming runs through Summer – Fall 2023
Youth Business Initiative, Inc.,
a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization
NTEE Code
Business, Youth Development (O53)
304 Main Avenue #147
Norwalk, CT 06851
25 Van Zant Street,
Norwalk, CT 06855
programs@ybict.org
(203) 952-9580
