◄ (Facing page) Margaret Magner, Ph.D, M.A., M.P.W.: Executive Director ◄ Shelley Jessop: Rural Women’s Business Centre Manager ▼ (Left) Sparrow McGowan: Events and Communications Officer ▼ (Below) Margaret Magnor and Shelley Jessop
“We want to continue to offer new resources to women in the Charlottetown area,” Magner says, referring to the PEIBWA Study, a reasonably priced co-working space in the Peake-Carvell Building in Charlottetown. Woman entrepreneurs can rent space by the day or week, as a work- or meeting space. Renters have access to office space, PEIBWA staff, and the business library. The PEIBWA Spring Symposium and many training and networking events continue to run in Charlottetown. PEIBWA and women-in-business centres in the other Atlantic provinces have established the Atlantic Canadian Women in Business Growth Partnership, funded by Canada’s Women Entrepreneurship Strategy (WES). The partners will share best practices, with a particular focus on helping women with new businesses scale
up and expand their businesses, and better serving underrepresented groups, such as rural women; newcomers; women with disabilities; Indigenous women; and women in information technology (IT) and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). In addition to these initiatives, PEIBWA provides members with one-on-one business advising, free workshops, discounts on events such as the annual Spring Symposium, exclusive member events, opportunities to showcase their businesses by hosting business mixers, and microgrants for successful applicants. “We listen to the membership to understand their needs, and work to meet those needs,” Magner says.
launching to succession planning. “We’re trying to hit all the bases,” says Magner. Men are welcome to join. Learn more by visiting www.peibwa.org, subscribing to the weekly newsletter, or attending workshops or free business mixers.
Charlottetown Office 25 Queen Street, Suite 25
Charlottetown 902.892.6040
Rural Women’s Business Centre Wm. Callbeck Centre 106 Linkletter Avenue Central Bedeque
www.peibwa.org
Membership is open to businesswomen anywhere along the career arc, from
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