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44th Edition | December 2024
🗓️ WITHOUT FURTHER ADO! 🗓️
We present to you the PORCH 2025 EVENTS CALENDAR!
What an incredible year of community 2024 was! We have now hosted nearly 100 virtual sessions and 30 in-person events.
Sessions with incredible speakers, community sessions, potlucks, coaching & coffee, Blue Jays games, exclusive dinners, some awesome collab events, and much more.
And with that, we are excited to bring you your 2025 Calendar!!
Mental Wellness for Immigrant Entrepreneurs w/ Nina Purewal
Accounting & Bookkeeping
Make It Better (Cold Email Workshop) w/ Jen Allen-Knuth
Real Estate & Housing
Current State: The Funding Landscape w/ Paul Irving
BIPSY w/ Kevin "KD" Dorsey
Crafting Your Elevator Story w/ Ravi Rajani
Getting Ready for Growth: Funding vs Bootstrapping w/ Michael Ho
The Cold Hard Truth w/ Scott Leese
The Talent Marketplace
Recurring Community Sessions 👥
(no guest speaker)
Roast My _____ (share your pitches, websites, decks, etc. and get feedback from everyone!)
ACA: Ask the Community Anything (bring your challenges and questions to this interactive session where we come together to help one another)
Member-Led Masterminds (members can host mastermind sessions on various topics)
+ more community sessions and speaker sessions to be announced
In-Person Events 📍
3 x PORCH Potlucks
4 x Coaching & Coffee
8 x Exclusive Dinners
1 x PORCH Picnic
1 x PORCH Blue Jays Game
Websummit in Vancouver
and more...
We have been asking for feedback and ideas on past events and based on what we’ve heard, we will be putting more emphasis on the value of a micro-learning, high quality (vs just quantity), engaged community.
As such, all sessions and many of the in-person events will be small group, highly engaged, and high touch-point!
Don’t walk. RUN to the PORCH Hub and register for all of these virtual sessions!!!
*in-person events will be shared on our Luma page as each one approaches*
We officially launched the PORCH Foundation and our first grant for immigrant entrepreneurs with Matrix Venture Studio.
PORCH and Matrix Venture Studio are excited to offer two micro-grants of $1,500 each to support immigrant entrepreneurs in their business ventures. Applications Open!
We have hosted 45 virtual sessions and 18 in-person events throughout 2024.
Sessions with incredible speakers, community sessions, potlucks, coaching & coffee, Blue Jays games, exclusive dinners, some awesome collab events, and much more.
We wanted to thank the incredible guests that shared their experience with the community, along with the great organizations who helped make our in-person events possible!
Chloe has taken her vast experience across the film industry from casting to production and founded Aladi Media – a dynamic production company dedicated to amplifying culturally rich, diverse stories through film, documentary, and commercial projects. With a mission to inspire and connect, it empowers creators and audiences alike by bringing authentic, impactful narratives to the forefront.
Aladi Media also supports creators with media training and professional equipment rentals, making it a valuable resource for visionary storytelling.
It has been an absolute pleasure having Chloe part of the PORCH community and we can't wait to see her success in this company! Universal look out! 🎥 👀
P.S. Chloe's short film AGOGO has been officially accepted into the 2024 Black Film & Screenplay Festival! 🙌
It's hard out there, and it's exponentially harder for an immigrant entrepreneur.
PORCH is an exclusive community for international entrepreneurs in or coming to Canada or the U.S. built to level the playing field and give you a greater chance at success.
