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Board Member
Nov 2023
Employ to Empower (ETE) is a Vancouver-based charity that empowers people who face barriers through entrepreneurship. Our vision is that every person has the opportunity to achieve self-reliance, financial well-being, a sense of belonging, and contribution to the community. ETE offers a 10-week business skills training program, personalized mentorship, and self advocacy opportunities.
Almost 1/4 of the Downtown Eastside (DTES) residents are striving to become entrepreneurs as an avenue for earning an income. Since 2018, weve empowered 298 entrepreneurs that have started businesses in the areas of mental health, office cleaning, art and crafts, and more.
Board Member
Apr 2018
YELL is a registered Canadian charity equipping young leaders for an increasingly uncertain future. Our network of educators, partners, and mentors create experiences that expose youth to the stories, skills, ideas, and technologies that have the potential to radically change our future. Together, we invest in young minds and create experience beyond our years.
YELL's flagship program enhances student learning experiences in pre-existing courses, such as Entrepreneurship 12 or E-Commerce 12. Students who complete these courses receive credits towards their high school graduation, gain experiences that are invaluable for broad-based university applications and admissions, and build relationships and connections with leaders in their community.
In general, all YELL courses
- Give students credit towards their graduation
- Feature cutting edge stories and ideas. YELL invites 10 or more local guest speakers into the classroom to talk about what they do and how they got to where they are today, while also engaging in a Q&A with the class. Speakers come
- Connect youth to mentors. YELL matches groups of students to a mentor to help them come up with and then prove out the viability of an entrepreneurial venture
- Offer one-of-a-kind experiences. Whether its a tour of a local company, a panel of young entrepreneurs, or pitching your entrepreneurial venture to investors at YELL's Venture Challenge - YELL creates experiences that further prepare and equip youth for the future.
- Utilize YELL content. YELL educators utilize and build upon YELL's content and materials. YELL content is contributed to by YELL's network of content partners, and continually improved upon and updated by YELL staff, YELL educators, and student feedback.
Some of the provinces' leading and most innovative school districts are already working with YELL, and over the next few years, YELL will be taking its new approach to partnering in the classroom across BC and Canada
Board Member
Feb 2014
RADIUS is a community dedicated to (re)building a regenerative economy where all can flourish. We believe this transformed economy will be built by community-led solutions and the redistribution of leadership, centring those who are historically and persistently marginalised.
To support our vision, we deliver programs to collaboratively develop, test, and advance innovative responses to tough socioeconomic problems and offer consulting and training services that draw on this leading-edge work.
RADIUS acknowledges it operates on the unceded, traditional, and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), q̓íc̓əy̓ (Katzie), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Qayqayt, Kwantlen, Semiahmoo, and Tsawwassen peoples on whose unceded traditional territories the three SFU campuses reside.
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2023
Board Member
Nov 2023
Employ to Empower (ETE) is a Vancouver-based charity that empowers people who face barriers through entrepreneurship. Our vision is that every person has the opportunity to achieve self-reliance, financial well-being, a sense of belonging, and contribution to the community. ETE offers a 10-week business skills training program, personalized mentorship, and self advocacy opportunities.
Almost 1/4 of the Downtown Eastside (DTES) residents are striving to become entrepreneurs as an avenue for earning an income. Since 2018, weve empowered 298 entrepreneurs that have started businesses in the areas of mental health, office cleaning, art and crafts, and more.
2020
Board Member
2020
New Ventures BC is a non-profit organization that recognizes, encourages, and supports entrepreneurship in BC’s technology sector.
Each year we run the New Ventures BC Competition, the largest and longest-running tech competition in BC, offering education, coaching and awarding $250,000 and prizes to BC startups. We offer a mentored, Distance Venture Acceleration Program focused on customer discovery and Market Validation Training. Through our Innovator Skills Initiative grant program we give tech companies and startups, up to $10,000 a year to hire a BC post-secondary student.
2018
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PowerPlay Young Entrepreneurs
Board Member
Oct 2018
Board Member
Apr 2018
YELL is a registered Canadian charity equipping young leaders for an increasingly uncertain future. Our network of educators, partners, and mentors create experiences that expose youth to the stories, skills, ideas, and technologies that have the potential to radically change our future. Together, we invest in young minds and create experience beyond our years.
YELL's flagship program enhances student learning experiences in pre-existing courses, such as Entrepreneurship 12 or E-Commerce 12. Students who complete these courses receive credits towards their high school graduation, gain experiences that are invaluable for broad-based university applications and admissions, and build relationships and connections with leaders in their community.
In general, all YELL courses
- Give students credit towards their graduation
- Feature cutting edge stories and ideas. YELL invites 10 or more local guest speakers into the classroom to talk about what they do and how they got to where they are today, while also engaging in a Q&A with the class. Speakers come
- Connect youth to mentors. YELL matches groups of students to a mentor to help them come up with and then prove out the viability of an entrepreneurial venture
- Offer one-of-a-kind experiences. Whether its a tour of a local company, a panel of young entrepreneurs, or pitching your entrepreneurial venture to investors at YELL's Venture Challenge - YELL creates experiences that further prepare and equip youth for the future.
- Utilize YELL content. YELL educators utilize and build upon YELL's content and materials. YELL content is contributed to by YELL's network of content partners, and continually improved upon and updated by YELL staff, YELL educators, and student feedback.
Some of the provinces' leading and most innovative school districts are already working with YELL, and over the next few years, YELL will be taking its new approach to partnering in the classroom across BC and Canada
2016
Innovation Leader
Jun 2016
Our vision
To help small and medium-sized businesses grow, improve conditions for investment, build an efficient and competitive marketplace, increase Canada’s share of global trade, support science, build capacity for clean and sustainable technologies and processes, and promote tourism.
Our opportunities
ISED offers a wide variety of unique career opportunities and prioritizes advancement, professional development and continuing education. Employees have the opportunity to join employee-led networks, participate in on-the-job training, and access other career development tools and programs to continuously progress on a professional and personal level.
Job opportunities
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/job-opportunities/en
Terms and conditions
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/terms-and-conditions/terms-and-conditions#media
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Notre vision
Aider les petites et moyennes entreprises à croître, créer un climat propice à l’investissement, créer un marché efficace et concurrentiel, accroître la présence canadienne sur les marchés mondiaux, soutenir les sciences, renforcer les capacités en matière de technologies et de procédés propres et durables et promouvoir le tourisme.
Possibilités de carrière
En tant qu’employeur, ISDE offre une gamme diversifiée de possibilités de carrière uniques et favorise l’avancement, le perfectionnement professionnel et la formation continue. Les employés ont l’occasion d’intégrer des réseaux dirigés par leurs collègues, de participer à une formation en cours d’emploi et d’accéder à d’autres outils et programmes de développement de carrière pour poursuivre leur avancement sur les plans professionnel et personnel.
Possibilités d’emploi
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/possibilites-emplois/fr
Conditions
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/isde/fr/avis/conditions#mediasociaux
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