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The Sector Inc
- Mar 30
- 2 min
Innovate Calgary Webinar with The Sector Inc - Measuring What Matters
In this session, socially purposed entrepreneurs will gain insight into strategies and approaches to measure their impact. About this Event How can you tell If your brilliant idea to change the world is working? Impact measurement, although sometimes difficult, is vital for us to communicate to our stakeholders (customers, beneficiaries, key partners, donors, and/or investors) and confirm if the world-changing idea is doing just that. Socially purposed organizations and entre
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The Sector Inc
- Mar 21
- 2 min
The Sector Inc is proud and humbled to sponsor Blue Door Shelter's, The Coldest Night of the Year
“The Coldest Night of the Year is a moment when tens of thousands of Canadians step outside the warmth and comfort of home and shine a light of welcome and inclusion.” It's cold out there during the winter in Canada. The Coldest Night of the Year was a covid-safe, family-friendly walk to raise money for charities serving people experiencing homelessness, hurt, and hunger. Normally an in-person experience, the walk with us on February 20, 2021 was a virtual one and we are so t
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The Sector Inc
- Mar 11
- 1 min
Innovate Calgary Webinar - Financing Tools for Social Enterprise with The Sector Inc
About this Event There are many ways to fund your social enterprise, from equity to loans. Different tools can be used to accomplish various milestones based on your corporate structure and goals. Join us with speakers from The Sector Inc. and Social Enterprise Fund to learn more about the tools available to fund your social enterprise and knowing when to use them. Presenters: Bradford Turner, Founder and Managing Director, The Sector Inc (left) Jane Bisbee, Executive Directo
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The Sector Inc
- Feb 10
- 1 min
Ontario Skills Development Fund - Applications Due Feb 28
The Skills Development Fund will support projects that will help relieve pandemic-induced barriers to hiring, training and retaining workers. The ministry is seeking projects that will enable market-driven solutions and unlock the economic potential of skilled trades and broader workforce development initiatives to facilitate the province’s economic recovery. Applications are now open for the Ontario government's new two-year $115 million Skills Development Fund. The fund, wh
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The Sector Inc
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Ontario: Get COVID-19 relief funding for your business
Ontario is helping businesses recover costs for personal protective equipment and providing extra support for businesses required to close or significantly restrict services as a result of provincial public health measures. Overview of available funding Your business can apply online for funding from one or more of the following initiatives: Ontario Small Business Support Grant - The new Ontario Small Business Support Grant, which will help small businesses that are required
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The Sector Inc
- Jan 12
- 5 min
FedDev Southern Ontario - Regional Innovation Ecosystem Funding
Scope & Objectives The Regional Innovation Ecosystem stream aims to create, grow and develop strong and inclusive regional ecosystems that support business growth and innovation, as well as the entrepreneurial environment necessary to foster more innovative regional economies and increase the competitiveness of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We can help with your strategy & submission: info@thesectorinc.ca Through this Stream, FedDev Ontario seeks to: Grow and su
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The Sector Inc
- Jan 8
- 2 min
Local Food Infrastructure Fund - Funding for NPOs to support local food systems
Your not-for-profit organization could get funding to improve access to safe, healthy and culturally-diverse food and to promote environmentally sustainable food systems while supporting local communities. Money Minimum: $5,000 Maximum: $250,000 Status Accepting project proposals Closing on December 31, 2023 We can help with your strategy & submission: info@thesectorinc.ca What this program offers The Local Food Infrastructure Fund (LFIF) is a five-year, $50 million initiativ
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The Sector Inc
- Jan 7
- 1 min
Ontario Labour Market Partnerships - Ministry of Colleges and Universities
The Labour Market Partnerships program supports partnerships among employers, employer/employee associations, and community organizations. The program is intended to help partners to: Promote the creation of broad industry/community partnerships necessary to address labour market issues Assist local communities with the development of innovative strategies to prepare for future skills requirements and prevent skills shortages within new and emerging industries and organizatio
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The Sector Inc
- Jan 6
- 2 min
Rural Economic Development program - Province of Ontario - Submissions Due Feb 21.
