MHS Entrepreneurs Make Donation To Mansfield Animal Shelter

Mansfield High School’s Entrepreneurship students successfully ran a small business selling Mansfield winter hats during the fall trimester. Students presented their business proposals to each other and decided as a group to pursue the winter hats project. They worked together to market the business and increase sales, and sold out of hats after just a couple weeks of sales! After analyzing their finances, they determined that $300 would be donated to the Mansfield Animal Shelter. In addition, students added a new component to their project this trimester. They made two microloans to aspiring entrepreneurs in the Philippines 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 $5,500 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 here. For each person who signs up for an account using our link, the MHS Entrepreneurs will be able to make an additional microloan!