Schools & community organizations
Explore a school-based elective or community fellowship that brings real entrepreneurial experience to your young people.
Partner with us
Build the conditions for ownership.
More young people should have access to the experiences, relationships, and resources that turn an idea into an asset. Let’s build that access together.
A shared ambition
Your expertise.
Their possibility.
Corporate partners & public agencies
Connect young creators to expertise, customers, networks, and real-world opportunities.
Philanthropic institutions
Support the conditions for equitable access to ownership and the thoughtful expansion of OITF’s program models.
For school and district leaders
Our school-based curriculum is intentionally mapped to the New York State Portrait of a Graduate. It supports academic and postsecondary readiness, career-connected learning, and applied financial literacy—while students build portfolios and authentic performance evidence through communication, innovation, critical thinking, and real-world problem-solving.
See the full curriculum alignmentFor NYC school and district leaders
What a School Partnership Includes
A school-day elective in which students build real ventures—and the evidence of learning that comes with them.
- Instruction
- An ownership curriculum connecting identity and story, financial decision-making, and entrepreneurship, mapped to New York State’s Portrait of a Graduate.
- Student experiences
- Customer research, prototyping, budgeting and pricing, Founder Stories, and presentations to real audiences.
- Venture support
- Feedback from mentors and entrepreneurs as students develop, test, and refine their ventures.
- Events
- Opportunities for students to present and sell beyond the classroom, such as the Ownership Is The Future Expo.
- Evidence of learning
- Portfolios that can include research records, prototypes, budgets, websites, presentations, and college and career plans.
- School coordination
- Planned with each school’s leadership team.
Course credit, schedule, grade eligibility, staffing, and cost are set with each school; they are not standard terms. Ask us what this could look like at your school.
Start a partnership conversationThe invitation
No one builds a future alone.
Ideas become possibilities when young people have relationships, resources, and real opportunities. Here is where you fit.
Schools & districts
Bring a school-day elective where students build real ventures and portfolio evidence.
Plan a school partnershipFunders & philanthropy
Invest in the conditions that give more young people access to ownership.
Support the workMentors & builders
Share what you know about creating, selling, financing, and persisting.
Become a mentorCommunities & customers
Show up for student ventures—buy, give feedback, open a door.
Meet the founders
Start a partnership conversation
Let’s build
what comes next.
Tell us about your organization, the young people you work with, or the expertise and opportunities you can bring.