Webinar: Social Entrepreneurship 101 and Canada’s Investment Readiness Program

On Tuesday November 8th, Start Up Canada hosted the Social Entrepreneurship 101 and Canada’s Investment Readiness Program webinar.

This webinar brought together experts in the social entrepreneurship sector from a social finance / social innovation ecosystem (Wayne Miranda of Employment and Social Development Canada), one of the Readiness Support Partners with a current open call for applications (Michèle Bridger of Community Foundations of Canada) and a past recipient of the IRP funding 1.0 in 2019 (Zahra Qureshi of Social Venture Circuit). This webinar provides a general overview of the IRP, social funding, the funding process, common challenges in the social entrepreneurship journey and resources available to tackle them. You can find the recording here or below.

Please find Wayne’s presentation here, Michéle’s presentation here and Zahra’s presentation here.