MHS Entrepreneurs Make Donation to the Friends of Memorial Park

Mansfield High School’s Entrepreneurship students successfully ran a small business selling Mansfield string bags during the winter trimester. Students presented their business proposals to each other and decided as a group to pursue the string bags as their products. They worked together to market the business and increase sales, and nearly sold out of string bags after just a week! After analyzing their finances, they determined that $200 would be donated to the Friends of Memorial Park. In addition, students made $200 in loans to aspiring entrepreneurs through the website Kiva.org. Kiva allows people to lend money to low-income and underserved entrepreneurs in eighty-two countries around the world.

Since the inception of this “small business” project in Mrs. Prester’s Entrepreneurship classes, students have donated just over $6,000 to local charities and organizations, while also funding future trimesters of Entrepreneurship students to complete the same project. The project was born from a grant awarded by the Mansfield Education Foundation to increase classroom innovation and authentic learning experiences.

If you would like to learn more about making microloans to entrepreneurs through Kiva, please visit our Kiva referral link: http://www.kiva.org/invitedby/mhsentrepreneurs. For each person who signs up, the MHS Entrepreneurs will be able to make an additional microloan!