Build a Biz Kids

Build a Biz Kids Providing progressive, future-ready education and real-world, hands-on experiences for all children

📣 ATTENTION PAC PARENTS!What if your next school fundraiser was one you actually LOVE running? 🙌BizKids is inviting PAC ...
10/12/2026

📣 ATTENTION PAC PARENTS!
What if your next school fundraiser was one you actually LOVE running? 🙌

BizKids is inviting PAC leaders across Canada to help us shape a brand-new fundraising program launching in 2027!

✨ Imagine a fundraiser where:
💰 Your school keeps a flat 40% of every sale!
🎨 All of the marketing materials are created for you, making it simple to promote and run.
🤩 Kids get to sell products they're excited about, while parents get something they genuinely want to buy for their kids: engaging experiences that build confidence, develop future-ready skills, and inspire creativity, independence, and an entrepreneurial mindset.

Every purchase also helps Build a Biz Kids, a Canadian charity, bring these life-changing experiences to children who might otherwise never have access. ❤️

And the best part? We want YOU to help us build it!

We're meeting with PAC parents and leaders to understand what works, what doesn't, and what would make fundraising easier, more rewarding, and more successful for your school.
Whether you've run dozens of fundraisers or are just getting started, we'd love your input!

💬 Interested in helping shape the future of school fundraising?

Complete this quick contact form or reach out with questions!

Let's create a fundraiser that schools love, parents value, and kids benefit from!
➡️https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJKoqgnFtBwiGocjMlnUGArCtZayVL27kM3anoCYkqCWp6aw/viewform?usp=header

Would you rather your child succeed at everything… or learn to bounce back from anything? 🤔It sounds like a trick questi...
10/11/2026

Would you rather your child succeed at everything… or learn to bounce back from anything? 🤔

It sounds like a trick question, but it's not — and the answer might surprise you. When youth never get the chance to struggle, they're often less prepared when a real challenge finally arrives. Instead of building resilience, an easy road can quietly teach children to avoid anything they're not already good at. 🏃‍➡️

Research on growth mindset shows that children praised for effort (not outcomes) don’t experience setbacks as devastating. They experience them as data. As practice. As part of getting better. 💪

We see this in real time at every BizKids Market. Young entrepreneurs pitch their products to real strangers, and for every "yes," there are dozens of "no thanks" and walk-bys. The kidpreneurs who grow the most from the experience aren't the ones with the best product — they're the ones who learn to read a "no," adjust, and try again anyway. That's not failure. That's the whole point. 💡

📖 Learn more about why failure is actually a good thing in the full article!
👉 https://buildabizkids.com/if-your-child-isnt-failing-they-will-still-lose/

One of the biggest reasons more people don't invest in the stock market is simply because, they don't know how. It sound...
10/09/2026

One of the biggest reasons more people don't invest in the stock market is simply because, they don't know how. It sounds intimidating, complicated and risky 🌟📈

But understanding investing is a big part of financial literacy, and building wealth.

So, how do we help this become more "normal", common, and accessible?

That is exactly the question BizKids and CIRO sat down and decided to answer together. And what is in the works is something we have never been more excited about. 🎉

Introducing BizKids Investor Lab — and the very first course in the series: Become a Stock Market Investor 💛

This is an interactive, hands-on course for youth ages 7–13 in Grades 2–9 — and it is unlike anything that has ever existed for this age group. Because for most people, the stock market feels overwhelming, complicated, risky, and like something that other people do. Something for someone else. Something too intimidating to even look at. 💪

In Become a Stock Market Investor, students dive into the real concepts that make the stock market tick — what value actually means, what makes a good investment, learn when to buy and when to sell, and so much more. Not in a dry, textbook way. In the most engaging, interactive, accessible, and genuinely exciting way we know how to build. 🙌

It is not designed to create the next Warren Buffett. It is designed to make the stock market feel normal. Attainable. Like a real, viable option that belongs in every person's financial toolkit. 💰 ✨

Because if a child grows up with a sense of how money moves — with more options for what to do with it, and the confidence to actually try — imagine the financial future they get to build for themselves as they grow into teenagers and young adults. 🤩

This course will be released into classrooms and community organizations across Canada in early 2027. And we cannot wait for every child who goes through it to walk away thinking — I can do this. 🚀

