What is Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation's mission? To change the lives of children with cancer through funding impactful research, raising awareness, supporting families, and empowering everyone to help cure childhood cancer.

Everything that Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation does to help kids with cancer - from funding breakthrough research to providing critical support programs - starts with supporters like you. Our commitment to transparency and efficiency means we use your funds wisely and have the greatest impact on childhood cancer.

Alex's Legacy Alex's family and supporters around the world are committed to continuing her inspiring legacy through Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. Today, the Foundation has raised more than $250 million and funded over 1,000 research projects across the country.

People from all over the world, moved by her story, held their own lemonade stands and donated the proceeds to Alex and her cause. In August of 2004, Alex passed away at the age of eight, knowing that, with the help of others, she had raised more than $1 million to help find a cure for the disease that took her life.

Here are our six business takeaways from the lemonade stand:

• Good business ideas are easy to come up with - the hard part is execution.
• Start with what you know.
• It doesn't need to be perfect to get started.
• Be relentless in developing the idea.
• Give to get.
• People need other people.

A shopkeeper in New York City erected a stand outside his store and sold lemonade to passersby. The stand was so popular that a little crowd gathered there each day and blocked the sidewalk, leading authorities to intervene.

Starting a lemonade stand can help kids develop important entrepreneurial skills, such as financial management, marketing, and communication. Through this experience, children can learn how to create a business plan, set prices, manage inventory, and promote their product.

Lemonade stands are for many children a summer tradition, a way to pass the time and earn some money when they aren't in school. They can also teach kids valuable lessons in business and personal finance that they won't necessarily learn in the classroom.

October 14, 1984 (age 39 years)Alex Scott / Date of birth Alexandra Virina Scott MBE (born 14 October 1984) is an English sports presenter, pundit, and former professional footballer who mostly played as a right-back for Arsenal in the FA WSL. She made 140 appearances for the England national team and represented Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The lemonade stand is a widely used and recognized symbol of capitalism and in particular entrepreneurship. The selling of lemonade on the streets of New York can be traced back to when a New York youngster sold it to thirsty street car riders over 130 years ago. Its connection to youthful entrepreneurship has endured.

In an interview explaining the concept behind the album, she is reported to have said: 'I wanted to show the historical impact of slavery on black love, and what it has done to the black family, and black men and women - how we're almost socialized not to be together.

It is traditionally a homemade drink using lemon juice, water, and a sweetener such as cane sugar, simple syrup, maple syrup or honey. In the United Kingdom, Ireland, Central Europe, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, a carbonated lemonade soft drink is more common.