Over the past 25 years, The Canadian Centre for Aboriginal Entrepreneurship, Inc. has assisted over 3,500 entrepreneurs across Turtle Island (Canada, US and South America) on the road to successful self-employment.
Come on inside and discover how we can assist you or your organization in creating self-employment training that is successful, sustainable, easy to understand, and FUN.
Building Skills, Inspiring Growth:
Our Featured Programs
Use this space to promote the business, its products or its services.
Use this space to promote the business, its products or its services.
Bring A Course To Your Community
Bring the BEST to your Community! All programs are delivered live, In-Person, Online or Hybrid training with all participants interacting is the most effective and fun way to learn and share. We at the CCAE are providing in-person, on-site training based on current Covid-19 conditions and regulations in your community.
You and the CCAE will work together to create a tailored-for-your clients training sessions that serves your communities needs.
Sponsor a Webinar for Your Community
HAVE A BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS TRAINING (BEST) WEBINAR IN YOUR COMMUNITY
(for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous webinars)
Live webinars a better choice for your community? No problem!
The CCAE uses cutting edge technology so that ANYONE can easily log in and take part.
-
No software to download: just click the link we send, and you are IN
-
Webinar works on any device: laptop, phone, tablet.
-
Participants can ask questions, chat, show their faces, and even be given “the floor” to present their own ideas
-
Everyone gets a copy of the Powerpoint slides and videos used, and can review the whole presentation afterwards
-
Each participant also gets
-
a copy of the > 250 page BEST Participant Manual,
-
easy to use, fill-in-the blanks Business Plan template, including Financial Statements. (Pricing, Personal Budget, Net Worth, and Projected Cash Flow Statement)
-
final exam, with results and corrected
-
Graduation Certificate if attending 90% of sessions and pass the test
-
Together, you and the CCAE will determine the “best” times and dates, and we will tailor the content to serve your needs.
Real Stories of Transformation and Growth
Bring an in-person program to your community
In-Person
Have a BEST webinar in your community
BEST Webinar
Individual Online Training
Individual Online
Training Options
Mountain Sky Soaps www.mountainskysoap.com Raynald Losier and Nina George started the family business in 1993 to stay home with their kids, Malaya Mountain and Rahel Sky. Mountain Sky manufactures soaps, massage bars and lip balm for the company and for private labels.
Mountain Sky Soaps
Artist Nigel Fox www.nigelfoxart.com graduated from the 2010 BEST program held in Terrace. We asked him about his business experiences:
Q. “How far you have gone with your business idea?”
Nigel Fox
Orene Askew was pretty content with her life. She had a job, was very active, but always had some business ideas looming in her head. She decided she wanted to start her own DJ-ing business. The idea had been in her head for over 3 years, but she wasn’t sure how to pursue it head on.
DJ "O Show"
As a 2005 graduate of the Helen Lafaux School of Fashion Design in Vancouver, Andrea Hughes had been putting together her accumulated knowledge and experience, gleaned from years of working in the film industry, for her idea of a full-service bridal shop.
KISS THE BRIDE Custom Wedding and Grad
Yvette Carol Adams is a Haida from the Tsâ aahl Laanas clan and took part in Aboriginal BEST on Haida Gwaii in 2011. “I create and design my own work: pendants made of yellow cedar, red cedar, yew wood, devils club, alder, beads from the same kind of wood as the pendants,
Haida Gwaii Art Shop
Sauce so good, he got on CBC’s Dragon’s Den. Ebesse Zozo Hot Sauce is the creation of Edmund Segbeaya who hails from Togo, a small country in West Africa. Hot sauce is part of everyday life in Togo, hot foods and hot sauces are eaten with every meal.
Ebesse ZoZo on Dragon’s Den
Once he found fame impersonating bespectacled rocker Buddy Holly, and led the Crickets astray on a diving tour of the UK. Now, leading technical diver John Garvin has helped to pull together what could be the most authentic diving movie to date.
O2 Technical Diving
Inez Jasper is a singer songwriter with powerhouse talent and universal appeal. As one of Canada’s top aboriginal musicians, her blending of traditional native sounds with a love for contemporary hip hop and R&B, brings the best of her culture to the mainstream world.
Inez Jasper
Contact
Bruce Lacroix, President
The Canadian Centre for Aboriginal Entrepreneurship, Inc.
406 Richards Street
Nelson, BC, Canada V1L 5K1
Phone: 1-226-243-5653
© 2024 The Canadian Centre for Aboriginal Entrepreneurship, Inc.