Lemonade Day

Lemonade Day is a community-wide educational program that provides youth with the opportunity to learn how to start, own and operate their first business lemonade stand. Youth are provided with free educational materials through the support of generous local sponsors. They are taught, with the help of a parent, teacher, or mentor, how to set goals, create a product, prepare a budget, seek an investor, choose a location, design a marketing plan, and provide customer service. On Lemonade Day, the young entrepreneurs open for business in public locations throughout the city. They keep the money they earn and are encouraged to spend some, save some for the future, and share some by giving to a local charity of their choice.

For these young entrepreneurs, the experience of setting a goal, creating a business plan, executing their plan, and evaluating their results sparks an explosion of new confidence in their abilities, and for many, a new vision of possibilities for the future.

If you are a parent of a 3rd to 5th grader register their lemonade stand below!

Once each lemonade stand is complete there is a chance to win an Amazon gift card!
Participants must share their business results through a survey sent out to opt into this Contest in order to participate. They may do so by checking the box next to "YES!" I want to be entered into my city's drawing for an Amazon gift card.

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Want to help mold the business owners of tomorrow? Become a business coach or help with sponsoring to bring the event to IL! There are two ways you can participate.

1. Offer your business location to host a participants lemonade stand & Provide individualized time to help guide the process of completing pieces of their business plan.
2. Sponsor -
Main Squeeze Presenting Sponsor: $5,000 includes VIP exposure on education curriculum, marketing material in lemonade day backpack, logo placement on the Official Lemonade Day website, SBA website and on several digital billboards in the months leading up to Lemonade Day. The presenting sponsor will also have the opportunity to be featured on SBA Speaks, the SBA podcast!

Celebration Sponsor: $3,000 includes mentions at the celebration and signage. Logo placement on all T-shirt, backpack, marketing materials, social media and SBA website. The opportunity to speak about their business during the celebration. The opportunity to help with handing out awards during the celebration.

Investors: $1,500 includes logo placement on education curriculum, lemonade day backpack, T-shirt and marketing material, social media and SBA website
**All sponsors will be able to put a coupon, flyer or swag in the backpacks that go directly to the participants. With about 400 participants last year, that is a lot of direct marketing!**

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For Questions on this program or to get your company access to supporting this program, reach out to SBA Community and Finance Manager Amanda Moreau at amoreau@schaumburgbusiness.com.