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The Decision Point
A useful source of information is The Decision Point, which has a keyword facility for specific topics and a structured hierarchy by area of business management.

The Kauffman Foundation
Another source of many articles and essays on relevant topics can be found on the web site of the Kauffman Foundation, which also has a powerful keyword function, linking visitors to their own and external sites.

Your Network of Business Information and Services
This section of the Canada Business portal contains a wide range of basic information and definitions for people who are starting a business or may be unfamiliar with many business terms.

Starting a Business: Step by Step
This site by Business Development Bank of Canada offers a comprehensive overview of issues in starting a business.

The Business Start-up Assistant
This Canada Business site includes comprehensive information on all aspects of starting a business, tailored for each province where appropriate.

Starting a Home-based Business - a manual for success
This publication is part of the "Solutions for Small Business" series sponsored by Western Economic Diversification and B.C. Ministry of Competition, Science and Enterprise. Getting off to a solid start is crucial to success. This manual shows you how.
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Mentoring

Business mentoring generally involves providing business guidance, advice and direction, frequently in a one-on-one situation.

BizCoach
BizCoach Manitoba is a non-profit organization offering mentoring services to qualifying Manitoba small businesses to help them achieve success.

Peer Resources
Peer Resources has developed a broad range of information and useful tips on all aspects of mentoring and coaching. It includes special articles on every group, from kids to seniors and from career counselling to owner-operator mentoring. It also lists a very large number of mentoring and coaching organizations in Canada and elsewhere.

Mentor Programs
The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) offers one-on-one tailored mentoring support to its young Canadian entrepreneurs to help them succeed in business.

SME-Youth Program
The Canadian Executive Services Overseas' support to SME-Youth program offers mentorship services, technical advice and management support for young entrepreneurs to assist them in developing their businesses.

Service de parrainage (mentorat) au Québec (In French only)
Information on a mentoring program developed by La Fondation de l'entrepreneurship. The site identifies access to a wide network of mentors available to entrepreneurs in the province of Quebec, with specific contacts listed by sub-region.

Just-in-time Mentoring Solutions
A sophisticated online mentoring management system by Corporate Mentoring Solutions Inc. that matches business managers, entrepreneurs and employees with a mentor. Participants complete a 'mentoring interest profile' that helps determine the rational for starting the program.

Peer Mentoring Program
The Young Entrepreneurs Association (YEA) is a volunteer-driven non-profit organization who support young people in business. YEA offers a peer mentoring program that enable small groups of young entrepreneurs to meet to discuss in confidentiality their relevant business management issues.

National Resources

CATA WIT (Women in Technology) Forum
CATA WIT (Women in Technology) Forum is a new community network designed to boost women's participation and advancement in the high-growth technology sector. Its mission is to help women in technology companies advance in their careers and succeed as entrepreneurs through mentoring, networking, professional development and advocacy. WIT Forum is a division of CATAAlliance, the industry's largest high tech trade association, enabling the Forum to advocate for and and assist women across all technology sectors. WIT members benefit from CATA platform of services and resources and from CATA overall mandate to advance the business of technology.

Canadian Entrepreneurial Women
Canadian Entrepreneurial Women is an online networking group for women in business in Canada. An e-mail discussion list and on-line resources files are available. Loosely knit "chapters" that meet "face to face" are held occasionally. There are 130 members in every provinces and coast-to-coast. Each member helps each other by doing business with each other, finding other women to collaborate on projects with, or asking for/receiving help regarding running a business in Canada. Members are home-based and public - retail, service and wholesale - in every sector of the economy.

Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
(CFBPWC), better known as BPW Canada, the Canadian Federation, as a member of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, links business and professional women across Canada to provide support for and recognition of their achievements, and to work toward equality of opportunity and economic security for all women.

Canadian Women's Business Network
This group offers information on networking for businesswomen.

Canadian Women in Communications (CWC)
The CWC is a national, bilingual, not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the involvement and impact of women in the converging communications industries. The site includes background information, events, articles, and membership information.

Women Business Owners of Canada
Women business owners in Canada now have a national organization to promote sharing of information and advice, and serve as a consolidated voice of influence on their behalf.

Women Entrepreneurs of Canada Foundation
WEC is a dynamic organization offering seasoned women entrepreneurs an opportunity to profile, promote and meet with other successful business women.

Eastern Canada (NB, NS, PEI, NF)

Association of Atlantic Women Business Owners (AAWBO)
A resource group of women business owners committed to sharing information, and supporting and encouraging each other.

Newfoundland and Labrador Organization for Women Entrepreneurs (NLOWE)
A not-for-profit organization aimed at supporting women's contribution to growth in business and community economic development.

Ontario & Quebec

Femmes et entrepreneuriat en Mauricie (FEM) (In French only)
Femmes et entrepreneuriat en Mauricie (FEM), is a not-for-profit organization managed by an administration board, mainly formed by women entrepreneurs from the Mauricie territory. You will find on their site: the mission, the list of their services, some information on their investment fund, an electronic billboard containing various information on their organization as well as a list of useful links.

Guelph Women in Networking (GWIN)
Guelph Women in Networking advocates the success of female entrepreneurs, women with business careers, and business women by committing its members to supporting each other in their business and professional development.

K-W Business Women's Association
Located in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, K-W Business Women in Networking is a professional association for business women that advocates the success of its members on a professional and personal level.

London Business and Professional Women's Club (London BPWC)
The Business and Professional Women's Club is a non-for-profit and non-partisan, feminist organization which promotes the interests of working women. It operates within the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs towards the improvement of the status of women in all phases of society, especially in business, the professions and industry.

Central Canada (MB, SK)

Manitoba Women's Enterprise Centre
Manitoba's only non-profit organizations dedicated to helping entrepreneurial women address the unique challenges facing them as they build their businesses. The Centre provides an extensive range of practical, results-oriented services such as business advice by appointment, loans (start-up and expansion), seminars, referrals, networking and mentoring opportunities for Manitoba women.

Women Business Owners of Manitoba Inc.
A non-profit independent organization that addresses the unique needs of the woman entrepreneur.

Western Canada (AB, BC)

Alberta Women's Enterprise Initiative Association
Provides women entrepreneurs with business resources, financing, coaching, information and networking opportunities.

The Progressive Group for Independent Business Women (PGIBW)
PGIBW is a business organization designed to help women in business to grow their businesses through networking clubs, take their business to the next level through Women's Edge training sessions, save them money by getting business owners low merchant rates and get their business exposure through the Online Business Directory for Women www.womenspages.ca.

Womens Enterprise Society of British Columbia
Funded through a contribution from Western Economic Diversification Canada, WES-BC offers access to a loan fund, advisory services, pathfinding to existing services plus a host of unique products and services tailored to meet the needs of women entrepreneurs.

International Resources

Asian Women in Business (AWIB)
AWIB is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1995 to assist Asian women to realize their entrepreneurial potential. AWIB fills a vital need for women who need information, education and networking opportunities to start or expand their businesses.

National Association for Female Executives (NAFE) Women@Work Web Site
Women @ Work provides a multitude of resources for women in business, such as a discussion room and marketplace to discover new products, services and companies.


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