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This portal shares lesson plans, web resources, and numerous other links to assist in the development of entrepreneurs or entrepreneur education.

DPI and Wisconsin Youth Entrepreneurs Network form partnership press release

"People start businesses every day, but how do they succeed? In BizWorld, students will understand what it means to be an entrepreneur. In this project, students work in teams to form friendship bracelet companies."

Developed by the U.S. Small Business Administration, this site targets young entrepreneurs who want to start, operate, and grow their business.

Serial entrepreneur Anthony Delmedico is on a mission to revamp the core curriculum for grades 4-12 with his E2 petition for entrepreneurship education, touting the importance of education reform for our country. Entrepreneurship is the driving force for America to become the global leader in GDP, create jobs, and launch new generations of innovators.

Is an organization that organizes teams of youth to develop businesses to help their communities. It is one of the few websites to actually have online material of use to prospective youth entrepreneurs, including advice on getting started success stories. It looks like YouthVenture partnered with Ashoka.org which is one of the leading organizations supporting social entrepreneurship.

Kiva is a site that allows people to give partial microloans to entrepreneurs in third world countries.

This link was shared at the Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies conference on March 21, 2011.

As part of their global studies curriculum during the 2010-2011 school year, students in Kimberly Clarkson's 6th Grade class at Sidwell Friends Middle School in Washington, D.C. explored ideas related to entrepreneurship. Students participated in and reflected on online simulation activities, researched and discussed mission statements of established businesses, and learned about and experimented with developing basic business concepts, including options for funding and marketing.

WWBIC is a statewide economic development corporation that provides quality business education and financing to Wisconsin's entrepreneurs and small business owners.

The mission of WAN is to build early-stage capital capacity throughout Wisconsin, increasing the number and amount of equity investments in Wisconsin's entrepreneurs.

An organization dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth, and success of small businesses.

Through the management and technical assistance provided by the Women's Business Centers (WBCs), entrepreneurs, especially women who are economically or socially disadvantaged, are offered comprehensive training and counseling on a vast array of topics in many languages to help them start and grow their own businesses.

Entrepreneurship curricula for youth as well as agricultural entrepreneurs. Eleven chapter curriculum and teacher training available.

The NGLCC is the business advocate and direct link between lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans-gender (LGBT) business owners, corporations, and government, representing the interests of more than 1.4 million businesses and entrepreneurs.

MBA Research, formerly MarkED, provides numerous curricular resources and activities in the area of entrepreneurship, along with many other business functions essential to an entrepreneur.

This foundation is working to further understand the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, to advance entrepreneurship education and training efforts, to promote entrepreneurship-friendly policies, and to better facilitate the commercialization of new technologies by entrepreneurs and others, which have great promise for improving the economic welfare of our nation.