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Fireball Carnival and Mr. Lemonhead

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| Lemonade Day Friends, Lemonade Day Fun, News, Triangle
February 21, 2012

What do Lemonade and “Fireball” Candy have in common? FUN, FUN AND MORE FUN! On Saturday January 28th at Dorton Area in Raleigh, North Carolina the “Y” Guides for the YMCA of the Triangle hosted the “World’s Largest Fireball Carnival”. It was everything you and your family could ever want—mechanical...
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It All Started with a Turtle: Revitalizing American Business

by Mandy Graessle
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| Entrepreneur Stories, Lemonade Day Friends
February 20, 2012

Michael Holthouse, Founder, guest blogged for Spark Energy. Read the full post here. Who knew that what started as an innocent question from a child asking for a pet turtle would turn into a life changing opportunity for hundreds of thousands of children across the country.Four years ago when...
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Educating our Youth

by Mandy Graessle
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| News
February 3, 2012

Michael Holthouse Founder, Prepared 4 Life Education reform advocates frequently argue that improving our schools is vital to keeping America competitive with the rest of the world in math, science, and technology. I’d add another field to that list: entrepreneurship. The link between education and entrepreneurship...
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Lemonade Day Champion and Entrepreneur on Global Entrepreneurship Week

by Mandy Graessle
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| Entrepreneur Stories, Indianapolis, News
November 15, 2011

Lemonade Day offers taste of entrepreneurship I had a lemonade stand when I was a kid. Many, actually. I remember how I felt when I made my first dollar. Not the dollar I got from my first allowance or from the Tooth Fairy, but the dollar that came from my...
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Celebrate with us!

by Mandy Graessle
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| Entrepreneur Stories, Lemonade Day Fun
November 10, 2011

Next week is Global Entrepreneurship Week, the world’s largest celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch startups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare … and we’re celebrating! YOU’RE INVITED! Now – Monday! Make a video or picture of yourself saying: I am...
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The Girl Scouts Mean Business … and we like it!

by Mandy Graessle
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| Lemonade Day Friends, News
October 27, 2011

So excited about the news that Girl Scouts are adding badges like Money manager, Budgeting, Financing my future, Good credit, and Philanthropy. From Forbes today – and they point to some other great ways to get kids interested in finances like Junior Achievement’s camps, and the iPhone app Kids Money. Of course, I’d add Lemonade Day to the list...
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Lemonade Day remembers …

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| Getting To Know You
September 8, 2011

Yesterday a coworker turned and asked me, “Where were you on 9/11?” While every year I take time to reflect on that day, with the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 on Sunday, it is even more on my mind. There is so much chaos today – wild fires ravaging my...
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Catching up with Kasey

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| Getting To Know You
August 30, 2011

This week we caught up with Lemonade Day rockstar, Kasey. Here are some things I bet you didn’t know about the gal who provides support for the 31+ Lemonade Day cities … from budding graphic designer to Access know-it-all, Kasey totally geeks out over all things design and technology! ...
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Open For Business Tomorrow

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| News
August 19, 2011

Tomorrow is National Lemonade Day. No, not the one we celebrated on May 1. Not the one where we taught 120,000 kids how to start, own and operate their own business. But tomorrow your street corners and driveways will undoubtedly we dotted with fledgling start-ups. And we support them. We...
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Happy Friday!

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| Witty Words Wednesday
August 5, 2011

Wednesday we attempted to find the wittiest fan through a caption contest on our facebook page. It’s something we dubbed Witty Words Wednesday and we think it will make an appearance pretty regularly given all the awesome photos we get of young entrepreneurs. So … who’s the winner of our...
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