At Impact, our main goal is to spread social entrepreneurship initiatives to youth across Canada. We have some really exciting events, programs and contests set to launch over the next few months, so be sure to keep following what we’re up to!

As entrepreneurs, we’re always focused on ROI and “Risk vs. Reward”, so how about we offer a no risk, high reward for helping us reach 2,000 Facebook Fans by July 31, 2010? We would like to invite one of our loyal fans to join us at our 7th annual Impact National Conference, taking place on November 12- 13th, 2010 in Downtown Toronto (over a $700 value!).

Held in November, the annual Impact National Conference brings together 500 of Canada’s top young leaders from high schools, universities and colleges. These future leaders participate in a two day long experience filled with workshops, breakout sessions, keynote speakers, a banquet and an awards ceremony. Past speakers at the conference include Harry Rosen (Founder of Harry Rosen Inc.), Frank O’Dea (Founder of Second Cup), Marc and Craig Kielburger (Founders of Free the Children) and many more!

Here’s what you do:

1) Get on Facebook

2) Become a fan at www.Facebook.com/ImpactFanPage

3) Share our page and invite your friends to sign up too!

So how do I win the FREE Impact National Conference ticket?

If we hit 2,000 fans before July 31, 2010 we’ll randomly select a winner!

Help the Impact Entrepreneurship Group SPREAD SOCIAL entrepreneurship across Canada and reward yourself with great ROI!

Brought to you by:

Impact Marketing | Spread Social

www.Impact.org

Calling All Students!

Register now for these special Net Change Week events using the discount code “ncwk_student”* and receive over 65% off!

*(case sensitive, without quotation marks)

Do you want to start your own business but don’t know where to start? If so, then why not come to meshU?

At meshU, you will be able to learn about design, team management, and development in workshops run by those who have run successful startups.

Here are some of the experts that will be speaking at meshU:

• Meredith Noble, Usability Matters
• Aza Raskin, Mozilla
• Chris Thorpe, The Guardian
• Joe Stump, Digg
• Dan Martell, Flowtown
• Isaac Garcia, Central Desktop
• Sean Ellis, 12in6
• Antony Upward, CGI’s Global SAP Practice

Click here to see the full list of speakers.

The details for this event are as follows:

Date: May 17th, 2010
Time: 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Location: 101 College Street, Toronto, ON

You can register for this event at http://www.meshu.ca/.

Impact Innovate 2010 was a one-day discussion about innovative thought and the entrepreneurial spirit. Participants gained critical new skills, pondered provoking ideas and met potential future business partners. We’re proud to say that Impact Innovate was a resounding success, and attracted youth from all over Kingston! The day was filled with great conversation, networking and engaging words of advice from our talented speakers. Speakers included:

Bruce Poon Tip (Founder & President/CEO, Gap Adventures, Speaker @ TEDx Bangkok and TEDx Whistler)
Julie Mitchell (Founder & Owner, Parcel Design)
Lauren Friese (Founder & Owner, Talent Egg)
Bobby Umar (Founder & President, Raeallan Consulting)
Alyssa Richard (Co-Founder, Break into Business)
Dave Hale (Co-Founder & CEO, Re: Cognition Branding)
Peng-Sang Cau (Co-Founder & President/CEO, Transformix Engineering)
Michele Romanow (Co-Founder, Evandale Caviar)

Check out these pictures from Innovate:

After the sold out success of VEF Momentum: Higher, Faster, Stronger, VEF Momentum is pleased to announce their second event of the year:  “Go To Market”.

This event will feature an exciting speaker, Jason Smith, who is the President of Product Innovation at Vision Critical. Jason will share the Vision Critical story and discuss successful strategies on how to go to market with a new product. Jason is a recipient of the Ernst and Young’s Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year award, the BDC Young Entrepreneur of the Year national award, and he was named one of Business in Vancouver’s top 40 under 40.

The last VEF Momentum event hosted 230 people and as usual it was sold out. Please make sure to register early to reserve your spot!  Registration is available here.

When: Friday, April 16th, 2010
Start Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Pop Opera Night Club, 686 W Hastings, Vancouver
Tickets: $10 and  Students $5 using code “EasterEgg” - Register now (Registration is online only, there will be no registrations at the door)

Ticket price includes light appetizers, so arrive early to sample the best! More great things you can expect:

• Excellent company and a comfortable environment to meet a diverse crowd of established entrepreneurs, up and comers, investors, mentors and professionals.
• Trendy and comfortable atmosphere to network with new acquaintances and catch up with people you haven’t seen in a while!

You can expect to meet:

• Young technology entrepreneurs from across the city.
• Student entrepreneurs from universities and colleges across the Lower Mainland.
• Early-stage, first-time entrepreneurs talking about their start-ups.
• Venture capitalists and angel investors.
• Established entrepreneurs with wisdom to share.
• Service providers from the accounting, legal and finance fields as potential mentors.

For more information, please contact VEF Momentum at vefmomentum@gmail.com. You can also follow them on Twitter (@VEFMomentum), Facebook (VEF Momentum) or LinkedIn (group name: VEF Momentum).