A huge, heartfelt thank you to / OCRI for partnering with us on this incredible project. This is what it looks like when the right organizations come together for the right reason. 🙏

Stay tuned. This is just the beginning of the BizKids Investor Lab series. 🌱

The most powerful time to support a young person's mental wellness is before they are in crisis. 🤲That is the prevention...
10/08/2026

The most powerful time to support a young person's mental wellness is before they are in crisis. 🤲

That is the prevention-over-intervention philosophy at the heart of the BizKids Indigenous Youth Entrepreneur Program — and it is exactly why we are seeking donors to help bring it to more First Nations communities across Canada. 🧡

The path to long-term mental wellness is deeply connected to what this program is specifically designed to build: self-confidence, resilience, opportunities for meaningful participation, and a supportive environment that truly reflects who they are. 🙌

These Future-Ready skills are what helps youth mental wellness — the foundations that protect a young person from the inside out, long before intervention becomes necessary.

Designed for youth ages 7–15 and taught by actual Indigenous youth from Nations across Canada, this hands-on, self-paced program puts young people inside the full experience of building a real business — from ideating and creating their own product, to understanding how money and value work. Every step of that journey is an opportunity to build something that goes far deeper than business skills. It lets them believe in themselves and their own abilites. 💪

This special program for Indigenous youth was created in partnership with Bears' Lair Dream Camps, and supported by TELUS Friendly Future Foundation — their help made this all possible. 🤝

This is prevention at its most powerful. Not a crisis response — but a foundation built early, built deeply, and built to last. 🌱

Your donation funds the self-confidence, the resilience, and the long-term mental wellness of Indigenous youth who deserve every opportunity to thrive. 🚀

Help bring this to more communities ✨
https://buildabizkids.com/donate/

10/06/2026

Every great mission starts somewhere. Ours started with an 8-year old seeking to experience more. 🌟

Watch our Co-founder and CEO Leah Coss tell the story of how it all began — In 2018, Braden Ricketts — BizKids’ Co-founder — watched his son Ethan come home upset. One classroom at his school was learning how to start a business. His was not. And Ethan wanted to be a part of that. 🤲

✨ That moment sparked a question that changed everything: what if every child could have a safe, accessible, real-world introduction to entrepreneurship — regardless of which classroom they happened to be sitting in?

So in 2018, BizKids was registered as a charity. Because from the very beginning, the mission was about access. The belief that every child, regardless of their circumstances, deserves the chance to experience real-world learning that builds the skills that actually matter. 🚀

💪 Communication. Problem-solving. Financial literacy. Leadership. Self-trust. Not taught through textbooks or memorization — but built through the genuine, hands-on experience of creating something real and discovering what they are capable of along the way.

Explore what BizKids has grown into since that moment in 2018. 🌱

👉 Learn more about our mission:
https://buildabizkids.com/about/

10/04/2026

🤔 We asked our kidpreneurs: "What goals do you have for yourself at this market?"

They did not talk just about making the most sales. They talked about becoming better. About getting more comfortable talking to strangers. About learning to attract more customers. About pushing through the nerves of public speaking. About learning to handle rejection gracefully — to hear "no thank you" from a customer and keep going anyway with their head held high. 💪

These children are not just learning how to run a business. They are learning how to navigate the real world — with resilience, with confidence, and with the kind of growth mindset that will serve them in every single area of their lives. 🧡

That is what makes the BizKids Winter Market so much more than a shopping event. Behind every single vendor table is a young person who showed up with a personal goal — not just a product to sell, but a version of themselves they are determined to grow into. 🌱

And your support makes this growth possible. ✨ Come watch these incredible young entrepreneurs set their goals, face their challenges, and grow in real time — in front of 10,000 community members who get to be a part of their journey. 💫

📅 November 28, 2026
📍 The City of Lougheed Mall
👉 https://buildabizkids.com/bizkids-market/

10/02/2026

Some partnerships are not just good business. They are meant to be. 🌟

When David Chalk, CEO of Reading Road AI, met our Co-founder and CEO Leah Coss and heard about the BizKids Angel Investor program — something clicked. The idea of investing directly in a young entrepreneur and being a genuine part of their story was something that resonated deeply with him. 🙌

🤩 And when he heard about Mmesoma — the published author and founder of Books & More — the connection was impossible to ignore.

