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The Business Sisters blog posts will keep you up to date on what’s happening! Find out the back-story to our events and conferences and more – we will be featuring reflections and more from local rural women entrepreneurs.
Our Plans to Help Rural Women Business Owners
When we announced the $100,000 grant from Desjardins, we promised to inform you about the plans to use this money to benefit our region’s women business owners. Based on consultations we’ve had thus far, here are the three main uses of the funding: 1. One on one...
$100,000 funding from Desjardins Ontario
Big news! We are so happy to announce that Business Sisters has received $100,000 from Desjardins Ontario Credit Union’s Community Development Fund to launch a new Centre for Rural Women Entrepreneurs which will deliver entrepreneurial training, mentorship and events,...
Business Sisters Networking – Tuesday, August 23, 2022
We're so pleased to be continuing our monthly series of networking events for rural women business owners. This event is at the La Belle Sorelle from 5 to 7 pm on Tuesday, August 23! We are excited to spend the evening with them! Let's eat! There will be good drinks,...
Meet our new Marketing Coordinator
Meet Grace, our summer Marketing Coordinator. From Maxville, ON, Grace impressed us with her passion about “living through a new age of feminism” and we look forward to having her with us for the summer. We asked Grace a few questions to get to know her better. Here’s...
Business Sisters Networking – Tuesday, July 26, 2022
We're so pleased to be continuing our monthly series of networking events for rural women business owners. This event is BACK at the Tuque de Broue Brewery from 5 to 7 pm on Tuesday, July 26! Our last in-person event before the pandemic was there and we are so excited...
Our New Summer “Pop-Up” Space!
As of yesterday, it is official! Business Sisters has a new “pop-up” space for the summer. We were so pleased to see those who came and visited for our Open House. We encourage any who weren’t able to make it to stop by anytime! Neighbouring business owners and...
Business Sisters is Hiring a Summer Student
We are looking for a student to fill the position of Marketing Coordinator; 35 hours per week, for 8 weeks starting on or about June 20 at a pay of $18 per hour! This is mostly an on-site position with expectation that the...
Business Sisters Networking – Tuesday, May 31, 2022
This networking event is open to anyone who owns or operates a business or wishes to work with women entrepreneurs, with a special invitation to entrepreneurs from rural areas and small towns in Eastern Ontario. Celebrating the warmer weather with a trip to the...
Time for gratitude & simplicity
Note: the content of this post was first released in our bi-weekly e-Newsletter. If you want access to this content first, sign up here. In the last e-news message, I described how my spinning plates (aka all the priorities...