lakehead 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 connect with aboriginal entrepreneurs
(march 16 " thunder bay, on)
a team of 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 has won a prestigious entrepreneurs first! grant from the business development bank of canada (bdc).
lakehead's 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 in free enterprise (sife) beat out 50 other sife teams to win a $2,500 dollar award.
their proposal, the aboriginal economic development program, will help northwestern ontario aboriginal entrepreneurs enhance their business skills and stimulate economic growth in aboriginal communities.
five other sife clubs in canada were also successful. sife is an international organization with more than 1,600 teams making it the largest non-profit post-secondary student club in the world.
"we knew the competition would be fierce," said allison o'shea, sife lakehead president. "it forced us to think both about what makes us unique as well as sife's mission to increase the quality of life and standard of living through the positive power of business."
she and her team focused
their entrepreneurial expertise on northwestern ontario's aboriginal community.
"the many aboriginal communities in our region have an outstanding ability to generateinnovative
ideas and to produce beautiful, creative, and unique products, yet so often,
these strengths go unrecognized," o'shea said. "sife lakehead wants to equip
aboriginal communities in and around thunder bay with the resources and
knowledge to turn their ideas into progressive and profitable action."
sife partnered with the nishnawbe aski development fund (nadf). nadf, which provides loans, tools, andbusiness support servicesto aboriginalentrepreneurs, worked with sife to offer programming geared to the needs of existing and prospective aboriginal businesses.
the business development
bank of canada was also impressed with the lakehead proposal. "i am excited to work with this
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to put local entrepreneurs first and
fuel our community's economy," said lori j. desimone, senior client
relationship officer, bdc and advisor to the sife lakehead team.
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president brian stevenson said the focus on aboriginal
communities supports his vision to improve the wellbeing of first nations
people by ensuring that they have access to the resources they need to thrive
and prosper.
"congratulations to all
sife lakehead team members for their inventive approach to entrepreneurship and
for recognizing the critical role aboriginal communities have to play in creating
an economically vibrant northwestern ontario," stevenson said.
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