Women’s Enterprise Organizations of Canada is proud to deliver the WEOC National Loan Program, which will support women and non-binary entrepreneurs as they start, scale, grow and maintain their businesses.
It takes a different approach to setting you up for continued growth and success by providing robust wrap-around services to guide you through the process.
WEOC’s Loan Fund Partners are skilled professionals who work with diverse women entrepreneurs. They are able to provide a variety of resources, including seminars, webinars, mentorship programs, networking opportunities, one-on-one advising, and loan aftercare. Their goal is to answer your questions, provide you with relevant resources, and guide you in the development of a business plan that documents the feasibility and viability of your business idea. They have your best interest in mind so will often ask the tough questions to make sure that you are considering both opportunities and challenges that could affect the success of your business.
PARO Centre for Women’s Enterprise (PARO) provides a myriad of business supports including access to funding for women entrepreneurs living in Ontario.
Founded in 1995, PARO, best known for its renowned Peer Lending Network for Women (https://paro.ca/paro-circles/), is credited to be the largest in North America, supporting more than 190 Lending Circles across Ontario. Recently, PARO completed a pandemic recovery survey in follow up to two previous surveys used to track, evaluate, and analyze the effects that the Covid-19 pandemic had on women entrepreneurs and their businesses.
As we enter the third year of the global pandemic, the results of this survey, anecdotal conversations, and formal and informal interviews with PARO clients indicate that the global challenges related to Covid-19 acutely and disproportionately affected women. In the business world, this statement rang true for women entrepreneurs as they continue to navigate staffing challenges, access and accessibility restrictions, and government support restrictions among many other ongoing challenges.
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