Road is built on the belief that every child deserves the opportunity to learn how to read — through personalized, intelligent technology that builds confidence and opens doors to a lifetime of learning. And Mmesoma? She writes the children's books that make young readers fall in love with stories in the first place. 📖❤️

David did not just see a sponsorship opportunity. He saw a shared mission. Two organizations — one powered by technology, one powered by the imagination of a young kidpreneur — both working toward the same beautiful goal: a world where every child discovers the joy and the power of reading. 😆

Thank you, David Chalk and Reading Road AI, for Angel Investing in Mmesoma and her Books & More, showing up for her in the most meaningful, visible, and community-driven way possible. 🌱

We woke up to the best kind of surprise! 🌟💛The BizKids Markets just got a wonderful shout out in a CBC article — and we ...
09/30/2026

We woke up to the best kind of surprise! 🌟💛

The BizKids Markets just got a wonderful shout out in a CBC article — and we are absolutely over the moon about it. 🎉

Seeing the incredible rise of kidpreneurs and kids markets across Canada being celebrated in a piece like this — and knowing that what we have been building at BizKids is part of that growing movement — is something we do not take for granted for even a single moment. 💪

A huge thank you to CBC/Radio-Canada and to writer Catherine Zhu for shining a light on the young entrepreneurs who are showing up, building something real, and proving every single day that age is absolutely no barrier to big ideas and even bigger ambitions. 🚀

📖 Go give it a read — https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/kids-entrepreneurship-business-canada-9.7349409

Trying anything for the first time is always the hardest. And the most impactful. 🙌A parent recently wrote about their d...
09/29/2026

Trying anything for the first time is always the hardest. And the most impactful. 🙌

A parent recently wrote about their daughter's first experience at a BizKids Market, and we couldn't be more thrilled about the results. 🤩

"Our daughter participated for the first time and loved the event! She gained more confidence in working with the public and met so many other young vendors. This is a great program for young minds to try entrepreneurship! All the volunteers and staff were also great and provided support when needed." ❤️

Her first BizKids market. Her first time selling her products in front of 20,000+ attendees, holding conversations with strangers in the real world – and coming out the other side more confident than when she walked in. 💪

🚀 That is not a small thing. That is one of the most meaningful shifts that can happen in a young person's development.

Because having the confidence to speak in front of real people in an unfamiliar environment is not something that can be taught overnight. It is built in the real moment — when a child has to look a stranger in the eye, tell them about something they created, and market their products. 💬

And the support they receive along the way – from parents, BizKids volunteers, customers, and a community of like-minded kid vendors who are all doing the same brave thing – makes that first step feel like something they want to take. 🌱

That is the experience the BizKids Market creates for children. Not just sitting in a classroom — but in front of real people, in a real event, with real stakes and real rewards. The kind of experience that rewires how a young person sees themselves — from someone who hesitates to speak up, to someone who knows they can handle whatever the conversation brings. 🌟

👉 Want to learn more? Click here!
https://buildabizkids.com/about/

09/27/2026

This isn’t about raising the next great entrepreneur. It’s about something far more important than that. 🌟

Every parent knows the feeling. You watch your child struggle with self-doubt, and every instinct tells you to step in — to tell them how capable they are, how talented they are, how much they have to offer the world. And so you do. Because you mean every single word of it. ❤️

💬 But the truth is being told you are confident is not the same as feeling it. And feeling it is not the same as believing it. The compliments feel wonderful in the moment — but if a child doesn’t truly believe they have actually done something that proves it, those words can do more harm than good over time. They create a gap between what they are told they are and what they actually believe about themselves.

True, authentic, lasting confidence is not built through words. It is built through experience. Through making a real decision and living with the outcome. Through facing something hard and finding a way through it. Through building something — entirely on their own — and discovering, in the most undeniable way possible, that they are capable. 💪

🙌 That is what the BizKids Launch Your Business program is designed to create.

Not a shortcut to entrepreneurship. An experience — taken at their own pace, from the comfort of home — where your child makes their own decisions, builds their own business, and earns their own confidence in the only way that actually sticks: by proving it to themselves. ✨

You are there every step of the way. Supporting them. Cheering them on. Giving them the space they need to figure things out independently — because that independence is where the real confidence lives. 🚀

You cannot give your child confidence. But you can give them the experience that lets them build it themselves. 🌱

👉 Provide them this opportunity today
https://buildabizkids.com/solopreneur-course/

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