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

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 most recent success story in the Community Foundation of Ottawa's Annual Report:  iSisters and OCISO:

Our Partnership Story.

New funding support arrived from TELUS, The Community Foundation of Ottawa, The City of Ottawa and Accenture 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.  Seventeer eager new students are registered to take our four-week course. 

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 Award Winners 2010

2009

Zahide Yilbas, United Way Community Builder Award

Read the United Way Ottawa's Press Release which highlights Zahide's contributions. Zahide's name has been added permanently at City Hall's Wall of Inspiration.

Cathy Lewis, iSisters Founder and Zahide Yilbas, iSisters Program Manager and award recipient celebrate Zahide's name being added to Ottawa's Wall of Inspiration.

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...

The Leacross Foundation Funds Expansion

The Leacross Foundation has funded a new community liaison position at iSisters. The new initiative will build formal and informal connections within the community to connect our learners with employment programs and resources. Within a year, an asset map of employment resources will be produced and made available to our learners and partners, as well as being publicly accessible through our website. This is an essential next step in our growth planning at iSisters. Thank you to Roslyn and the Leacross Foundation for sharing in our vision.

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