Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Provides support services to black-owned businesses and emerging entrepreneurs in Saskatchewan and in other prairie provinces. Identifies and supports black entrepreneurs by providing them mentorship and access to resources to enable them to develop their innovative ideas and assist them in turning those ideas into business opportunities through local and international streams.

• International Stream – offers information and referrals to prospective immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean countries who are interested in moving to the prairies to explore entrepreneurial opportunities.  Offers welcome packages for those who visit and provides referrals to business consulting firms and IRCC regulated immigration consultants for information and assistance.
• Local Stream 
  • Identifies, organizes and trains women for business activities
  • Engages and works with youth entrepreneurs to help them realize their economic potentials
  • Assists those with artistic skills reach for higher aspirations
  • Helps those with sporting talents reach the next level
  • Identifies the IT (Information Technology) minds in the black community and helps them find the necessary resources to produce the next Canadian technology apps
  • Helps the foreign trained professionals in the community get their Canadian credentials, and assists them to open their occupation-based businesses – such as accounting and engineering firms.