The National Center for Human and Civil Rights has awarded the Porsche Driving Force Youth Award to Lily Sandler, the 16-year-old co-founder of BLAMtastic®, LLC, an international consumer goods company. Miss Sandler has been honored for her work in entrepreneurship to address issues facing women and young people. She is the founder of The BLAMtastic® Legacy Foundation, which offers entrepreneurial education and support to women and young entrepreneurs. The non-profit foundation has recently created the M2E2 Extreme Entrepreneurship Business Accelerator for women and young entrepreneurs. It is the first of its kind in the country.
Miss Sandler serves on the board of Independent Youth and volunteers with many youth advocacy organizations such as Kingonomics Sprout.UP. She travels the country as an expert speaker on the issues of entrepreneurship and empowerment for young people. Miss Sandler is a two-time keynote speaker for TEDtalks.
In 2007-2008, then "tween" entrepreneurs, 10 and 9 year-old Lily and Melanie Sandler, started BLAMtastic® on a challenge by their mother, Renee, as a lesson in empowerment. Now, years later, BLAMtastic®'s popular natural based American made products are available online at www.blamtastic.com, www.babyblamtastic.com and in many thousands of retail outlets acrossthe United States in retailers include Walmart, Toys R US, Learning Express, Baby Depot and Dunham's. BLAMtastic® products are also distributed in South Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada and soon throughout South America. The Sandler family has been named one of the 10 most impressive families in America by Disney's babble.com.
SOURCE BLAMtastic, LLC
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