BKFK and CosmoGIRL! Magazine Announce 'Mind Your Own Business' Challenge for Girls with $10,000 Grand Prize
National Contest seeks hot new entrepreneurial ideas created by girls for a changing world
Stamford, CT (PRWEB) April 1, 2008 -- BKFK, the youth empowerment company, and CosmoGIRL! magazine today announced the launch of the CosmoGIRL! Mind Your Own Business Challenge "CG! MYOB Challenge." The CG! MYOB Challenge will discover America's hottest new entrepreneurial concept created by a girl - and then help that girl make her idea a reality. The grand prize winner will receive $10,000 in seed money from BKFK to get her business off the ground. She'll also get media attention and entrepreneurial support along her path to success. Piczo.com, the world's leading online teen community, is the Presenting Sponsor and The BizWorld Foundation and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County are the Educational Partners of this competition.
Celebrity judges of the CG! MYOB Challenge include: Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Jesse Draper, star of Nickelodeon's Naked Brothers Band and inspiration for The BizWorld Foundation; George Gendron, former editor-in-chief of Inc. magazine and director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at Clark University; and Tina Wells, millionaire entrepreneur, renowned expert in youth marketing, and CEO of Buzz Marketing Group.
Only girls who are citizens of the United States, aged 13 - 22, are eligible to participate in the CG! MYOB Challenge. The contest period runs from April 1st, 2008 until 12:00PM EST on June 30, 2008. All entries must be received online at: www.bkfk.com. BKFK.com's exclusive social entrepreneurship platform, the "Idea Locker™" will provide powerful online tools for idea generation and brainstorming, to support the creative process of this competition.
In addition to the $10,000 Grand Prize, the winner will be featured in an upcoming issue of CosmoGIRL! magazine.
"In terms of youth entrepreneurship, girls have traditionally been underrepresented," noted Susan Schulz, editor-in-chief of CosmoGIRL! magazine. "We want to give young women the chance to prove how smart, talented and innovative they are. We hope to find, inspire and help nurture the next Anita Roddick, Madame C.J. Walker or Oprah Winfrey!"
"The CosmoGIRL! Mind Your Own Business Challenge represents an important opportunity for more of America's girls to dream out loud and express their creative visions and business ideas," said Norman Goldstein, founder and CEO of BKFK. "We are very excited to partner with CosmoGIRL! to spotlight the next generation of female entrepreneurs- and to help the grand prize winner cross the entrepreneurial finish line!"
In addition to the CG! MYOB Challenge, BKFK is also launching three other national competitions on April 1st, 2008. The Akitas to Zebras (A-Z) Animal Challenge seeks new ideas to protect and improve the lives of animals, The Design Squad Trash To Treasure Competition challenges teens to create cool new stuff from discarded items, and the Advertise Your Cause Challenge seeks ideas from young people on creative new cause-related advertising and awareness campaigns. All four BKFK competitions launching April 1st will be hosted online at www.bkfk.com and each offers a $10,000 Grand prize and "connections to reality."
About By Kids For Kids Co.
By Kids for Kids® (BKFK®) is a youth marketing and media company partnering with the worlds' leading corporations to provide a platform to foster, share, showcase, and commercialize youth innovation and entrepreneurship. Their mission is to inspire, motivate and stimulate the innovative spirit within all young people.
The closely held Stamford, CT-based corporation has been dedicated to making youth ideas a reality since 2003. Thru its website (www.bkfk.com) and its social community (Idea Locker™), online competitions, TV show (Think Big™), Magazine (Possible™), press, and education outreach the company engages youth in the US and around the world. BKFK® youth-created products are available nationally and serve as a testament to the power of youth innovation and social entrepreneurship.
More information about the company and its successes helping young innovators is available online at www.bkfk.com
About CosmoGIRL! Magazine
CosmoGIRL! (www.cosmogirl.com) empowers and inspires young women to be leaders in all aspects of their lives. From setting the latest trends to standing up for what they believe in, our readers were Born To Lead. CosmoGIRL! publishes ten issues annually, as well as CosmoGIRL! Prom. Teens can also interact with the brand on the digital front, with CosmoGIRL.com, CosmoGIRL! mobile (m.cosmogirl.com), and an original webisode series covering up-and-coming fashion designers. In addition to its U.S. flagship, CosmoGIRL! publishes 7 editions around the world. The magazine is published by Hearst Magazines, a unit of Hearst Corporation (www.hearst.com) and one of the world's largest publishers of monthly magazines, with nearly 200 editions around the world, including 19 U.S. titles and 20 magazines in the United Kingdom, published through its wholly owned subsidiary, The National Magazine Company Limited. Hearst reaches more adults than any other publisher of monthly magazines (77.4 million total adults, according to MRI, Fall 2007).
About Piczo.com
Piczo empowers teens worldwide to creatively express themselves, build personal communities, and share ideas and experiences with their friends in a safe online environment. Piczo's easy-to-use, drag-and-drop website editing tools spotlight member creativity without requiring technical skills of any kind. Piczo is one of the leading online teen communities worldwide according to comScore MediaMetrix with 10 million unique users per month and over 1 billion page views. http://www.piczo.com
About The BizWorld Foundation
Founded in 1997, The BizWorld Foundation's mission is to challenge and engage children across the cultural and economic spectrum through experiential learning programs that teach the basics of business, entrepreneurship, and money management and promote teamwork and leadership in the classroom. To date, The BizWorld Foundation has reached over 190,000 students in all 50 states. http://www.bizworld.org/
About UMBC
UMBC is a medium-sized public research university of 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students who collaborate with faculty to address real-world challenges. Located just south of Baltimore near I-95 and the BWI airport, UMBC's residential campus houses state-of-the-art facilities in the sciences, engineering, arts, social sciences and humanities. UMBC combines the energy of a research university with the close community feel and attention to individual students found in liberal arts colleges. http://www.umbc.edu/
Contacts:
For BKFK: John Forrester (323) 702-3684 media @ bkfk.com
For CosmoGIRL! Corinne Kotler, 212-649-2583, ckotler @ hearst.com
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