BizKidz

05/12/2023

TOMORROW! Come Support Greenbelt's Kidpreneurs!

4th- and 5th-grade students will be selling their homemade items, from jewelry to picture frames, at Greenbelt Elementary School PTA'S Spring Fair tomorrow, May 13, 1-4 PM. You'll enjoy food and games as well! FMI email [email protected] or visit sites.google.com/view/gespta

03/24/2023

Apply by Wednesday, March 29, 2023 to register kids ages 6 to 14 to sell their product or service at The Acton Children's Business Fair at Dupont Circle in DC. Past businesses have included greeting cards, a pet-sitting service for exotic birds, a photobomb booth, and a lemonade stand raising $ to protect honeybees. This Fair is one of 455 around the world, serving 23,022 young entrepreneurs in 206 cities and 12 countries. FMI and to register:

The Acton Children's Business Fair of Washington, DC inspires children to discover their inner entrepreneur.

05/03/2017

As a community-supported program, we'd like the community to know that its time, cash and in-kind donations were put to good use.

You'll find scans of all receipts, checks, gift cards, etc. here: https://tinyurl.com/krvdlb4

Budget, ledger, time & travel log, inventory log: http://tinyurl.com/lllj6ng (click tabs at bottom of sheet to see each of these)

Final bank statement: http://tinyurl.com/lhumee9

Questions, comments, complaints, concerns? Please send 'em to founding director Tim Cohen-Mitchell at [email protected].

Budget PROGRAM BUDGET Program Name: BizKidz- Greenbelt, MD Pilot Program Organization Name: VineCorps, Inc. Period: 8/ 31/ 2016-3/ 31/ 17, Total Planned Budget, Total Actual Budget, Total Difference, Budgeted Cash, Actual cash, Difference cash, Budgeted In-Kind, Actual in-kind, Difference in...

04/28/2017

Many thanks to Matt Arbach and the Greenbelt News Review (our favorite co-op newspaper, published weekly without fail since 1937!) for carrying this story about the BizKidz! Here's a link to view/print a PDF version of the article:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz_cODfnIw88YThUOEQ2WmxkT0E/view?usp=sharing

04/04/2017

Session 21: Cold out again, so we moved biz practice indoors again. And since we didn't have the bike on hand, we "cheated" and used a plug in blender. Thanks to two of our parents who dropped in and bought a smoothie!

03/30/2017

Hundreds turned out in support of Journey to Happiness' first annual Fair! Thanks to Journey's parents, Brian and Camille, for inviting the BizKidz and to the school and the basketball team for helping us haul our gear and accommodate our booth!

03/30/2017

BizKidz made and sold 37 smoothies at the Journey to Health & Fitness Fair on Sunday afternoon. Filling in for Kidz unable to attend were several 1st and 2nd graders who helped the show go on and did a great job. Sales of $185.00 netted the Kidz $135.19, bringing their total net to date to $266.31, or 67% of their $399 field trip fundraising goal. Just 36 smoothies shy, one more sales event could put them over the top!

03/13/2017

Many thanks to the Coop for their $25 gift card donation today to help BizKidz buy smoothie ingredients! They also invited the Kidz to sell smoothies on their entrance ramp (date & time TBA)! A big thanks to Bob Davis and Joe Gareri at the Coop making this possible!

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A member owned supermarket & pharmacy - with a deli, bakery, soup bar, extensive beer & wine, local & organic produce, meats, seafood & locally-made favorites

03/12/2017

Session 20: Bike videos! We watched videos about Pedal People, a co-op hauling biz that collects and hauls garbage, compost, and even helps people move -- USING BICYCLE TRAILERS!; an Indian farmer who uses an old bike to pump water from a pond to irrigate his garden; a shop in Ghana that employees youth to build sturdy bike frames from bamboo; and even a thrilling 60 mph mountain descent by racing cyclists during a Tour de France. We then imagined all kinds of ways of using bikes to make a living and a difference.

We experimented with smoothie recipe measurements to improve taste, consistency and reduce waste. And we practiced using special color-coded paper strips test bacteria levels in the smoothie biz' washing station.