Funding to help create jobs and boost growth in your rural community. How it works Ontario’s Rural Economic Development (RED) program provides cost-share funding to support activities that create strong rural communities in Ontario, and opens doors to rural economic development through: funding assistance to address barriers to economic development, better position rural communities to attract and retain jobs and investment, and enhance economic growth funding to build commun
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The Sector Inc
- Jan 4
- 2 min
Government of Alberta Funding - Enhanced Capacity Advancement Program
This program provides funding for up to 3 years to Alberta-based capacity building non-profit organizations. We can help with your strategy & submission: info@thesectorinc.ca Overview The Enhanced Capacity Advancement Program (ECAP) helps to advance and strengthen the non-profit/voluntary sector, by providing multi-year operational funding for up to 3 years to Alberta-based non-profit organizations that have a primary mandate and proven ability to: build the capacity of other
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The Sector Inc
- Jan 4
- 1 min
Funding for Alberta Non-profit Organizations: Community Initiatives Program
The Community Initiatives Program (CIP) provides funding to support initiatives that enhance and enrich communities throughout Alberta. Overview The Community Initiatives Program (CIP) provides funding for organizations that create opportunities for Albertans to engage with and help develop their communities. CIP outcomes are to: strengthen leadership and organizational capacity of community organizations support community-driven goals that have a public benefit Funding strea
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The Sector Inc
- Dec 28, 2020
- 3 min
Federal Anti-poverty Program Funding for Community Action Agencies in New York State
WHAT IS THE COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT? The Community Services Block Grant [CSBG] is a federal anti-poverty program administered by the NYS Department of State DCS since 1982. Its purpose in NYS is to provide assistance to a network of Community Action Agencies [CAAs] or Community Action Programs [CAPs] and other neighborhood organizations in the reduction of poverty, revitalization of low-income communities, and to provide economic opportunities for low-income families.
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The Sector Inc
- Dec 24, 2020
- 2 min
Money to promote vitality in the Canadian arts sector - Supporting Artistic Practice — National Arts
The National Arts Service Organizations component of Supporting Artistic Practice funds Canadian arts service organizations with mandates to promote and support the arts on a national level. Grants assist service organizations committed to developing and sustaining the vitality of the Canadian professional arts sector through representation, promotion and exchange. Activities - what you can apply for You can apply for a contribution towards member services and other activitie
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The Sector Inc
- Dec 24, 2020
- 2 min
Funding for Regional Innovation Ecosystems — for not-for-profit organizations (Northern Ontario)
Funding under this program stream helps create, grow and develop strong and inclusive regional networks that support business growth and innovation. This will foster the entrepreneurial environment necessary for more innovative regional economies and increase the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). In part, this stream will seek to further enhance business support networks for under-represented groups—including women, Indigenous peoples and young entr
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The Sector Inc
- Dec 23, 2020
- 2 min
Funding for your Northern Ontario non-profit
FedNor Regional Relief and Recovery Fund (RRRF) – Regional economy stream (Not-for-profit) - we can support your strategy & submission. If your organization isn’t eligible for current COVID-19 government support programs, you could get non-repayable financial support from your local Regional Development Agency. Money Maximum: $500,000 Non-repayable Funding limits Maximum duration: 12 months This program will cover a maximum of 100% of eligible costs You Are a non-profit in No
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The Sector Inc
- Nov 1, 2020
- 3 min
A New Approach to Funding Social Enterprises
The financial crisis of 2008 deeply damaged the credibility of financial innovation in the general public’s mind. As the collapse of markets dried up credit across the system, the notion that securities such as collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps are enablers of growth suddenly seemed implausible, if not deluded. Indeed, those instruments are often described today as weapons of mass destruction. It’s easy to forget that the same instruments have had a pos
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The Sector Inc
- Sep 23, 2020
- 5 min
How to carry out a feasibility study for a Social Enterprise
Before starting a social enterprise a feasibility study is a test to see if your business idea will work. It is not a guarantee of success but you can reduce the risks you take through research and planning before you commit yourself. Feasibility studies are just as important for social enterprises as any other form of business. In fact, a good feasibility study will be very useful when looking for funding for an idea. What is a Feasibility Study? A feasibility study will loo
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The Sector Inc
- Sep 22, 2020
- 4 min
The MBA spawns a start-up spanning three continents
09 March 2017 MBA students set up consultancy to streamline public services Aiming to save taxpayers thousands of pounds The Sector involves students from five different countries Company set-up over a pub meeting on Warwick Week When Canadian Bradford Turner started moving the pepper and salt around the table at the Dirty Duck he had little idea that it would lead to a start-up operation whose founders span three continents. Explaining to Elena Dimova the intricacies of the
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The Sector Inc
- Jul 13, 2020
- 3 min
Social Enterprise Business Planning
A social enterprise is an activity of a nonprofit that employs entrepreneurial, market-driven strategies for earned income in support of its mission. This outline for a social enterprise business plan is a guide for research, planning, and writing a business plan for nonprofit social enterprises. A social enterprise is an activity of a nonprofit that employs entrepreneurial, market-driven strategies for earned income in support of their mission. Business plans are a common to
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