Camp LEAD LLC is a program that seeks to educate, empower, and equip youth with thenecessary tools to become successful academically and professionally. The program focuses ondeveloping leadership skills, a mindset of entrepreneurship, and a heart for community service. Thedevelopment of an entrepreneurial mindset has to do with our youth succeeding whether theypursue higher education, enter the workforce, or become entrepreneurs. The program seeks to empower each youth to develop thought processes and actions that lead to economic success, a sense of citizenship in their communities but also to create opportunities for growth for themselves as well as others. Using guided discussions, experiential learning activities, and community service projects youth will complete this camp with a greater understanding of their role as leader in their homes, communities, and schools. Youth will be taught the importance of forming positive and productive collaborations with peers, counselors, and community partners for the purposes of accomplishing a task and/or obtaining a goal. Youth participating in Camp LEAD will be challenged to take initiative, become creative and innovative in their thinking, and to be assertive in their pursuits for success.

Entrepreneurship education helps youth by raising their literacy rate, increasing proficiency inmath, improves work ethic, creates a sense of responsibility and self-independence, helps them tobalance "team" and "self" attitudes and approaches to problem solving, develops creative thinkingskills, builds on students’ strengths, encourages overcoming their weaknesses, improves technicalskills, and increases community service and awareness. 'Camp Lead was built on these premisesand will challenge all'campers to participate fully. '

Research have determined that an entrepreneurship program, or supplement, can be an importanttool for youth, for it takes the emphasis off, "why do we have to learn this" and puts it on "here iswhere this will be beneficial for you to know this." The saying, "it takes money to make money"may be true, but more so than this, it takes knowledge!