Support and Education

Youth Business and Entrepreneurship:

If you’re a Youth and have ever thought about starting a business this section is dedicated to you. A directory to help you get you feet on the ground, a variety of links and supports that will help you in starting and operating your own business.

Click on any of the following title or details:

• Youth Employment Initiatives
  Programs, Services and Information
  
• Student Business Connection Program
  As an Industry Canada and Youth Employment Strategy program, the Student Connection Program (SCP) was created to foster youth employment and to introduce Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the power of the Internet.
  
• Youth-Business
  YBI is a global network of youth business initiatives whose purpose is to help young people work for themselves by providing them with business mentoring, local advice and support and access to finance.
  
• Youth Business.com
  Where Young Entrepreneurs come together
  
• Open for Business
  Got a business idea? Don't quite know what to do with it? Come into Open for Business (OFB). We've got a dynamic environment where you can discover, develop and fine-tune your business skills. Talk to one of our Entrepreneurship Apprentices (EAs). We can help you take that great idea and turn into an exciting entrepreneurial adventure.
  
• Youthpreneursonline
  This is your opportunity to grow a business with YOL. Learn all you need to know to develop your idea into a moneymaking venture.
  
• Youth Entrepreneurship
  ABORIGINAL BUSINESS CANADA provides business services and support to Canadian Aboriginal peoples. This document describes how we work with you, what we look for and how we can help your "youth" business succeed.
  
• Sports Business Research Network
  SBRnet is a fee-based service, focusing on the sporting goods and sports marketing industry. It's mission is to provide a continuously updated resource featuring market research and industry news covering all facets of the industry…sports equipment sales, sports participation, sports broadcasting, sports sponsorship and sports marketing.
  
• Young Biz.com
  The mission of Young Biz is to empower youth with entrepreneurial, business, and financial skills through innovative education and real-world experience.
  
• Young Entrepreneur.com
  YoungEntrepreneur.com seeks to establish and maintain a unique position among member-based communities online as being the most comprehensive source for Young Entrepreneurs and new business start-ups.
  
• Canadian Youth Business Foundation Small Business Centre
  "to help young people who would not otherwise have the opportunity to develop their self-confidence, achieve economic independence fulfill their ambitions and contribute to the community through the medium of self-employment and job creation"
  
• High School Start-ups.com
  The Nuts and bolts of running and Internet company
  
• The Kids Show
  Want to start a business? Or a club? Or a sports league? Provide a school or community service? Believe in your idea and yourself and you're well on your way. That's the basic philosophy of Youth Venture a program that helps adolescents start their own businesses.
  
• Nishnawbe-Aski Development Fund
  The Youth Business Loan Fund (YBL) is a financial institution established to provide direct business loans to Aboriginal youth of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation.
  
• Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs
  The Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs inspires and prepares young Canadians to pursue entrepreneurial possibilities.
  
• Youth Opportunities.com
  Youth Search Engine
  
• The Institute For Enterprise Education
  The Youth Entrepreneurship Program is one of the longest running programs at the Institute for Enterprise Education. Highly interactive, this energized and success-bearing course runs on a full-time basis for 26 weeks, with opportunities and inspiration for creating positive changes in one's life.
  
• Aboriginal Youth Business Council
  Aboriginal Youth Business Council is a volunteer run, non-profit, youth-driven council of First Nation, Metis, & Inuit entrepreneurs.
  
• Canadian Youth Business Foundation
  The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) is the only national organization in Canada that enables young entrepreneurs to pursue their aspirations of building successful enterprises by providing business assistance not otherwise accessible to them.
  
• Junior Achievement
  Junior Achievement (JA) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to educating and inspiring young people about business and economics.
  
• The Entrepreneurship Institute of Canada
  The Entrepreneurship Institute of Canada has, since 1986,distributed publications, videos, audio's, software, and CD's of interest to entrepreneurs across Canada and to other countries.
  
• SEDI Programs
  SEDI is comprised of staff and volunteers working in a charitable, non-profit context to promote self-employment and savings as viable roads to self-sufficiency for poor, unemployed and underemployed Canadians.
  
• Youth Employment Information HRDC
  The Youth Initiatives Directorate is responsible for the development of initiatives to assist youth in making successful transitions to the labour market. Through youth programs and services we assist youth in preparing for, obtaining and maintaining employment, and in making successful transitions into the labour market.
  
• The Entrepreneurship Centre
  The Entrepreneurship Centre is an initiative, of OCRI dedicated to helping entrepreneurs make educated decisions about starting and growing their businesses.
  
• Community Business Access Centre
  We are a non-profit organization located in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada that provides support and services to new entrepreneurs starting their own businesses and existing small and medium sized businesses located in York Region and the southern portion of Simcoe County.
  
• Educated Entrepreneur
  The Educated Entrepreneur web site will develop content for the one in three Canadians who either are now, or want to start up their own business in the near future. What's more, as you grow, so will we by adding content that follows your business expertise from one level to the next.
  
• Young Entrepreneurs Association
  Where the spirit of Entrepreneurship comes together.
  
• Youth Link Entrepreneurship
  Links to Youth Entrepreneur sites
  
• REALM
  REALM is the magazine about life and work in your twenties, the get-a-life guide for gutsy twentysomethings, your link to employers, industries and the info that will take you where you want to go.
  

For Self-Employment or business related courses offered through colleges, universities and other schools go to Training and Education's Where it's at section. Search under Entrepreneur Small business.