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- Family Office
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- Giving back – Engaging in Philanthropy
- Governance System
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- Rural Family Business Development
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- Succession and Transitions
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What We Do
BFF provides a gateway to powerful educational experiences that help family enterprises address their unique challenges. Using a multi-faceted, collaborative approach, BFF connects business families with meaningful educational support.
BFF is driven by its unique combination of three pillars of activity:
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We support the development and growth of an international network of University-based Centres for family enterprises to sustain regional help to business families
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We produce and disseminate high-quality, multimedia assisted educational material for business families, professionals working with business families, and undergraduate & graduate students, and
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We train, coach and connect an international team of facilitators and mentors using BFF educational material and other support material to assist local communities
The result is a wide range of effective educational solutions: from online courses that allow you to begin addressing your business family's challenges right now, to multi-day workshops delivered with our partners that allow your family to learn and solve issues together.
BFF Activities - The Three Pillars
- aTo support the establishment
and continuity of an international
network of University-based
Centres for
Family Enterprises - b To produce and
distribute multimedia
assisted educational material
for use with Business Families,
Professionals and Students - c To train, coach &
connect an international
team of Facilitators / Mentors
in using BFF material to assist
Business Families, Professionals
and Students
These activities are made possible through business families supporting the BFF Global Education Fund.
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Did you know?
In establishing the Business Families Foundation, our goal was to help entrepreneurial families address their particular challenges and grow their business, at a time where very little support was offered to them.
In the past 20 years, we have achieved significant milestones. These include:
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Helping develop University-based Centres for Family Enterprises across Canada
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Teaching hundreds of business families members worldwide
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Training professional advisors to support business families in a way that is relevant and meaningful to them
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Training over 60 facilitators in using BFF educational material with local communities
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Encouraging the development of outstanding research in the field of family business
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Creating innovative audio-visual assisted educational programs
“We came to ask some questions and we got a whole book of answers. We came to get some advice and you provided a whole team of experts. All I can say is a most sincere thanks.”
Business family participating
in a BFF workshop






