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Harold A. Honickman Entrepreneurial Program
Established with a grant from The Honickman Foundation, the Harold A. Honickman Entrepreneurial Program (HAHEP) was created in partnership with Project H.O.M.E. to provide Philadelphia Teens who are in the 9th through 12th grades with the opportunity to develop business skills while enhancing their sense of responsibility, creativity, and management.The HAHEP Club meet on Friday afternoons at the Honickman Learning Center and Comcast Technology Labs to develop ideas, identify eligible team members, implement a business plan and prepare Power Point presentations for approval from the HAHEP steering committee.
Once a business plan has been accepted, the teen entrepreneur team is assigned a mentor from the HAHEP steering committee. As they progress through the project, the teen team and their mentor meet on a regular basis and the teen entrepreneurs are also given the opportunity to visit their mentors' workplace and see how their mentors' businesses are operated.
During the course of the project, the teens have the opportunity to share their successes and challenges with each other so the groups can learn from everyone's experience.
Two examples of successful entrepreneurial projects that have been developed over the past year are Tanisha's Spectacular Water Ice Stand which operates on weekends during the summer in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square. The stand specializes in water ice, soft pretzels and bottled water. The North Philly Metropolis is a community newspaper written and published by students in the Teen Program at the Honickman Learning Center and Comcast Technology Labs. Teen entrepreneurs sell advertisements for the paper in order to pay for the production and distribution of the newspaper, as well as pay the writers.