Programs Overview

The Jesse Helms Center is the gateway organization for young students to first encounter the free-market ideas that are at the heart of our republic and our economic system and to deeply engage with those ideas in a program designed to make a durable impression. Through our programming, students don’t simply memorize terms out of a book - they develop profound and lasting connections to these principles.

Free Enterprise Leadership Challenge

The Free Enterprise Leadership Challenge is an educational program designed to give high school students the opportunity to learn about free enterprise and leadership through yearly summer camps and workshops.

Free Enterprise Now®

Free Enterprise Now® is a unique curriculum that educates students about the value of the free enterprise system.