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Chief Peggy White, Three Rivers Mi'kmaq Band, addresses participants at the Community Impact-a-thon Challenge.
The first Community Impact-a-thon Challenge was hosted last summer at Grenfell Campus by Navigate (Grenfell Campus and CNA-Corner Brook) and Memorial's Centre for Social Enterprise.
The event consisted of community workshops and consultations over a three-day period.
"The Centre for Social Enterprise is thrilled to have worked with Navigate and Grenfell Campus on this wonderful event," said Dr. Gillian Morrissey, manager of Memorial's Centre for Social Enterprise. "We look forward to collaborating on more social enterprise and social innovation-focused activities for the western and Great Northern Peninsula regions of the island in the future. Thank you to all who participated, our guests, funders, sponsors and volunteers for helping us make the Community Impact-a-thon a huge success!"
The first-place prize of $1000 went to Jessie Donaldson, whose social enterprise "Art with Jessie" is described as "paying art forward to make art accessible and inclusive for children and persons facing socioeconomic challenges."
Roshayne Mendis took the $750 second-place prize for Tea Cup NL, "sharing tea culture for connection, wellness and a greener environment, one cup at a time."
And Marcia Huyer and Robert Hengeveld took third place and $500 for "Cloud Factory," an artist run organization fostering, facilitating and promoting art, culture and creative exploration in Western NL.
Other teams who competed include:
"We also would like to thank our speakers, discussion hosts, mentors and judges who graciously volunteered their time to inspire and guide our participants to be the change they want to see in our communities," said Ms. Rowe, adding that events like this would not be possible without the hard work and dedication of the many hands behind the scenes who made it all possible.
Speakers and special guests included:
Learn more about social enterprise from the Centre for Social Enterprise and Navigate.
