We are the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF), a national charity providing start-up mentoring, financing and business resources for young Canadians, age 18-34, to create their own successful businesses.

Founded in 1996, CYBF is truly unique. It's an organization that is all about dreams, energy and momentum. It's an organization that supports youth who would not otherwise have the opportunity to realize their full potential and launch a business. It's an organization that is helping to drive the Canadian economy by leading the future development of youth entrepreneurship both domestically and internationally.

The CYBF Program

CYBF provides loans of up to $15,000 and on-line business resources that provide the foundation for new business start-ups. Additionally, what makes the critical difference between a new company's sustainable success and failure is our mandatory world-class mentoring program. CYBF individually qualifies, interviews and trains every volunteer mentor with a hand-matched CYBF entrepreneur for a minimum of 2 years during the critical start-up period.