Children & Education
Inspiring, empowering and nurturing Canada’s youth
Our children are destined to inherit the earth—along with its abundant blessings and challenges. As guardians, it’s our responsibility to provide them with the support they need to build an optimistic future.
The Benefaction Children and Education Portfolio supports Canadian organizations that bestow the next generation with an understanding of the challenges they face and a strong sense of self-empowerment. All charities are anchored in the belief that every child is entitled to grow up in a safe, healthy and nurturing environment with opportunities that allow them to achieve their potential.
Purpose: To support programs and services that encourage children to achieve their potential as future leaders through education, training, counselling and self-empowerment programs.
Key Initiatives
• Providing qualified young Canadians with the financing, mentoring and business
resources they need to realize their dreams of starting and running
successful businesses.
• Offering tools, support and tutoring in all provinces to improve literacy skills and,
ultimately, increase the future earning potential of disadvantaged Canadians.
• Preventing diseases in children by training and supporting health care providers
internationally.
Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF)
www.cybf.ca
Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) is a national charity dedicated to growing our nation’s economy one young entrepreneur at a time. They look at character not collateral, when providing youth, age 18-34, with pre-launch coaching, start-up financing, mentoring and business resources, to start and sustain a successful business. Founded in 1996, CYBF has invested to date in more than 2,500 young entrepreneurs, whose businesses have generated more than $284 million in sales revenue, $66 million in tax revenue, $30 million in export revenue, and created more than 14,000 new jobs. Through CYBF’s national network of community partners, we are able to deliver our program to more than 1,200 communities with 2,300 volunteers across Canada. Information about CYBF is available at www.cybf.ca
Frontier College
www.frontiercollege.ca
Frontier College is a national literacy organization founded in 1899. It provides vital literacy programs to 15,000 children, youth and adults each year. It's programs - Reading Circles for children, Homework Clubs for youth and One-To-One Tutoring for Adults - are provided free by 2,500 volunteers. With 42% of adult Canadians struggling to read a bedtime story to their children and help their kids with their homework, it is not surprising to know that low literacy skills are shockingly high and directly linked to poverty, poor health and high unemployment. Through its programs, Frontier transforms lives through literacy.
HealthyKids International (HKI)
www.healthykidsinternational.com
HealthyKids International (HKI) is a groundbreaking initiative designed to transform children's healthcare on a global scale. Founded by SickKids Foundation in 2007, HealthyKids International supports the sharing of knowledge among the world's best pediatric specialists with the goals of improving children's health, helping build capacity, and ensuring that this wealth of knowledge is sustainable through strategic resourcing. HKI's goal is to dramatically enhance health systems around the world, thereby ensuring that all children have access to the best possible healthcare. Our vision is, Healthier Children. A Better World.
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