Whenever you go to a dilapidated community throughout the United States, what is missing? What is missing is a foundation where individuals can be educated, live, and work. The reasons why these communities are in that position varies, but one key component in changing any community from despair to hope is through entrepreneurship. This is where The Benson Institute can help.

The Benson Institute, Inc. is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to teach, equip, and cultivate people that reside in limited-resource communities to become entrepreneurs.  We will accomplish this by teaching the fundamentals of creating and operating a business and providing individuals the resources to operate, manage, and sustain their business.    

We operate around through the following programs:

• Teaching youth about ownership and wealth
• Spreading that entrepreneurship matters
• Working with communities to create innovation hubs and promoting achievement

Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship (YIE) program: The YIE program is an academic achievement program where the Benson Institute not only push youth to go to school to get a job but to also go to school to create a job. 

Adults Creating a Brighter Tomorrow Entrepreneurship (ACBTE) program: is a career and life redevelopment program aimed are teaching, equipping, and mentoring adults to create and sustain a business.