Friday Client Spotlight: Opportunity Rise
Most high schoolers spend their free time browsing the internet, hanging out with friends and playing sports or videogames. That’s why it was such a shock to me to find out how two Pennsylvania high schoolers were spending their free time, by raising money for students with learning disabilities to help them attend their high school, AIM Academy. Sophia Gross and Andrew Rosenstein started a business called Opportunity Rise, selling sweatshirts and sweaters to raise awareness about learning disabilities, and pledged to donate half of their profits back to their school for a scholarship.
Seven months after Opportunity Rise was born, the young social entrepreneurs have grossed more than $4,000, and they recently gave AIM Academy their first donation of $1,000. Gross, 16, and Rosenstein, 15, built their business, Opportunity Rise, as part of Startups Corps, the four-year-old nonprofit that helps teens launch companies.
AIM is a school that specializes in teaching kids with learning disabilities such as dyslexia, dyscalculia ADD, ADHD and more. While attending AIM Academy, Gross and Rosenstein learned how to read and write and also learned how to start their very own business. So this is their way of giving back to the institution that helped them so much throughout the years.
Make sure you like and share Opportunity Rise on Facebook. Make sure to donate, and of course, buy their spectacular merchandise, because it’s for a truly outstanding cause. Sophia and Andrew are fortunate enough to be able to attend AIM Academy, but a lot of kids with the same learning differences cannot. Help make a difference in someone else’s life by supporting Opportunity Rise. Be more like Sophia and Andrew!