LLCEO gains practical business experience as well as learning to be a part of community

 

[December 06, 2019] 

Land of Lincoln Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities students have taken on many volunteer and community service tasks during the month of November as they celebrate the season of gratitude.

The 13 Land of Lincoln CEO students, under the direction of facilitator Britta Langley, helped with landscaping at Logan County Sheriff’s Department, set up Christmas trees around the Logan County Courthouse square for the Winter Wonderland Tree Lighting and Small Business Saturday events, decorated the showroom at Graue, Inc., and greeted veterans returning home from an Honor Flight.

A LLCEO student hoists two Christmas trees to set up around the Logan County Courthouse in preparation for the Winter Wonderland tree lighting last weekend.

“I’m so very proud of these students,” Langley said. “They have worked so very hard and did an amazing job.”

LLCEO students discuss the Holiday House of the Week competition, the CEO class, and the upcoming group business on the Cheap Seats radio show this weekend.

Lincoln Mayor and LLCEO mentor Seth Goodman has partnered with the LLCEO class to select a decorated home in Lincoln to receive a $100 gift card from a local business as the Holiday House of the Week. The students discussed their involvement on Cheap Seats this past weekend.

Being a part of the community they serve is an important element of the LLCEO curriculum. Giving back and sharing the local entrepreneurial spirit is key.

The students solicited local businesses to advertise on their badges they wear for the year in the program and set a record in sales, thus completing their first joint business as a class.

The students are planning their group “big” business to complete together as a team, which creates the capital to launch their 13 individual businesses by May 2020.

Working through both the badge and big businesses build necessary teamwork skills as well as time and financial management which will be crucial in their individual businesses.

For more information, please follow the LLCEO on their website at www.landoflincolnceo.com.

[Jennifer Keith]