Denver, CO
National Lemonade Day Expands to Denver: Kicking Off with a Youth Entrepreneurship Workshop
DENVER, August 21, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Lemonade Day, a well-established national non-profit organization that empowers young children through an experiential entrepreneurship program, is expanding. The organization announced that it is establishing a Lemonade Day Chapter in Denver, Colorado to bring this empowering experience to more kids. Since 2007, Lemonade Day has served more than 1.5 million young resilient children, fueling an 85% increase in their growth mindset.
“Lemonade Day introduces kids in grades K-8th to entrepreneurship by wrapping the simple, yet profound experience of a lemonade stand with important lessons and learnings,” explained Nicole Cassier-Mason, chief executive officer of Lemonade Day National. “By planting a seed of entrepreneurship in children, we nurture the skills, agency, and growth mindset needed for their future. We envision a world where every child’s innate potential is unleashed through entrepreneurship, inspiring them to lead, innovate, and positively impact their communities and themselves.”
Transforming the classic lemonade stand into a dynamic entrepreneurial adventure, Lemonade Day empowers every child with the tools and confidence to launch their own business, learn valuable skills, and taste sweet success. Crafting a rich tapestry of learning, the organization’s program weaves entrepreneurship, financial savvy, and life skills into every child’s journey, turning the lemonade stand into a fun classroom without walls. To strengthen the backbone of Lemonade Day, its local leadership team empowers partners and philanthropic supporters with the resources and insights needed to fuel a youth entrepreneurship ecosystem, weaving a network of support that propels youth, their families, and the entire community forward.
It has been proven that communities that rally behind Lemonade Day benefit as much as the kids and their adult mentors do. “Our goal is to mobilize civic leaders, volunteers, businesses, youth organizations, schools, and faith-based institutions to champion youth entrepreneurship,” stated Carolina Lizzio, Lemonade Day’s Denver Market Manager. “Together, we inspire citizens to rally behind every lemonade stand, seeding future success and civic engagement.”
To kick off the national organization’s expansion into Denver, Lemonade Day will be hosting a youth entrepreneurship workshop called “Lemonade Day University” (a.k.a. “LemonU”), for 150 kids at Young Americans Bank on Saturday, September 28th, 9:00am to 2:00pm.
At LemonU, kids will be taught how to set goals, develop a business plan and budget, and create a brand and marketing plan. They will learn about safe site location, health sanitation, and customer service to maximize profit. Kids will pitch their plan to secure a $30-$50 micro-loan investment and will also have the chance to win free supplies and materials to help put their plan in action to achieve their dreams. Trained instructors will coach youth on how to spend some of their hard-earned money on themselves; save some and invest in their futures by opening a bank account, and share some with a charity of their choice. Graduates of LemonU will leave the workshop armed and ready to launch their business and have a public selling experience – on a day of their family’s choosing.
With incredible support from the Daniels Fund and Adolph Coors Foundation, Lemonade Day is able to offer the program for free to all Denver participants via these options:
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Lemonade Day University at Young Americans Bank – This free 1-day in-person workshop is for children in grades 3rd to 8th grade. Click here to register online and secure your child’s spot. Space is limited to 150 participants. If the workshop is full, a waitlist can be joined.
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My Lemonade Day App – Parents can directly access the Lemonade Day curriculum via this digital platform. The My Lemonade Day app provides an animated, interactive experience where kids have access to a series of lessons that step them through the process of owning and operating their own lemonade business. It can be downloaded for iOS and android platforms and does not require Wi-Fi for use. Caring adults mentoring their child will follow a 2-step process to register youth and unlock their access to the program. Mentor training materials can be found in the Mentor Portal.
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Youth Workbooks and Mentor Guides – Schools, youth organizations, community centers, and churches can contact the Denver Market Manager to learn about partnership opportunities for the 2024/2025 school year, which include free customized training and implementation guides, resources, and extension programs.
Help your child kickstart the school year and watch your young entrepreneur flourish as they turn concepts into reality, build confidence, and develop leadership skills that last a lifetime. Anyone and everyone can be involved in Lemonade Day! Young entrepreneurs with lemonade stands need mentors, investors, business partners, great locations, and customers. Donors and volunteers are also needed to make Lemonade Day a success, and sponsorship opportunities are still available. Join us today and witness the magic that happens when kids are introduced to the power of entrepreneurship!
Learn more about Lemonade Day in this quick video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnUUJ5R_Zy8&t=2s
Find out more information or register for the Lemonade Day Denver program by visiting: https://lemonadeday.org/denver
About Lemonade Day
Lemonade Day is a national non-profit dedicated to teaching youth in grades K-8 important business, financial, character-building, and life skills that are the key ingredients to having an entrepreneurial growth mindset. Playing a vital role in the education and workforce ecosystem, Lemonade Day operates in 104 licensed affiliate markets. Over 18 years, the organization has immersed over 1.5 MILLION kids (and counting) in its experiential entrepreneurship learning program – kids who collectively have earned over $352.5 MILLION in sales, generating $270 MILLION in profit, and $142.5 MILLION in donations. Visit lemonadeday.org.
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Contacts
Carolina Lizzio, Lemonade Day Denver Market Manager
(720) 702-3204 or carolina@lemonadeday.org
Pedal boats are back at City Park in Denver this week and they come in more shapes than just swans.
