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NEWS

2013

iSisters appoints a new Executive Director, Linda Milton Perreault. Read the press release.

 

2012

November

We at iSisters were honoured that The Governor General of Canada, his Excellency The Right Honourable David Johnston mentioned iSisters Technology Mentoring in his Keynote Speech at the Community Foundation of Ottawa's 25th Anniversary event on November 19th, 2012.

October

Enjoy our latest video message

May

Our Spring Newsletter May 2012

February

iSisters is featured in the Community Foundation of Ottawa's 25th Anniversary Video.

2011

September

iSisters has been awarded the TELUS 2011

Innovation Award for our Mobile Lab project! 

TELUS Ottawa Community Board Chair, Arnie Vered and Shannon Gorman, Director Community Affairs present the Community Board Innovation Award to iSisters Board Member Carolyn Scott.

August

Our Summer Newsletter is here! August 2011

Accenture volunteers and iSisters staff unpack

and prepare the new laptops for the launch on

August 10th, 2011 of our Mobile Lab!

July

Funding support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation arrived. The funds will go toward the creation of a new Wordpress Website.

June

Read about our latest achievement:

May

New funding support arrived from TELUS, The Community Foundation of Ottawa, The City of Ottawa and Accenture's Skills to Succeed program for a new project to be run in partnership with Operation Come Home, The Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa and Tewegan House.

April

Classes commenced at the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization (OCISO) this month.  Seventeen eager new students are registered to take our four-week course. 

Read about our partnership with OCISO in the

Kitchissippi Times

iSisters launched the new version of our on-line elearning program, iTeachnology.  It is now live and available to all to use!

Click here to access iTeachnology.ca

2010

The Winter 2010 edition of our newsletter is here! December 2010

December

Funding renewal from The Leacross Foundation

The Leacross Foundation has offered its support and confidence to iSisters for a second year in a row. Thank-you to Roslyn Bern and the Leacross Foundation for sharing in our vision.

November

Tim Birch-Jones, project manager of iTeachnology, the iSisters elearning project was awarded with a United Way Community Builder award at our Annual General Meeting on Nov 2nd for his outstanding contribution to the iSisters community.

    Tim Birch-Jones is awarded

the Community Builder Award by

   United Way representative

             Sarah Onyango

 

April

iSisters has a new Executive Director

News Release

In April, iSisters was proud to accept the Conference Board of Canada's Global Best Award for Building Learning Communities.

Global Best Awards 2010

Carleton University Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work is pleased to announce the availability of new bursaries for the Management Development Program for Women (MDPW) for the 2010-11 academic year.  This year, there will be 6 Leacross Foundation / R. Bern full bursaries valued at $7,500 each available to women working in the Technology sector, Trades, the Not-for-Profit sector, and Small Business Owners.

 

2009

Zahide honoured as Community Builder

Read United Way Ottawa's Press Release which highlights Zahide's contributions. more...

Community Foundation of Ottawa

Ottawa Vital Signs Report 2009 released
See page 11 where our Zahide is profiled

Canadian Council on Learning
iSisters research report released
more...

November 2009, New Funding Awarded from the Inukshuk Wireless Partnership to develop iTeachnology

November 2009, New Funding from the Leacross Foundation to fund a community liaison position at iSisters

more...

November 2009, the Frank Cowan Foundation supports our work at Cornerstone Women's Shelter with another grant. The Frank Cowan Foundation has been supporting this program for three years.

EVENTS

2012

November

iSisters staff members had the pleasure of spending a day learning HTML/CSS through the Ladies Learning Code Workshop on November 24th. They proved to us that learning code could be fun!

October

Many thanks to all who attended our AGM on

October 30th.

Patricia den Boer, Chair of our board was

honoured with a United Way Community Builder Award for her many years of service with iSisters.

September

The Ottawa Browncoats raised over $3,600 for iSisters at their annual Serenity film screening on Sunday, September 30th at  the Mayfair Theatre!  Our warmest thanks to all who attended!

Elation Centre Yoga has started a weekly Community Karma Yoga Class devoted to raising funds for iSisters and other charities. The class runs every Sunday starting Sept 16 -Dec 16th. 

July

Begin 2 Believe's Volleyball Fundraiser for iSisters

on July 28th was a great success!  Thank-you to

all the players and volunteers for such a fantastic day.

2011

November

Our 10th Anniversary party on November 15th

was a great success!

Jolynn Sommervill, Executive Director

Patricia den Boer, Board Chair presents iSisters

Founder, Cathy Lewis with a gift for her years of

service.

 

 

 

 

 

Sophal Paeng launches the website she

created while taking the iSisters Web 2.0 course

using our Mobile Lab at Tewegan House.

 

iSisters friends, supporters and champions enjoy

the show.

The cutting of the cake.

October

The Ottawa Browncoatts held a screening and fundraiser for iSisters on Sunday, October 2nd at the Mayfair Cinema.  A fun and successful event it was!

              

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