Empower youth with entrepreneurial experiences and training.
Empower youth with entrepreneurial experiences and training.
A community approach to “emancipative mobility”
Sown Emancipation provides access to entrepreneurial learning in K–12 schools, libraries, and community spaces.
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Our mission is to unlock entrepreneurial potential and nurture economic mobility by embedding entrepreneurial development into the K–12 educational ecosystem. We focus especially on historically marginalized youth, believing that early and sustained entrepreneurial experiences expand traditional college and workforce readiness models through what we call “emancipative mobility” preparation.
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Our vision is grounded in the belief that introducing entrepreneurship early—and sustaining it throughout the K–12 years—is a powerful lever for long-term equity and opportunity. Our ultimate goal is to empower the next generation to build thriving businesses that are equitable, fundable, profitable, and sustainable.
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Sown Emancipation takes a unique, community-centric approach to youth entrepreneurial development—one that requires a paradigm shift towards seeing youth entrepreneurship as a reality of the present as opposed to a uncultivated hope of the future. Our programming helps youth build business-skills and acumen through real-time practice, partnership, and experiential exposure. We believe that hands-on learning creates greater pathways out of intergenerational poverty and fosters more equitable educational and economic outcomes.
“I wish I had Sown Emancipation when I was in school. It would have given me the guidance and resources I needed to start my own business at a young age.”
“Sown Emancipation stands as a beacon of hope and opportunity for youth in high-poverty communities by envisioning how to address educational and economic disparities with real-time opportunities for real-world business experiences and development.”