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Incubators and Think Tanks

YES Employment + Entrepreneurship

YES is a non-profit, community-driven English-language service provider that has been helping Québecers find employment and develop as entrepreneurs since 1995. Our mission is to help English-speaking Québecers reach their potential. At YES, we give you the skills and confidence to develop a personal career or business strategy through workshops, personalized coaching, and so much

Unité de travail pour l’implantation de logement étudiant (UTILE)

Our mission is to develop and operate affordable student housing in addition to studying the matter and promoting the issues relating thereto.

Startup Montréal

We are Startup Montréal, your key player in the Montréal entrepreneurial ecosystem. We were formed from the merger of two major organizations: the Montréal inc. foundation and the non-profit organization Bonjour Startup Montréal. Firstly, Montréal inc., a foundation that has helped young businesses since 1996 with grants and a network of several hundred volunteer coaches.

SHIFT Center for Social Transformation

The SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation supports existing and emerging social transformation initiatives that unite the efforts of Concordians and their partners with the goal of creating a more just, inclusive, and broadly prosperous Montreal.

SEIZE (Solidarity Economy Incubation)

SEIZE stands for Solidarity Economy Incubation (feel free to add the words for Zero Emissions at the end if you’re an acronym purist). We are a member-based democratic organization that serves a thriving community of solidarity economy organizers and entrepreneurs in Montreal.Our mission is to advance the transition from capitalism to a more sustaina ble,

Quebec English-Speaking Communities Research Network (QUESCREN)

Established in 2008, the Quebec English-Speaking Communities Research Network (QUESCREN) is a collaborative network of researchers, stakeholders, and educational and other institutions that improves understanding of Quebec’s English-speaking communities and promotes their vitality. Mission: QUESCREN provides opportunities to promote the understanding and vitality of Quebec’s English-language minority communities through research, training, knowledge mobilization, networking and

Mitacs

Mitacs powers research and development creation by connecting private sector with the best post-secondary institutions to solve organizational challenges—in Canada and internationally. For 20 years, Mitacs has funded cutting-edge research, created job opportunities for graduate students, and helped companies reach their goals, achieving results that have bolstered the Canadian economy and impact.

IRECUS

We put our research and education skills to work for a more just, equitable and sustainable world. To do this, we adopt a position of scientific and critical allies of the cooperative and mutualist movement. IRECUS (Research and Education Institute for Cooperatives and Mutuals of the University of Sherbrooke) is an essential crossroads of expertise

Innoweave

In cooperation with our network of coaches, we help community organizations clarify their outcomes and obtain the support they need to become capable of achieving those outcomes. We do this through a series of coaching streams built around social innovation approaches. In each case, organizations can access information, explore their readiness, and begin implementing approaches

Impact 8 (Esplanade program)

Our coaching programs are designed for different stages of the impact8 journey, developed in partnership with Rhizome. They are structured around an integrated vision of entrepreneurial coaching for change agents. Impact8 programs have been custom-designed to support you throughout the three key stages of your organization’s development.

Ideos HEC Montréal

The mission of IDEOS is to raise awareness and support the HEC Montréal community, organizations, and entrepreneurs, as well as to disseminate knowledge by placing social impact at the heart of its actions. IDEOS favors a participatory approach whereby professors, students, and stakeholders in the ecosystem are called upon to collaborate, share, and contribute to

Groupe 3737

Groupe 3737 is a national not-for-profit organization which provides coaching and support tools for BIPOC business owners with an ecosystem of more than 1,000 entrepreneurs across Canada. Based in Montreal in one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Canada and housed in a mythical building that once hired immigrants for manufacturing work, Groupe 3737 represents the

Consortium de ressources et d’expertises coopératives

Collective enterprises make the difference for people. The Consortium makes the difference for collective enterprises. We believe that every collective enterprise should have access to the specialised services it needs. We bring together under one roof all the professional expertise relevant to the consolidation and development of collective entrepreneurship and offer it at the right