Help Julian Empower Young Entrepreneurs

Update: The Original Kids Business Fair is now over and was a big success! So we're doing another one!

Here is a video that shows what the fair was like. All new donations will be used to fund the NEXT Kids Business Fair!

Here you can read more about my first Kids Business Fair, why I wanted to do it and how I was planning to make it happen:

Hello!

My name is Julian Businessman and I'm 10 years old. Since I was 4, I have been helping out at neighborhood shops and running my own businesses, such as a lemonade stand, a hot chocolate stand, and designing and selling my own Julian Businessman merch line.

I believe that no business is a true business if they don't donate some of their profits to try to help the world. That's why I have raised more than $37,000 for good causes, including $20,634.98 for Best Friends Animal Society.

When I do business, I feel a rush of exhilaration in my veins that courses through me, leaving happiness and excitement in its wake. I want other kids to be able to experience that same feeling and help them get the skills to be successful in business and life.

That's why I am organizing my very first Kids Business Fair, where kids can set up their own stands, sell their own products, make their own profits, and give 30% of their net profits to a charity of their choice.

It will be on June 15th (Father's Day) from 10am-5pm at the Grand Bazaar NYC , which is a well-known market in my neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that is also a non-profit that supports local public schools. I have rented a couple of tents in a prime location with lots of foot traffic. In one day, if the weather is nice, you can get up to 22,000 visitors to the fair.

I found 15 Kid Vendors who will sell their own self-made products and donate part of their net profits to a charity they care about.

I have been training the Kid Vendors on Zoom in all the things I have learned from my lifelong experience running lemonade and hot chocolate stands. I teach them things like planning their inventory, how to pick their price point, customer service, and marketing, so that they have a successful experience.

I am paying for everything besides the Kid Vendors' personal expenses (so, the space rental, the tents, table, and chair rentals, the marketing costs, printing costs, etc.), so now I am looking for support to help me cover those costs.

If you like the idea of giving kids opportunities to learn about entrepreneurship, please donate here.

I will send updates on how it's going and what I'm spending your money on. This is the biggest project I have ever done and a really big risk for me. I am scared but I'm going for it.

Thank you and Sincerely,

Julian