Past Projects
Start your journey with programs, mentorship, and resources designed to support your settlement.
Exploring Digital Solutions with Community for Settlement Outcomes
Empowering immigrant women through inclusive, community-based learning
The Open Doors Adult Education Project is a women focused community elevation program. This project aims to support the empowerment of marginalized immigrant women by helping them move forward in fulfilling their social and economic goals. Open Doors is focused on collaborating with adult learners through an intersectional lens, creating relevant and inclusive sessions that resonate with the identified participants’ goals. These women-led sessions reflect women’s lived experiences, and are designed to support adult learning. The project is funded by the Catherine Donnelly Foundation.
The Jigsaw Puzzle Project
A women-led online resource supporting entrepreneurship, social enterprise, and co-operatives across Canada.
New World, New Way is a multi-year initiative developed to support immigrant women through skills training, awareness building, and improved access to existing services and community opportunities.
The Evidence for Community Employment Services Project
Data-driven insights to strengthen community employment services
The Open Doors Adult Education Project is a women focused community elevation program. This project aims to support the empowerment of marginalized immigrant women by helping them move forward in fulfilling their social and economic goals. Open Doors is focused on collaborating with adult learners through an intersectional lens, creating relevant and inclusive sessions that resonate with the identified participants’ goals. These women-led sessions reflect women’s lived experiences, and are designed to support adult learning. The project is funded by the Catherine Donnelly Foundation.
Her Own Boss!
Self Employment to Bridge Settlement and Economic Security
Her Own Boss! is a national action research project with the goal of increasing service providers’ understanding of the needs of newcomer women exploring self-employment. This exciting project, delivered in St. John’s, NL, Ottawa, ON and Vancouver, BC metro regions, provides free opportunities for Visible minority newcomer women to explore community resources. Collective Interchange is the delivery partner for the province of NL on this Women’s Economic Council (WEC) project. We want to recognize the Multicultural Women’s Organization of Newfoundland and Labrador who is the local anchor organization. Over a two year period, stakeholders will contribute to research while working together to pilot new resources that can better serve visible minority newcomer women.
Youth-Based Programs:
Supporting youth through work experience, mentorship, and career growth
Collective Interchange likes to keep its finger on the pulse! We give youth opportunities to gain work experience giving them exclusive insight into the non-profit sector and co-operative business model. We encourage our youth during our time with us to advance their professional profile by encouraging resume building, providing professional mentoring, networking opportunities, and other career development activities. We continuously try to keep the ball rolling to inspire youth to consider future plans in education and work.
