Our Mission: To challenge and engage children across the cultural and economic spectrum through experiential learning programs that teach the basics of business, entrepreneurship, and money management, and promote teamwork and leadership in the classroom.

History:
In 1992, our founder, venture capitalist Tim Draper, was asked by his eight-year-old daughter to describe what he did at work every day. Excited by the opportunity to explain entrepreneurship and business to a third grader, he used his daughter’s enthusiasm for making friendship bracelets to create an activity in which students learn to start and run their own business.

From initial funding to marketing campaigns and financial statements, the program allowed students to not only understand how business works, but enabled them to experience it first-hand. The need and demand for BizWorld’s hands-on, cross-curricular, project-based approach to learning quickly became apparent, and in 1997, the BizWorld Foundation was established to make BizWorld programs available to all educators and effectively involve the community in the education of youth.

Contact people:

Kristen Mjoseth, Program Coordinator, (phone), (email) Catherine Hutton, Executive Director, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (415) 863-2072

Address:

444 De Haro Street, Suite 121 San Francisco, CA 94107 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.bizworld.org

Directions:

Headquarter office in San Francisco but you can volunteer at any elementary school.