NEWS
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:
iSisters and OCISO: A Partnership Story.
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.
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EVENTS
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!
August
Begin 2 Believe's Volleyball Fundraiser for iSisters
on August 20th was a great success! Thank-you to
all the players and volunteers for such a fantastic day.
The players and volunteers.
The iSisters team!
April
Elation Centre sponsored our Volunteer Appreciation event on April 9th. iSisters volunteers were invited to attend an afternoon of Core Yoga followed by a smoothie demo by Sylvie Gouin, co-founder of Elation Yoga.
March 22nd
The names of the United Way Community Builder Award
recipients were inscribed on The Wall of Inspiration at Ottawa City Hall today, including iSisters volunteer Tim Birch-Jones!
Mayor Jim Watson congratulates Tim Birch-Jones.
March 8th
iSisters' new Technology and Learning Centre opened
at the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization (OCISO) on International Women's Day.
(L to R) Bertha Mo, OCISO Counselling Manager,
Jolynn Sommervill, Executive Director, iSisters,
Bibi Patel, Vice President, Community Foundation
of Ottawa and Katherine Hobbs, Councillor,
Kitchissippi Ward open the centre.
Zahide Yilbas, iSisters Technology Instructor and
Program Manager introduces a student to the new lab
at OCISO on International Women's Day.
Read about our partnership with OCISO in the
Kitchissippi Times
Sisters Annaul General Meeting
November 2nd, 2010
Our AGM was held at the United Way Ottawa. We were pleased to have over 30 people in attendance to enjoy the premiere of a video of our learners produced by Graham Law as well as an update by our elearning team on the next phase of our iteachnology project, Alison Telford from the Cornerstone Women's Centre was our guest speaker and iSisters volunteer, Tim Birch-Jones was surprised with a United Way Community Builder award. Thank-you to all who made the event a success.
Ongoing Events
Begin2Believe Volleyball Tournement raised anonther $500.00 for iSisters! Many thanksonce again to the B2B team!
Live Vitally Now - Yoga at Your Desk
Ottawa's top health and wellness guru's, Sylvie Gouin of Core-elation YOGA and Donna Davis of Movement to Health, and a group of certified local Yoga teachers have teamed up and designed a program aimed at improving physical and mental well being at your workplace.
Contact iSisters' Paula Pyne for more details.
Download the flyer.
Past Events
Begin2Believe Volleyball Tournement on August 28th raised $800.00 for iSisters! Many thanks to the B2B team and all the players and volunteers who participated!
iSisters particpated as volunteers at the Tim Horton's Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival June 18-20
Dragon Boat Festival 2010
June 20th iSisters participated in the B2B Volleyball Tournement Begin2Believe
Can't Stop the Serenity Fundraiser
Sunday June 27th 2010
iSisters was chosen as the charity of choice for this unique event.
Stop the Serenity at the Mayfair Cinema
International Volunteer Week
April 18 to 24
iSisters Volunteer Appreciation Night
April 23 Contact info@isisters.org for details
Friday Yoga at Core-Elation
Into yoga or want to try? Long time iSisters supporter Core-Elation is donating proceeds from every Friday 5:30 pm yoga class to iSisters, Oct 26 - Dec 11. Thank you to Core-Elation and Movement to Health for your generous and genuine support. View the class schedule...
iSisters Annaul General Meeting
Was held on September 28, 2009 at Algonquin College. Karen Soloman was our gracious MC, Bibi Patel from the Community Foundation of Ottawa was our guest speaker and iSisters Zahide Yilbas was surprised with a United Way Community Builder award. Thank you to all who made the event a success. Our 2008/2009 annual report was released at the event.
Begin2Believe Volleyball Tournament
On Saturday August 22 at Mooney's Bay iSisters was the charity of choice for the Begin2Believe volleyball tournament. It was a beautiful summer Saturday where 16 teams played six games through the tournament. iSisters did not make the playoffs - shocking - but we had a blast. Thank you to our new friends at B2B!
Saturday August 15 iSisters was out supporting the Rideau Valley Roller Girls. Read more...
On April 21 iSisters celebrated National Volunteer Week with a night of bowling, mingling and cake! Thank you to all of our dedicated volunteers who make the magic happen.
Interested in volunteering for iSisters? Check out our volunteer page or email info@isisters.org.
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