Youth Entrepreneurship: Ottawa’s Portfolio in Talent Development

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Ottawa Community Challenge Promo Videos

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What’s the OCC?

What is the OCC?  Good question – and it’s what everyone should be asking. The Ottawa Community Challenge is a social innovation challenge competition.  It brings together:  Talented Students + Ottawa based Social Enterprises + Mentors + 48 hours = One INTENSE Experience

Ottawa Community Challenge – Intro Video

What is the OCC you ask?  The Ottawa Community Challenge is a social innovation challenge competition.  It brings together energetic motivated post-secondary students, Ottawa based social enterprises, and corporations with a CSR mandate with one purpose:  to create a local community that can deliver real solutions to social enterprises.  It’s intense and its innovative – and it’s [...]

Initiatives from Scratch

It´s very rare that you have the opportunity to be part of an initiative from the ground up. It´s exciting, as exciting as it sounds, but also hard. You want to build something bigger and better…but the question is how? You become very aware of the pressures of creativity, pressures of creating something of real [...]