Young Filipino-Canadians Resilience Project

February 8, 2021

In light of the scant opportunities during and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the PCC offered a series of online events to develop the entrepreneurial skills of young Filipino-Canadians and encourage them to start their own business.

Online Basic to Start-up Entrepreneurship Training

This is a series of three 3.5-hour workshops + one 1.5-hour pitch presentation session that aims to prepare the participants in setting up an enterprise out of a promising business idea.

The Basic to Start-up Entrepreneurship Training had the following schedule:

At the end of the training, the participants were expected to define and articulate the product or services that they would like to sell to a specific market and devise a high-level plan to make it happen.

The workshops were facilitated by Mr. Renjie Butalid, a leading Filipino-Canadian business innovation and start-up specialist based in Toronto.

The project is supported by the Employment and Social Development Canada through the Emergency Community Support Fund, managed by the Canadian Red Cross.

For more information about this training, please contact Jean Roxas at jroxas@pcc-ottawa.ca

Pre-Entrepreneurship Online Events

These are livestream lectures and interviews which aim to introduce the basics of entrepreneurship as an alternative path to gainful self-employment. It featured two experts on entrepreneurship from Algonquin College (Ottawa) and successful young Filipino-Canadian entrepreneurs from Toronto and Ottawa who shared their stories on starting and running their own businesses. The lectures and interviews were held nightly at 5:30 pm starting February 15^th to February 22^nd and livestreamed in  https://www.facebook.com/PCCOttawa/.