Small Business Should Support Lemonade Alley
By Sam SlomLemonade Alley is a business & financial literacy contest for Hawai‘i kids K-12. It’s also a fund-raising event for Boys & Girls Club, Boy Scouts and YWCA of Hawaii. It’s open to kids on all islands and is a free way for them to get biz-wise and street-smart.
The event takes place November 12, (the last day of APEC) with 32 Finalist Teams building lemonade stands on Iolani School’s baseball field to make/sell lemonade and compete in 4 divisions each with $1,000 in cash prizes and a potential bottling contract with Wailua Bottlers. During the finals, teams will be judged on the quality of a 1-page business plan, recipe, booth, standup oral pitch and amount of money donated to charity. Materials are being supplied by Whole Foods, Kualoa Ranch, OK Farms and Aloun Farms. Lemonade Alley is also a first-of-its-kind “green” (paperless) business plan competition featuring an online submission and judging process provided by presenting sponsor BizGym.com.
Lemonade Alley has also been identified by the APEC Host Committee on Communications as the go-to event for visiting APEC press to get local interest stories. Lemonade Alley is apparently the only major event happening outside of APEC.
Wally Amos and Caroline Kim are active volunteers. You can help too. Contact me (808-349-5438). Lemonade Alley is having a series of press events including a press kickoff party at ING Direct Cafe, fruit picking press junket to Kualoa Ranch, Fruit Drops for local residents to donate fruit and other soon to be announced photo ops. Business Showcase and Craft Fair of 90 stalls has been added around the main competition area. For a donation of $100 or more your business can have a tent exhibition area.
For more, see lemonadealley.com