PORTLAND, Ore. -- A local teenager organized an upcoming day-long benefit concert in order to raise money for Portland Public Schools.

Alden Harris-McCoy, 16, set up Curbside Market outside of Lincoln High School in order to raise funds by competing with convenience stores.

"I wanted to provide better service and more inexpensive items," Harris-McCoy said.

Teen Puts On School Benefit Music Fest

It all began a little more than a year ago when Harris-McCoy got a $1,000 loan from his parents to get started.

He then got a street vendor's license, a food handler's permit, insurance and permission to set up shop outside Lincoln High.

"I like having a place where students can come really close, and you know, have water and have somebody to talk to for a second," Harris-McCoy said.

He said the money that is raised from the market is going to go toward helping out causes in the community and around the world.

But Harris-McCoy's real passion is music. The teenager has already been accepted and received a four-year scholarship to Boston's Berklee College of Music.

He's using some of the profits from the Curbside Market to fund Curbstock, a music festival that he hopes will raise more than $20,000 for Portland Public Schools.

"We've got everything from blues, to world music to Irish music... including some of the best student bands in Portland," Harris-McCoy said.

The Curbstock Music Festival is happening Sunday at Oaks Park and Harris-McCoy said he plans to donate $2,000 of his money from the Curbside Market to pay for the venue.

"I don't think there's any other way, better way, that I could spend my money right now than putting on Curbstock," Harris-McCoy said.

For more information about the music festival, visit Curbstock online.