Community Futures British Columbia is the provincial association for the Community Futures Development Network of Canada, located in Mission BC. Through our 34 member offices, we provide business services and loans to new and experienced entrepreneurs in rural and remote communities, and we’ve been doing it since 1985.

Community Futures British Columbia is dedicated to promoting Truth and Reconciliation while fostering Indigenous inclusion in BC's economy. We support Indigenous entrepreneurs, celebrating their success and prosperity through diverse, equitable, and collaborative programs that contribute to more inclusive communities.

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Diabetes Canada is the nation's most trusted provider of diabetes education, research, resources, and services. We've helped millions of Canadians affected by diabetes understand it, manage it, and combat complications since 1953.

$160M invested in research

100K+ views for diabetes virtual conferences

400K+ raised for 2022 Lace Up

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The Electromagnetic Spectrum - Simplified

Welcome to Dr. Magda Havas’s personal website – dedicated to the study of electromagnetic fields (EMF) and electromagnetic radiation (EMR).

Dr. Magda Havas does research on the biological effects of non-ionizing frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum. This includes extremely low frequency (ELF) EMFs; intermediate frequencies (IF) commonly referred to as dirty electricity; radio frequency and microwave radiation (EMR); infrared radiation (IR); and light frequencies including ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

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About The Forum

The Forum is a national charity that’s educated, mentored, and uplifted 14,000+ entrepreneurs across Canada since 2002.

We help you activate, access, and grow the wisdom, financial, and community capital that you need to achieve and sustain your vision of success.

A CANADIAN CHARITY
When women entrepreneurs thrive, we all do

The Forum, a Canadian charity, has supported over 14,000+ entrepreneurs since 2002 and is committed to making sure all self-identifying women, non-binary, and trans-femme entrepreneurs can build and sustain the success they envision.

Our programming, mentorship, and deeply collaborative community work in tandem to meet entrepreneurs where they’re at and help them achieve their next milestones.

These are the guiding principles that shape everything we do at The Forum

Where Women Entrepreneurs Thrive

All of our initiatives are created with intentionality around inclusion.

We support all self-identifying women, non-binary, and trans-femme entrepreneurs, and will do whatever it takes to ensure they can activate and access the wisdom, financial, and community capital that they need to thrive.

Practice Community as a Verb

To us, being part of a community is an action, something we continuously build, nurture, engage, and champion together.

We want everyone who accesses The Forum to walk away feeling like they have someone in their corner who is cheering for them.

Commit to Authentic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

We’re dedicated to ensuring our initiatives can support each member of The Forum community. DEI is an integral part of our work, and a lens for what we do and how we do it.

Every year, we support our internal team in continued growth through: Truth & Reconciliation workshops, XChange Circles, collaborations with the NACCA, third-party consultations, and evolving research and resource sharing so that we can deliver the most relevant and effective support for our community.

Respond with Intention and Have a Measurable Impact

We design our programming with impact firmly in mind, working to ensure our initiatives give entrepreneurs the detailed support they need to action their next steps.
Entrepreneurs need 360-degree support to achieve their vision of success. We’re here to provide that.

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HOW RISE HELPS

Low interest small business loans when a traditional loan is not an option.

Business training equips you with knowledge and skills to help you navigate your growth.

Mentorship provides trusted and sound business advice.

RISE AT A GLANCE

Empowering People. Launching Ideas.

Rise is a national organization dedicated to empowering people with mental health and addiction challenges to achieve greater social and economic inclusion through entrepreneurship.

Why? Because mental health significantly impacts Canadians’ financial and social well-being. In any given year, one in five Canadians will experience a mental health or addiction challenge. Amongst the population of people with disabilities, those with a mental illness face the highest degree of stigmatization in the workplace and the greatest barriers to employment (CAMH).

Entrepreneurship is a powerful catalyst to change that.

Through training, mentorship, micro-financing and other customs supports, Rise helps individuals build the skills and access the capital they need to launch a small business that can improve quality of life and enable them to support themselves, their families and communities.

Since its founding in 2010, Rise has disbursed over $3 million in low-interest loans and, with the support of 800+ volunteers nationwide, has helped to empower more than 2,000 Canadians from coast to coast as entrepreneurs.

The impact is undeniable.

4 out of 5 Rise clients are still in business after receiving a Rise loan, showcasing their resilience as entrepreneurs. However, client success extends beyond traditional business metrics. Entrepreneurship is a vehicle for individuals to take control of their lives, boost their confidence, and redefine success.

According to the 2023 Rise Social Impact Results:

75% of clients are more confident in making business decisions, and 75% are more confident in taking on new challenges.

74% of clients feel that what they do is valued by others.

1 in 2 clients have improved their credit score.

1 in 3 clients increased their business income in 2023.

Above all, our clients feel optimistic about the future. Despite the uncertainty created by COVID-19 and ongoing social and economic instability, when comparing their situation in 2023 to pre-pandemic (2019):

70% of clients feel that they have more personal and professional growth opportunities.

1 in 2 clients perceive greater opportunities for financial growth.

Together, we are changing lives and strengthening communities by unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit of all Canadians with mental health and addiction challenges.

OUR MISSION

Rise empowers Canadians with mental health and addiction challenges to achieve greater economic and social inclusion through entrepreneurship training, small business loans and custom supports.

OUR VISION

Strengthening communities by unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit of all Canadians with mental health and addiction challenges.

OUR VALUES

Care
Empowerment
Inclusion

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The World Stroke Academy is the educational platform of the World Stroke Organization that provides high-quality stroke education to healthcare professionals.

What we do:

The World Stroke Academy (WSA) is the e-learning platform for the World Stroke Organization.

The WSA facilitates educational materials for healthcare professionals in a variety of formats (podcasts, webinars, e-learning modules, conference webcasts…) to meet the needs of the WSO membership, with the support of the WSO Committees and the Stroke Connector programme.

The role and scope of the WSA are not trivial. The WSA carries multiple responsibilities, from managing editorial decisions and leading strategic directions to disseminating and enhancing the knowledge of stroke around the world in support of the WSO vision.

The WSA provides the technical support for, and coordination of, WSO online educational and promotional webinars and social media activity.

The WSA organizes and coordinates online outreach activities for the WSO (Education Committee, Research Committee, Stroke Connector, WSO World Stroke Campaign).
Why we do it

The vision at the World Stroke Organization is a world where people live free from the effects of stroke. The World Stroke Academy (WSA) is aligned to this vision and aims to promote professional stroke education and raise awareness of WSO as a global leader in stroke.

We believe that through the education of health professionals worldwide we can make a real difference and help to alleviate the global burden of stroke.

We believe it is a priority to develop efficient and adaptable methods for delivering education in low-resource settings.

We believe it is key to facilitate stroke education by supporting stroke networks to foster educational activities at national, regional and global levels.

The current goals of the WSA are based on strengthening three pillars: i) teamwork and collaboration, ii) facilitating access to practical and high-quality material relevant to our daily stroke practice, and iii) supporting the vision of the WSO.

At the WSA, we are a team that welcome new ideas and foster diversity of opinions to achieve excellence.

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