Montana Senior Awarded National Scholarship

Date: April 20, 2015

HELENA, Mont., April 20, 2015—A Montana high school senior was among 100 winners nationally from a pool of more than 600 applicants competing this year for a Young Entrepreneur Foundation scholarship award from the National Federation of Independent Business, America’s largest and leading small-business association since 1943.
NFIB’s YEF scholarship program is designed to reward and encourage entrepreneurial talents among high school students. “America’s young people have caught the entrepreneurial bug, and we could not be more confident in our next generation of business owners,” said Molly Young, Director of the Young Entrepreneur Foundation. “We are impressed year after year with the quality of these hard-working, innovative high school students who are making their entrepreneurial dreams happen.”
Layne Ryerson of Helena, who attends Helena High School, was awarded an NFIB/Betty & Steve Neighbors Young Entrepreneur Award of $1,000. Ryerson’s enterprise is Grizzly Kettle Corn. He plans to attend Whitworth University in Washington state.
YEF scholarships are financed by the generous donations of NFIB members and by businesses and foundations across the country. Since 2003, the NFIB Young Entrepreneur Foundation has awarded more than 2,600 scholarships totaling $2.6 million. This year, NFIB’s Young Entrepreneur Foundation awarded $145,000 to deserving young entrepreneurs. Each award is between $1,000 and $15,000. At an awards ceremony in Washington D.C. on July 23, four finalists will receive a $5,000 scholarship and one the top prize of $15,000.  The scholarships are used to help with tuition costs for the winners’ post-secondary education. The scholarships are used to help with tuition costs for the winners’ post-secondary education. 
To qualify for an NFIB Young Entrepreneur Award, students must be seniors in high school who own and/or operate their own small business. They are required to write an essay describing their entrepreneurial endeavors and future goals. NFIB members around the country interview the applicants for the Young Entrepreneur Awards. 
A full list of this year’s winners, as well as past winners, is available here. 
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The NFIB Young Entrepreneur Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization promoting the importance of small business and free enterprise to the nation’s youth. More information is available at www.NFIB.com/YEF. The Foundation is associated with the National Federation of Independent Business; NFIB is the nation’s leading small business advocacy association, with offices in Washington, D.C. and all 50 state capitals. Founded in 1943 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, NFIB gives small- and independent-business owners a voice in shaping the public policy issues that affect their business. NFIB’s powerful network of grassroots activists send their views directly to state and federal lawmakers through our unique member-only ballot, thus playing a critical role in supporting America’s free enterprise system.  
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