Corporate Canada Meets SJW's
Claudia Hepburn
Chief Executive Officer, Windmill Microloans, (formerly Immigrant Access Fund Canada)
As the Co-Founder and former Executive Director of The Next 36, Claudia Hepburn has a record of leadership studying, designing, building and leading innovative education programs. Before founding The Next 36, she was the Fraser Institute’s first Director of Education Policy, who opened and led their Ontario office for seven years, and founded Children First: School Choice Trust. In 2013 Ms. Hepburn ranked as one of Canada's Top 25 Women of Influence for her achievements in the NGO sector. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal and has been named in the press as one of Canada's Ten Most Inspiring Women. She is a director of Kids and Company, Fraser Institute, and The W. Garfield Weston Foundation.
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Newcomers and immigrant serving organizations in Saskatchewan have reason to celebrate with the recent announcement from the Government of Saskatchewan that they will be renewing the Immigrant Access Fund of Saskatchewan (IAF SK).
IAK SK is a non-profit organization that provides recent immigrants with character-based repayable microloans of up to $10,000. The proposed agreement signed between the provincial government and IAF SK will provide $204,131 in operational funding to enable 58 microloans. The microloans can be used for activities related to training, upgrading, licensing, certification, registration and/or memberships required for employment in their occupation in Saskatchewan.
AIF SK was involved in the Government of Canada's Foreign Credential Recogntion Loans Pilot Project in 2011 along with CCEDNet members SEED Winnipeg and l'Association Communautaire d’emprunt de Montréal. The Pilot project was initiated in part based on the demonstrated success of Alberta's Immigrant Access Microloan Program
https://ccednet-rcdec.ca/en/new-in-ced/2014/09/12/saskatchewan-renews-support-immigrant-access-fund
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