The Kidz Biz Fair started with 10 tables and a dream.

A handful of kids showed up with an idea, a homemade sign, and no idea if anyone would buy what they made — and they sold out anyway. Since 2022, that small group has grown into 40 youth-led businesses this year alone, with more than 100 young entrepreneurs, family members, and team participants showing up with products, services, creativity, and courage.

This is more than a one-day event. Before every Kidz Biz Fair, young entrepreneurs and their families join free monthly Family Sessions — nine sessions running July 2026 through March 2027 — covering everything from finding a big idea to pricing, branding, budgeting, and pitching with confidence. April 10, 2027 isn't the starting line. It's the celebration of nine months of real work.

Kidz Biz Fair gives young people ages 6–17 the chance to:

Develop a real business
Create a product or service
Set prices and manage money
Serve real customers
Solve problems
Build confidence, responsibility, and resilience

One of the most meaningful moments happens when a sponsoring business owner presents an award bearing their company's name to a young entrepreneur. That business owner knows what it feels like to have someone believe in them when their own business was still just an idea and a hope. The award becomes more than recognition — it becomes a message: We see you. We believe in what you are building. Keep going.

Every business at the Fair starts the same way: a kid with an idea, and adults who show up and say it's worth building. That's the moment your gift makes possible — the moment a young person realizes, "My idea matters." And that moment can change everything.

Your investment helps make sure that moment reaches every family, not just the ones who happen to hear about us.

Kidz Biz Fair is a signature youth entrepreneurship program of FIERCE Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, powered by the Acton Children's Business Fair model.

Kidz Biz Fair 2027: Invest in Their Ideas

Help fund a year of free entrepreneurship sessions for 50+ young business owners in La Crosse and Onalaska — leading up to the Kidz Biz Fair on April 10, 2027.