Made By Youth
Shop youth-made. Support youth futures.
Made By Youth is YEI’s youth-made marketplace, showroom, and vending platform featuring products created by young entrepreneurs across our social enterprises, student brands, and creative studios.
Every product gives youth real experience in design, production, branding, pricing, customer service, sales, and entrepreneurship.
What Is Made By Youth?
The home for YEI youth-made products.
Made By Youth brings YEI’s youth-created products together in one place. It is the umbrella for our social enterprises, student product lines, youth entrepreneur brands, pop-up vending experiences, and youth-made showroom.
Through Made By Youth, young people move from learning skills to creating real products, building brands, selling to customers, and understanding how creative work can become income.
Customers can shop candles, hair and body care products, DC culture apparel, journals, laser gifts, custom-designed products, and student-owned youth brands while directly supporting youth entrepreneurship.
YEI Social Enterprises
One marketplace. Multiple youth-made product lines.
These YEI-powered brands teach young people different parts of product development, creative entrepreneurship, customer service, production, and sales.
Scented Futures
Youth-made candles, wax melts, room sprays, and gift bundles born inside YEI’s Bard cosmetic lab.
Shop Scented Futures
Good Hair
Youth-made hair and body care products rooted in beauty, confidence, self-care, and product chemistry.
Shop Good Hair
Native
DC-inspired apparel, accessories, and culture products celebrating Chocolate City, Ward pride, and local legacy.
Shop Native
Made By Youth Journals
Youth-designed laser-cut journals featuring DC culture, HBCU pride, Greek life, affirmations, names, and custom themes.
Shop JournalsYou Dream We Design
Custom shirts, banners, journals, laser gifts, event merch, branding materials, and design services created through YEI’s youth-powered production studio.
Request Custom OrderYouth Brand Directory
Meet the young entrepreneurs behind the brands.
Made By Youth also features youth entrepreneur brands created by students in YEI programs. These young founders are building real businesses, selling products, testing ideas, pitching concepts, and learning what it takes to grow a brand.
The Youth Brand Directory highlights student-owned and student-created brands across beauty, apparel, art, food, accessories, services, wellness, lifestyle products, and creative businesses.
Real youth businesses live here.
Browse youth founders, products, business ideas, pitch winners, marketplace vendors, and emerging student brands from the Made By Youth ecosystem.
Shop by Product Type
From candles to custom merch.
Candles + Home Fragrance
Shop candles, wax melts, room sprays, and gift bundles.
Hair + Body Products
Shop body care, hair care, beauty products, and self-care items.
Shirts + Apparel
Shop DC culture apparel, youth-designed shirts, totes, and accessories.
Laser Journals
Shop DC, HBCU, Greek life, affirmation, name, and custom journal collections.
Custom Orders
Request custom shirts, banners, journals, laser gifts, and event merch.
Showroom + Vending
Made By Youth is also a real-world selling platform.
Made By Youth gives students opportunities to display, pitch, and sell their products through pop-ups, community events, vending markets, school showcases, partner activations, and YEI’s youth-made showroom.
Youth practice customer service, merchandising, product storytelling, sales goals, inventory, setup, teamwork, and money skills through real vending experiences.
Featured Product Line
Made By Youth Journals
Youth-designed laser journals created for culture, storytelling, self-expression, gifts, and custom collections.
Native DC Journals
Chocolate City, Marion Barry, Ward pride, neighborhoods, and DC legacy themes.
Greek Life Journals
Sorority and fraternity-inspired journals designed around colors, symbols, service, and legacy.
HBCU Journals
Journal designs inspired by college dreams, school pride, campus culture, and future goals.
How Youth Learn
From idea to customer.
Design
Youth create product ideas, mood boards, labels, artwork, mockups, and brand concepts.
Make
Students use creative tools, production equipment, formulas, materials, and quality checks.
Brand
Youth develop names, product stories, packaging, pricing, displays, and customer talking points.
Sell
Students vend at markets, pitch products, serve customers, track inventory, and build confidence.
Youth-Made Impact
Made By Youth turns learning into products customers can buy.
Made By Youth helps young people experience the full creative business cycle: idea development, production, branding, pricing, selling, customer service, and reinvestment.
When customers shop Made By Youth, they are supporting youth confidence, paid learning, creative skills, small business experience, and pathways into the creative economy.
Shop With Purpose
Youth ideas. Real products. Real futures.
Shop youth-made products, explore youth entrepreneur brands, request custom orders, book youth vendors, or partner with YEI to support young entrepreneurs.