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97
licensed territories, per the official impact page
90
communities, per the official directory summary
94
linkable entries in our directory
Public copy on this site uses only two of those counts, always labelled: “97 licensed territories reported nationally” and “94 listed in the public directory”. The “more than three times” alumni figure is an association across two separate surveys of two different groups, not a measured effect of the program, and it appears on the public pages only as a full sentence. All outcome figures are surveys, not trials. The stand math in the kit is a teaching model, not a forecast.
21 entries
Three counts exist and they are not the same thing. Public pages on this site use only the first and the third, each labelled.
97
Licensed territories reported nationally
The official impact page reports 97 licensed territories across the United States and Canada, including Puerto Rico and military bases. Public copy on this site says "97 licensed territories reported nationally".
90
Communities in the official directory summary
The directory page's own summary line says 90 communities. This figure is not used on the public pages here; it is recorded so the gap is visible.
94
Linkable entries in this site's directory
Every local program page that could be named and linked on 17 September 2026. Public copy says "94 listed in the public directory". Coordinates are standard coordinates for each named place; a county is plotted at its seat and a metro at its core city.
1.5 million+
$184 million
In profit generated by kids
Their wording is "profit generated by kids", which is what this site uses.
2007
Founded in Houston, Texas by Michael Holthouse
Founder of Paranet, sold to Sprint in 1997. Inc. Entrepreneur of the Year. Founder of the Holthouse Foundation for Kids and Prepared 4 Life.
2,700
Houston kids in the first Lemonade Day
The organization's own account of its first year.
The first Sunday in May
National Lemonade Day, which makes the next one Sunday 2 May 2027
Local programs set their own dates through spring and summer.
Mission
"Help prepare youth for life through fun, proactive and experiential programs infused with life skills, character education, and entrepreneurship."
Quoted exactly.
Survey results reported by the organization. None of these are controlled trials.
6 figures
Correlation between math and the real world 87%, Communication skills 86%, Self esteem 86%, Ability to set financial goals 86%, Understanding of saving and philanthropy 86%, Problem solving 83%
Described there as their most recent national survey of parents, mentors, group leaders and teachers: adults reporting improvement in children. Label wording is theirs, unshortened.
4 figures
Plan to start their own business 67%, Will invent something that will change the world 57%, Can find lots of ways around a problem 69%, Are running their own business today 28%
An alumni survey, self reported.
More than 3x
Surveyed Lemonade Day alumni report running businesses at more than three times the rate reported for the comparison group of U.S. students
This is an association across two surveys of two different groups, not a measured effect of the program. The public page says so in full sentence form and never as a bare "3x".
2020
The impact study linked from Our Impact
4 quotes
Mikaila Ulmer (Me & the Bees Lemonade, 2009 alumna); Joe Daly (Board Chairman, Gallup); Charlie Hamilton (Board member, Caprock Partners); Rohit and Sidharth Srinivasan (Trashbots, 2009 alumni)
Reproduced as published. No portraits are attached to a quote unless the photograph is of that person.
11 stories
Pilar Gravitte, Little Lemon; Pearl Hope, Lucky Lemonade Co.; Enrique, Baked goods; Kyrei, Stroke Survivor Lemonade & Co.; Duane Shaw, Lemon Squeezos; Reya, Nivedh, Aarush and Naysa, Dolphin Buddies; Juliana, Food truck; Danyarelie Ruiz, Puerto Rico; Ja'Qub and Jaden, The Boys Who Never Gave Up; Lane Sopko, Major League Lemonade; Rebekkah, Lemon cookies
Names, businesses and one-line results as published. A photograph appears on a story card only when the published caption names that kid.
11 + 2
National board members and advisory board
11 people
National staff and their titles
27 names
Sponsors and partners, H-E-B presenting
Names only, set as text badges. No logo files are reproduced.
51 photographs
Every real photograph on this site
Lemonade Day's own published photographs, taken from the gallery and the pages the program publishes them on. Credit for every frame belongs to Lemonade Day. A small set of generated texture images exists in the codebase and is never used in a prominent position.
A model
The stand economics in the kit: supply costs, demand response, the profit curve
A stepped shopping list of real supermarket pack sizes and a demand curve that falls as price rises. It is a teaching model for the arithmetic, not a forecast of any real stand.
Built for this site
Zesty
The lemon mascot
An original character. It is not Lemonade Day's own mascot artwork.
Drawn for this site
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