Aim Higher to Achieve More: How A Charity Grew by 15x With Less
Since 2018, BizKids Registered Charity has been running successful future-ready programs for children that taught entrepreneurship, financial literacy, public speaking, digital literacy, STEM and more, but something wasn’t adding up. While our impact was undeniable, our ability to scale was limited by time, money, and logistics. The question loomed: How could we grow without simply […]
BizKids Programs Reach More Canadian Kids Than Ever Before
The goal that we set for all of 2023 was to reach 30% more Canadian kids than pre-COVID. What happened was even more incredible!
Education Grant Available for BC Non-Profits & Schools
This combination of In-Kind & Funding Grant provides eligible schools & organizations with future-ready programs that include both physical and digital curriculum, tools, materials and resources.
The Exciting Journey of Creating Our Future-Ready Educator Packages for Educators in British Columbia!
At Build a Biz Kids, we have been busy putting together our Future-Ready Educator Packages in preparation for our first deliveries to schools, libraries, and non-profits in British Columbia!
This was our incredible journey!
Never Tell Your Child They Are Smart
I, like many parents, have an innate fear that I will screw up my child in some way. One day, I will say that one thing that completely screws them up. I will be having a bad day, my patience will be low and BAM. It will fly out of my mouth and I will never be able to take it back. Their confidence will plumit, they will throw it back at me when they are 18 and angry at me, and any sadness they have, I know it will because I failed them that day.
Well, that may happen, but I have something significantly more scary to share with you.
Our Box of Good News
This last News Years our family started a new tradition. It was something you may have seen on Pintrest or other idea boards. It’s the Jar of Good News!
For those of you unfamiliar, this is a jar where you place your happy moments and accomplishments that you experience throughout your year and then on New Years Eve, you go through them one by one to reflect & relive those moments all over again. Neat right?
Here’s the thing. Last year we
4 Successful Summer Camps, Over $1000 Raised for Charities
What a Summer!!??!! A HUGE thank you to all of our parents, students & community who supported our KidPreneur Summer Camps! And of course, a Gigantic thank you to Vancity for the support and use of their facilities and our friends at each of the local grocers we were able to set up shop with! We couldn’t […]
What Will My Kids Takeaway After Their Program?
Often as parents, when we spend money and time on our children, we, rightly so, ask ourselves what is the value in this? What will they takeaway or learn? Is it worth it? This summer we are wrapping up the last of our summer camp programs and kids from 7-12 years have walked through as […]
Is What You “Know” Losing You Money?
Today was one of the more interesting days for seeing development in our students during our Build a Biz Kids Lemonade Stand Challenge Summer Camp. Day 3 is all about creating prototypes of their product and then test marketing them with real people; A critical step in any business but more often than not, it’s […]
Being Aware While Still Having Fun!
This weekend was a fun filled event for Build a Biz Kids. We were honoured to be volunteering at the Port Moody RibFest in the Kids Center where we had an information booth along with 3 games for kids of all ages. If you haven’t been to RibFest before, you missed out on a great event so be sure to […]