Women Entrepreneurs Incubator

Our Virtual Incubator for Women Entrepreneurs benefits diverse women entrepreneurs who have or would like to start a business.

Benefits for participants

• Design a business idea that creates value for yourself and for others, while improving your community and the environment based on your interests.
• Access evidence-based content informed by findings from peer-reviewed research.
• Join our network for participants in the Incubator program.
• Develop your entrepreneurial ingenuity skills with a community-based and socially responsible approach.

100% online

Duration: live sessions of 1 hour weekly for 6 weeks and the recorded videos are available afterwards

Access the classes at your own pace and time

Participants who cannot attend the live sessions, have access to the recorded videos of these live sessions as well as other videos and materials, and can complete the program based on their preferred available time and pace during the program.

Time commitment

Before the program

We will assess your current entrepreneurial situation:

• 30 minutes to 1 hour for audio/video-recorded interview

During the program

You will develop your entrepreneurial ingenuity skills:

• 1 hour for a live Zoom session per week
• 30 minutes to 1 hour for self-study per week

After the program

We will remain connected and track your entrepreneurial progress:

• 30 minutes for audio/video-recorded interview upon completion
• Group meetings after the program to share progress

Curriculum

• Business model
• Mission and vision of the business
• Entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship
• Developing your entrepreneurial ingenuity
• Sources of financial capital and resources
• Taking the business online
• Social and environmental responsibility
• Community and collective business solutions

• Women Entrepreneurs Incubator Fall 2022

• Dates: October 28 - December 16, 2022

  We are forming new cohorts of participants in collaboration with our network of collaborators including nonprofit organization Grupo Mulheres do Brasil (https://www.grupomulheresdobrasil.org.br/) and Grupo Mulheres do Brasil NY (https://www.grupomulheresdobrasil.org.br/nucleos/novayork/), as well as Garra (https://www.garrabr.org/).

  Our Virtual Incubator for Women Entrepreneurs is made possible by a grant from an Insight Grant from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

  Express your interest in participating in the Incubator for Women Entrepreneurs via the same link to join our email list.
  

• Women Entrepreneurs Incubator Fall 2021

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  Danielly Ortiz (Director of Development & Communication, Garra) Ana Siqueira (Director, CSREI), and Stephanie Mulcock (Executive Director, Garra)

  We are forming new cohort of participants in collaboration with our network of collaborators including nonprofit organization Garra (https://www.garrabr.org/).

  Our Virtual Incubator for Women Entrepreneurs is made possible by a grant from the McMaster COVID-19 Research Fund and an Insight Grant from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).