Independent Business Foundation (IBF) Charitable Educational Objectives

1. Management education suitable and sufficient to meet the customer and supplier demands of a commercial/trade business in the 22nd Century.
2. Training the experienced small/medium sector business manager at an advanced and tertiary level.
3. Scholarships to enable promising young business owners/managers to undergo tertiary management training in NZ and overseas.
4. Devices and methods to enhance the standing and image of small business as a career choice.
5. Incentives to tertiary educational institutes to provide courses and modules tailored to the demands of small business management.
6. Research into small business practices and success/failures to provide suitable case study material in the teaching of applicable management subjects.
7. Identifying and recognising entrepreneurial and innovative talent and accomplishment.
8. Encouraging and supporting ingenuity and originality with competent and accountable assistance.
9. Facilitating R & D with referrals to sources of research grants.
10. Changing the mind-set and culture of small business in favour of self-reliance and self-improvement.