On Wednesday, the city of Denver opened its newest so-called Adventure Hub where visitors can rent gear to enjoy on Ferril Lake. That includes pedal boats shaped like swans, dragons, ducks and flamingos, as well as kayaks, canoes and stand-up paddleboards. If you’d rather pedal on land instead of the water, the hub also has beach cruiser bikes and surrey bikes, which hold up to six people, available for rent.
City Park’s Adventure Hub is the second to open this year, following another at Washington Park in early June. Stephanie Figueroa, spokesperson for Denver Parks and Recreation, said rentals were supposed to start sooner at City Park, but that the electricity powering the point-of-sale system needed to be replaced after a fire at the historic bandshell there.
Water sport rentals cost range from $15 per hour for a SUP or single-person kayak to $35 per hour for swan, dragon and duck pedal boats, which fit up to four people. Bikes are similarly priced at $15 per hour for a single-person beach cruiser up to $45 per hour for a surrey “stretch limousine” for six riders. Figueroa noted that it is a flat fee and not a per-person charge.
“For families, as long as you fit, you can go,” she said, adding that gear is available for rent during the City Park Jazz series this summer.
This year marks the first time in at least two decades that Denver officials have managed gear rentals in City Park. The city ended its longtime contract with vendor Wheel Fun Rentals, which previously supplied things like swan pedal boats, in early 2026 after more than 20 years, Figueroa said.
Denver’s decision to take over operations was both more cost-effective and enabled the city to have more control over the experience, she added. Part of the impetus was a recent initiative called the Outdoor Adventure and Alternative Sports Strategic Plan, which sought to identify how Denver could offer more recreation opportunities to residents.
“That gave us the tools and knowledge to bring this in-house,” Figueroa said. “We have historically been amazing at indoor recreation and now we want to bring more of those opportunities outside.”
The Adventure Hub at City Park is open every day from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., while the one at Washington Park is open every day from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. They are both closed on city-observed holidays.
Another Adventure Hub, currently under construction at Ruby Hill, is expected to open late this year or early next, Figueroa said.
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Downtown Denver’s 16th Street FreeRide service is a staple. In fact, more than 2 million people hop on every year. Now, the service could be in jeopardy as RTD tries to figure out ways to fix its $200 million budget deficit.
“The demand for the FreeRide is at the highest level it’s been since the pandemic, and it’s the cheapest service that we run in terms of per passenger cost,” RTD board member Chris Nicholson said.
Nicholson was shocked when staff made budget suggestions that would end the FreeRide service, one of the highest ridership lines in the system.
Not to mention, 70% of RTD’s budget comes from sales tax, and downtown Denver is one of the biggest economic engines in the district.
“We are so caught up in the conversation about cuts across the entire region that that opportunity for conversation with the downtown community really didn’t get the chance to happen, and a lot of people were surprised to see that in there,” Nicholson added.
For him, the proposal is personal. Nicholson says he uses the service daily.
“When I need to go up to Union Station, when I need to go to meet somebody for coffee, when I need to get groceries,” Nicholson said.
CBS Colorado took a trip using FreeRide to hear from passengers.
“Gone out drinking, out eating, back and forth from the hotels,” said one passenger visiting downtown for a work conference. “So yeah, it’s been useful for that.”
While some riders use it for leisure, others say they depend on it.
“I use it for transportation to Union Station to get to and from doctor’s appointments to and from work is actually one of the reasons why I chose to live downtown,” downtown resident Jovelle Brown said.
And with millions of riders, the numbers speak for themselves.
“I’ll be at City Hall fighting against the proposal,” Brown added.
“We need to look at this from the perspective of the communities we operate in, and I think that those communities made their voices heard on this one,” Nicholson said.
A spokesperson for Mayor Mike Johnston’s office told CBS Colorado, “We are deeply sympathetic to RTD’s budget situation, but cutting a popular service used hundreds of thousands of times a month and millions of times a year isn’t the answer. As RTD itself noted recently, the 16th Street FreeRide is vital to supporting downtown and fills a crucial need in helping people navigate between Civic Center Station and Union Station at no cost. It’s the kind of thing we need more of if we want people to use public transportation, not less.
“We know RTD shares in our affection for this service as well as our belief that Denverites and visitors alike deserve cost-efficient and safe public transportation, and we look forward to working together as this process unfolds.”
Denver police arrested two boys on suspicion of first-degree murder after detectives said they shot and killed a 33-year-old man in Sunnyside.
Investigators believe Christopher Nabors confronted the boys, who are 12 and 14 years old, after he found them either breaking into or trying to steal his vehicle in the 4300 block of North Pecos Street on June 30.
The boys, who have not been publicly identified because they are juveniles, were arrested by Denver Police Department officers on July 1 after police spotted them in a stolen vehicle and they fled when officers tried to pull them over.
Denver police also accused the 14-year-old of being involved with a shooting about 15 minutes before the Sunnyside shooting, when the teen and two other juveniles shot a fourth juvenile near Park Avenue and East 20th Avenue. The juvenile victim was injured but survived, agency officials said.
Detectives are still investigating a homicide that happened under the same circumstances in the 15000 block of East Olmsted Drive in the early hours of June 24.
Jacob Lopez, 19, was killed in that shooting, according to the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.
Following the deaths of Nabors and Lopez, Denver police warned the public against confronting would-be car thieves.
“We offer this warning, in no way to shame the victims for their attempts to protect their vehicles, but to bring awareness to this disturbing trend and to encourage everyone to call 911 if they see something suspicious or a crime in progress,” Chief Ron Thomas said in a statement on July 2. “The brazen actions of these suspects go against the fiber of our community, and our investigations teams are working to identify and arrest them.”
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