Acupuncturiste Laurel Irons received the Graduation Achievement Award at the 3rd Annual Rising Stars event on October 20, 2009 at the Heritage Hall in Vancouver, BC. Sponsor and award was presented by Jan Kudyba of Accenture.
EMBERS (Eastside Movement for Business & Economic Renewal Society) is a non-profit agency that works to combat poverty and assists in the revitalization of Vancouver by facilitating community-based business development. We do this by helping individuals and groups start small businesses and social enterprises. We offer self-employment training, one-on-one business coaching, and work with residents, community groups and other stakeholders to develop plans, strategies and specific ventures to improve the lives of residents and build a healthy community.
HOPE & SELF-SUFFICIENCY The most important thing that we do is offer hope and self-sufficiency to low income people. Using principles of community based economic development ("CED") that have been used throughout the world, we have seen people without a business background go on to become self-sufficient owners of their own micro-enterprise.
WHO WE ARE:
EMBERS is a non-profit Community Economic Development Corporation
EMBERS is a registered charity and not-for-profit society.
OUR GOALS ARE:
To act as a catalyst for community economic activity
To facilitate community economic planning based upon a collaborative and cooperative model
To assist low-income, under-served entrepreneurs in starting, stabilizing and growing successful small businesses
To participate in research that leads to business and social enterprise development