Spotlight on Canada’s Student Social Entrepreneurs: Union Co-operative
Executive Director Sean Campbell of Union-Cooperative talks about their biggest learnings, partnerships, and next steps.
Spotlight on Canada’s Student Social Entrepreneurs: PragmaClin
Co-Founder Bronwyn Bridges of PragmaClin talks about their mission, selling into healthcare, perseverance, and next steps.
Trico Foundation & Social Entrepreneurship: 2022 in Review
Happy New Year! The start of 2023 gives us the opportunity to reflect and learn from 2022. Although 2022 came with its challenges, the past twelve months were busy, historic, and made great progress in advancing both social entrepreneurship and Calgary’s role as a hub for social entrepreneurship.
Spotlight on Canada’s Student Social Entrepreneurs: Friendly Composting
Co-Founders Katie Forsyth and Claire McLoughlin of Friendly Composting discuss cash flow, learning how to pace themselves, impact, and next steps.
Six Student Led Social Enterprises to Watch
This year’s NU national awards competition featured six finalists for the awards. The NU Community Board offered two primary prizes: The Board Award ($25,000) and the Audience Vote Award ($25,000). In a surprise turn of events, we also decided to award each finalist who did not receive a primary prize an award of $5,000.
$50,000 to Outstanding Student Social Entrepreneurs
The NU Community Board has hit the ground running for our second year running the NU National Awards for Outstanding Student Social Entrepreneurship. We are pleased to share that we are now accepting applications for these two awards. Each award is for $25,000. One award is selected by the NU Community Board jury, and the other award is selected by the audience at the awards presentation.