Make Your Pitch Deadline: March 28, 2014!

Make Your Pitch, the Government of Ontario and Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE), are pleased to be bringing back the Young Entrepreneurs, Make Your Pitch high school competition.

The competition challenges students in grades 9 to 12 to pitch their business ideas in a two-minute video to be voted on by the public and expert judges. Finalists will receive a trip to Toronto (including transportation and hotel for the finalists and chaperones) to present their ideas in front of a judging panel at OCE’s Discovery Conference and Trade Show on May 12-13. Six winners will then be selected and will be presented with a reserved entry into Summer Company to develop their business idea (worth up to $3,000).

This year’s competition is run by OCE on behalf of the Government of Ontario and presents an exciting opportunity for high school students to learn about the benefits of a career in entrepreneurship and of starting their own business. Student participants will also receive expert guidance on pitching a business proposal.

 www.makeyourpitch.ca

Summer Company DEADLINE: May 23, 2014

BAC member Camille Lauren-Gordon, pictured below, was one of Summer Company 2013's participants with her business Art of Ciel.

The Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Employment, through its continuing Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy, has announced the fourteenth year for Summer Company, a student entrepreneurship experience that will provide hands-on business training, mentoring – and awards of up to $3000 – to help enterprising young people start and run their own summer businesses.  It’s a great opportunity for students ages 15-29 to develop entrepreneurial skills and build the experience that comes with running a small business.

Over the last thirteen years, SBEC and its team of volunteer mentors have worked with more than 100 winners of the Summer Company program.  These students experienced the challenges and thrills of small business ownership.  This is year, SBEC is again looking forward to offering awards to creative and hard-working young people.  The program is open to secondary school, college and university students who are returning to school in the fall of 2014.

Students are encouraged to operate simple sole proprietorships, which focus on a service offering or a single product.  The application process includes writing a business plan – a challenge even for the seasoned businessperson. 

For Eligibility, Guidelines and an Application, visit www.ontario.ca/summercompany

FREE Marketing and Sponsorship Workshop!

 The BAC is proud to announce Mini HACE™ Series Event

"Marketing and Sponsorship"
Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 7 PM at the Brampton Golf Club

Overview: Explore an opportunity to look at sponsorship as a marketing and sales function.  Attendees can expect to get an overview of 3 key elements:

1.  Identifying a prospect and creating a fundraising pipeline.
2. Value proposition of the organization. 
3. Effective Implementation of process.

Sudarshan “Suds” Jagannathan is an active and thinking citizen of India and Canada. Professionally, Suds brings 16 years in Sales/Consulting and being a catalyst for Change across the travel, telecom and financial sectors (last role - Director, Business Development, Canada - Travelport). Here, Suds has been successful in creating new or breathing life into existing 'organisms', and yield powerful results. Suds is also part of Toronto's little known secret, http://www.masadvise.ca, a volunteer consulting group, where Suds focuses on Marketing, Sales, Fundraising and Branding initiatives to non-profit agencies - again, with real results. Additionally, Suds mentors new immigrants and has served on a few non-profit boards. Suds believes in dreaming big and executing small victories that realize that dream. Latest rumor is that Suds is now transitioning over to the Social Development sector, continuing to daydream and EXECUTE. Suds' pipeline of ideas include Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Enterprises. With so much time left, Suds plays cricket for the Toronto's oldest cricket club and is learning how to sing. Suds is driven by the desire to illuminate within, share the light with the world and believes in the Gandhian doctrine - "It starts with one".

REGISTER NOW!

905-874-2919  info@artsbrampton.ca

HACE™ Business of the Arts Workshop Weekend (free)

Nov. 10, 11, 12, & 13 – BAC is honoured this year to have as one of our featured speakers musician Cindy Church, a creative force in a number of musical groups including Quartette and Lunch at Allen’s. Now living in Toronto, she has not only acquired a national reputation as one of the best singers in the country, but an international one as well. Learn about her experiences in “Cindy Church, a musical journey”. Also meet and listen to Ted Outerbridge’s struggles as a performing musician in “29 Years of Survival – Magically”. The Brampton Arts Council’s HACE™ Business of the Arts Workshops will be held on marketing, business start-up, networking and more at the Brampton Golf Club (7700 Kennedy Rd. S., Brampton). For more details and/or to register Call 905-874-2919, email info@artsbrampton.ca or click on the following links to see a complete http://www.artsbrampton.ca/workshops.asp