Kid Entrepreneur Opportunities

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Zach Frechette
Former Editor in Chief of GOOD

December 9, 2009 • 6:19 pm PST
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Kid Entrepreneur Opportunities
Schools could provide mentoring, infrastructure, and micro-financing from the community for projects that kids dream up as part of their studies.

This is part 32 of a continuing brainstorm on the future of cities, inaugurated at the CEOs for Cities Velocity conference in September, 2009. We’ll post a new idea each day until we run out, at which point we’re counting on you to come up with something smart. Do you have a good idea for improving your city? Add it in the comments below, or tweet it to @GOOD with hashtag #cityideas—we’ll publish the best ones. Tomorrow’s idea: Affordable Healthcare.

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