Because of Hardy Girls Healthy Women, I feel connected. I feel real. I feel strong. Most importantly, I feel like I am really making a difference in our world, one step at a time. -Adriana
Because of Hardy Girls Healthy Women, I feel connected. I feel real. I feel strong. Most importantly, I feel like I am really making a difference in our world, one step at a time. -Adriana
Abrams, Rhonda. The Successful Business Plan: Secrets and Strategies
This resource provides a step-by-step process for creating a successful business, including: expert advice, worksheets, tips on impressing funders, sample business plan guides, tips for your type of business, the Abrams Method of flow-through financials, and winning tips for competitors.
Attard, Janet. Business Know-How: An Operational Guide for Home-Based and Micro-Sized Businesses with Limited Budgets
Business Know-How is a comprehensive guide to small and home business success. It tells you the strategies that owners of homebased and small businesses like yours are using today.
Drew, Bonnie and Noel. Fast Cash for Kids
Parents want kids to learn about responsibility – and kids want to make their own money. Now, Fast Cash for Kids promises to provide the answers and motivation to turn eager wage earners into young entrepreneurs. This is the ideal book for any young businessperson who wants to get his or her business started in the right direction. It’s also a great guide for parents and teachers who want to encourage entrepreneurship in their children and students.
Girl Scouts of the USA. CentsAbility
This resource was compiled by the Girls Scouts of the USA as a financial literacy guide for girls. CentsAbility was developed to help Junior and Cadette Girl Scouts learn and implement key concepts and skills related to personal money management. As they explore the relationship between lifestyle and occupational choices and imagine themselves as young adults, they’ll learn the all-important balancing act between income and expenses as they create and balance their budgets. This resource’s group activities and individual projects offer opportunities to help girls develop and use their fiscal muscles.
Girl Scouts of the USA. Got Money?
This guide is one of the many books in the Studio 2B Focus series. Got Money? focuses on saving and investing money.
Godfrey, Joline. No More Frogs to Kiss: 99 Ways to Give Economic Power to Girls
This resource shows how to help girls discover the self-respect that comes only from developing our own talents and finding our own independence - and to do it before the fog of "happily ever after" descends. A great book for parents, teachers, sisters, brothers, and friends of girls everywhere!
Godfrey, Neale S. Neale S. Godfrey’s Ultimate Kid’s Money Book
In this comprehensive guide, renowned financial expert Neale S. Godfrey reveals everything you need to know about money, including how to earn it, save it, spend it, and share it. She also explains such topics as credit, checks, and electronic banking – and relates them all to a young reader’s world.
Henricks, Mark. Business Plans Made Easy
Whether you're just starting out or already running a business, a business plan can be the most important factor in your success. In this enjoyable, easy-to-read guide, Mark Henricks shares with you proven techniques, hints and tips for easily creating results-getting business plans that match your exact needs.
Independent Means, Inc. Exploring Entrepreneurship
This kit includes: Product in a Box, a six session curriculum, a copy of the Hot Company board game, the Biz Word and Biz Buzz Activity Cards and the Women Who Dare video. With these tools, young women will discover how to make a job, not just take a job!
Independent Means, Inc. Biz Buzz.
Biz Buzz introduces the principles, language and key concepts of business through participation and imagination. This new series of eight activities will help you create a fun and effective learning experience. Ages 13 and up.
Jones, Vada Lee. Kids Can Make Money Too!
This resource teaches kids how to earn and save money, open and use a checking account, finance and advertise a business, have fun without spending money, and recognize success.
Kay, Ellie. Money Doesn't Grow on Trees
Ellie Kay, "savings queen" and the mother of five, provides down-to-earth, practical ways to teach kids how to handle money wisely. Her signature humor and creative, helpful advice, along with tips from other parents, make this an easy-to-follow guide for parents of pre-schoolers through teens.
Reber, Deborah. In Their Shoes: Extraordinary Women Describe Their Amazing Careers.
This fun, accessible book should appeal to teens who are exploring career possibilities. Each chapter contains an interview with its subject, for example, Nancy Pearl, librarian, as well as sidebars and lists on what to do now to prepare, what the person's day is like, and a time line of how her career took shape over the years. Concrete details about the women's current lives and about how they attained their goals are included. The variety of careers is impressive, ranging from forensic scientist and sheriff to social worker and actionista woman who is part motivational speaker, part writer, and part actress.
Trahey, Jane. Women and Power.
Jane Trahey has taken the ultimate power trip-from a 9-to-5 office worker, she boldly climbed the corporate power ladder and set herself up as president of a multi-million dollar ad agency. She knows the way up and in this book she tells EVERYTHING: The big job interview, negotiating a top salary, getting and keeping that fancy office, enhancing your corporate image, avoiding sex hassles, dressing for success, chucking the corporate game and setting up your own business.
Wood, Heather. 101 Marvelous Money Making Ideas for Kids
This book is the self-starter’s guide to discovering and marketing your skills so you can get the job you want. Whether you’re an artist or an athlete, a clown or a computer-nut, you’ll discover a way to put your talents to work and pocket the results.