by Ida Desmond (Viani) | Oct 27, 2021 | Canadian Social Enterprises, Events, Front Page, Pivot on Purpose, Social Enterprise, Social EnterPrize, Trico Charitable Foundation, What's Next YYC
Ten social enterprises have been selected as 2021 finalists for What’s Next YYC, a biennial award created by the Trico Charitable Foundation in 2019 to celebrate and advance excellence in social entrepreneurship in Calgary. What’s Next YYC features two $25,000 jury prizes, a $25,000 audience choice, and $25,000 the finalists share amongst themselves. To help the POP audience and others get to know these social enterprises better, this blog series will have each finalist answer ten questions – five basic questions and five from local funders.
by Ida Desmond (Viani) | Oct 26, 2021 | Canadian Social Enterprises, Events, Front Page, Pivot on Purpose, Social Enterprise, Social EnterPrize, Trico Charitable Foundation, What's Next YYC
Ten social enterprises have been selected as 2021 finalists for What’s Next YYC, a biennial award created by the Trico Charitable Foundation in 2019 to celebrate and advance excellence in social entrepreneurship in Calgary. What’s Next YYC features two $25,000 jury prizes, a $25,000 audience choice, and $25,000 the finalists share amongst themselves. To help the POP audience and others get to know these social enterprises better, this blog series will have each finalist answer ten questions – five basic questions and five from local funders.
by Ida Desmond (Viani) | Oct 25, 2021 | Canadian Social Enterprises, Events, Front Page, Pivot on Purpose, Social Enterprise, Social EnterPrize, Trico Charitable Foundation, What's Next YYC
Three semi-finalists for the Social EnterPrize award, AccessNow (ON), Alinker Inventions Inc. (BC) and Living Works Education Inc. (AB), will share their unique ventures at the Pivot on Purpose Summit where audience members will have a chance to vote on which semi-finalist will receive the $25,000 POPular choice award. To help the POP audience and others get to know these social enterprises better, this blog series will have each semi-finalist answer ten questions – five basic questions and five from local funders.
by Ida Desmond (Viani) | Oct 20, 2021 | Canadian Social Enterprises, Events, Front Page, Pivot on Purpose, Social Enterprise, Trico Charitable Foundation, What's Next YYC
Ten social enterprises have been selected as 2021 finalists for What’s Next YYC, a biennial award created by the Trico Charitable Foundation in 2019 to celebrate and advance excellence in social entrepreneurship in Calgary.
by Ida Desmond (Viani) | Oct 19, 2021 | Canadian Social Enterprises, Events, Front Page, Pivot on Purpose, Social Enterprise, Social EnterPrize, Trico Charitable Foundation, What's Next YYC
Three semi-finalists for the Social EnterPrize award, AccessNow (ON), Alinker Inventions Inc. (BC) and Living Works Education Inc. (AB), will share their unique ventures at the Pivot on Purpose Summit where audience members will have a chance to vote on which semi-finalist will receive the $25,000 POPular choice award. To help the POP audience and others get to know these social enterprises better, this blog series will have each semi-finalist answer ten questions – five basic questions and five from local funders.
by Ida Desmond (Viani) | Jun 8, 2021 | Canadian Social Enterprises, Front Page, Post-Secondary, Social Enterprise, Social EnterPrize, Trico Charitable Foundation, What's Next YYC
Founder and CEO of aGRO Systems Inc. (aGRO), Victoria Ross, found her passion through wanting to solve a problem that struck close to home. Victoria’s father has been a beef cattle rancher for almost 50 years. While completing her Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Calgary, Victoria found that around half of all Canadian farmers need a second job to make ends meet, similar to her family’s own experience. This spurred the creation of her social enterprise, which provides service and grain bins to breweries, distilleries, and cideries to transform their waste into affordable livestock feed that is sold to local farmers. aGRO is helping make family farmers more profitable, improving the global food system, and reducing carbon emissions from livestock.
