The Mentor Match Youth Entrepreneur Program targets the individual skills and interests of Wallowa County Juniors and Seniors, while engaging them in a leadership and entrepreneurship curriculum. The project strives to introduce students to the idea of creating a business model based on passions and individual skill sets, which not only benefits youth, but promotes community and economic development in Wallowa County.
Members of the program presenting at the Chamber Awards Banquet. Members of the program show off their cookie bowls. Members of the program visit with Representative Greg Walden at a business event. Zoey Leith, winner of 2020 Top Producer and Most Likely to be an Entrepreneur Awards Shelby Graning Eggart, class of 2012, opened her own salon in Joseph.