Weeks 15-17: Entrepreneurialism
There are many reasons that people decide to venture down the path of business ownership. Maybe it’s the allure of setting their own hours. The chance to call fuzzy slippers and pajama pants “work clothes.” The opportunity to do business the way it should be done. But for all, there’s one inarguable reason: the chance to finally put energy into building our dream instead of someone else’s.
I spent the past three weeks interning with a small business owner whose mission is to provide schools and communities with high-quality food and nutrition education. Using a train-the-teacher model, she teaches youth about the benefits of real foods and how the food system and their food choices affect their personal health and the world around them.
One of my assignments was to put together a flyer for a Food Sustainability and Advocacy Summer Camp for Teens. The camp is co-hosted by her company, An Ounce of Nutrition, and Sprout City Farms.
In partnership with LiveWell Colorado, I gave a Nutrition Detective presentation to a 100+ 6th-graders at West Middle School. The kiddos loved my “rethink the drink” and “blubber burger” activities. Thank you Cooking Matters Colorado for teaching me everything I know about community nutrition education for kids! 🙂
For another account, Re:Vision, I put together 30+ nutrition/recipes cards for the produce being grown this summer in the community gardens. Re:Vision is a non-profit dedicated to building a world where every community has the right to grow their own food. Their mission is to develops resident leaders, cultivate community food systems, and grow self-sufficient economies.
We also did some consulting with Third Way Center, a program that provides assistance to high risk, mentally ill, disadvantaged and often homeless adolescents, and their families, and North Metro Community Services, an organization that serves as the entry point for all services provided to individuals with developmental disabilities in Adams County, Colorado.
Despite the incredible amount of work that goes into running a small business, the opportunity to turn your passion into a reality is awesome. I know that small business ownership is in my future.
Until next week,
S
