For Immediate Release - Small Business Week
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Who Leads the Entrepreneurship Pack?
Toronto, ON, Canada
Peru, Uganda, Ecuador, Jordan and New Zealand are the world's top five most entrepreneurial countries.and Canada? It's a distant twelfth - Canadians generally don't sufficiently promote nor encourage entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is critical to Canada; it helps drive its economy domestically and internationally.
For Canada and young entrepreneurs, there's an organization that celebrates Small Business Week everyday. It's championing this cultural shift by actively supporting youth entrepreneurship - it's the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF). CYBF provides start-up financing based on character and strong ideas, with guidance along the way by qualified profile-matched mentors and practical on-line learning resources. From trades, to retail, to high tech, CYBF supports entrepreneurs in a variety of fields.
"I believe that Canada can expand its boundaries through small businesses like ours and have an incredible impact in the international community. It takes support from CYBF to help entrepreneurs like myself to realize this potential," says Harry Chemko, whose company, Elastic Path Software Inc., was listed fourteeth in the PROFIT HOT 50 ranking. His company services clients like Xerox. Harry's had an international impact himself, through attending the 'Young Entrepreneurs of the Americas Forum for the Participation of the Civil Society in the Process of the Summit of the Americas' in Argentina this year.
Also across the globe this year was young Canadian entrepreneur Ceilidh McClurg. She represented Canada at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation's workshop on women's e-business training. Ceilidh's the CEO of Extend Marketing, and the 2005 Alberta CYBF Best Business Award winner. "I hope more young business-minded people will take advantage of the opportunities CYBF provides, as it's been such a rewarding experience for me," says Ceilidh.
"The Canadian economy urgently requires new, innovative entrepreneurial businesses to create good jobs and new products and services that make the Canadian economy competitive in foreign markets," says Eileen Fischer, Director of Entrepreneurial Studies at York University's Schulich School of Business. "The CYBF is an organization that can help encourage the creation of such businesses."
CYBF's CEO, Vivian Woytiuk adds, "CYBF's collaboration with the private and public sector compels Canadians to embrace entrepreneurship as a viable, and indeed, primary career choice for youth. As such, CYBF celebrates Small Business Week and its accompanying awareness of small business' importance to us all."
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About The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF)
- The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF), a national charitable organization, provides start-up financing, mentoring and educational resources to enable Canadians age 18-34 create new business enterprises.
- Since founded in 1996, CYBF has financed over 1,500 young entrepreneurs, whose businesses have generated $160 million in gross sales, $37 million in tax revenue and more then 8000 new jobs.
- CYBF’s annual Young Entrepreneur and Volunteer Award Program honours those whose dedication to their business or their commitment as a volunteer has resulted in outstanding success.
- CYBF is modeled after The Prince’s Trust and works in collaboration with the private and public sectors to deliver their programs.
- CYBF is an accredited program of Youth Business International (YBI) an international network of youth business programs. HRH The Prince of Wales is a YBI patron.
- CYBF is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with offices across Canada.
About Youth Business International (YBI), www.youth-business.org
- Youth Business International (YBI) is a program of The Prince Of Wales International Business Leaders Forum.
- YBI is an international network of Youth Business programs helping disadvantaged young people to become entrepreneurs by providing business mentoring and seed financing.
About The Prince's Trust, www.princes-trust.org.uk
- The Prince's Trust exists to help young people overcome their barriers and get their lives back on track. Through practical support including training, mentoring and financial assistance, it helps 14-30 year-olds to realize their potential and transform their lives.
- The Trust focuses its efforts on young people who have struggled at school, have been in care, are long-term unemployed or have been in trouble with the law.
- Since the charity was founded by HRH The Prince of Wales in 1976, it has helped more than half a million young people.
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