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Welcome to our summer newsletter for 2022!  We are so excited to share our Footnotes Newsletter with you!

The Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce's "Heffner Women's Leadership event - 60 in 60: Women in Business" was such a great event that I thought it may be a great resource for our team and beyond!  Scroll down for the replay of this marvellous 1 hour presentation celebrating our local leaders. I attended this event to learn about local women entrepreneurs and the lessons learned in their career trajectories. Everyone has leadership qualities, learning to trust yourself and embrace the challenges you face is what I was hoping to learn. My key take aways....  Learn, Lean In, get comfortable with being...

YW Kitchener-Waterloo partners with McMaster University Continuing Education to help women launch into tech roles through a fully funded certificate program KITCHENER, ON, September 23, 2021 – The YWCA Kitchener-Waterloo’s (YWKW) innovative employment training program, In Her Shoes, has partnered with McMaster University Continuing Education to offer its YWCA Reskilling Uplift in Specialized Technology initiative. Uplift is a virtual program whereby learners receive a Certificate of Professional Learning in Data Analytics from McMaster University Continuing Education. The first cohort of classes is set to begin on Tuesday, September 21, 2021 and will run on a part-time basis until July 2022. The...

We are very happy to announce that the Entrepreneurship & Employment Newcomer Women's Program has been extended for another year!  The next round starts on September 13th, 2021 and it is all online! Our entrepreneurship & employment programs are available in two streams - one for those still wondering about the how-to’s, possibilities, and what is involved - which we call the beginner stream.  The other stream is the advanced stream - for those that have a product, an idea and need an extra boost of support to get the side hustle off the ground!  There are more details below...