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Our third annual Cardboard Project happened online in May and you can watch it in the comfort of your won home!  Nine speakers with diverse stories and perspectives shared their thoughts on this year’s question: What have you learned about community and connection in the past year? Don’t miss this opportunity to watch Employ to Empower entrepreneurs as well as community leaders such as Overdose Prevention Society executive-director Sarah Blyth, Hastings Sunrise MLA Niki Sharma, SFU professor Diane Finegold, and licensed practical nurses Hannah Ahn and Shafia Ali share their thoughts on how COVID-19 has impacted us. Watch All 3 Sessions

 Throughout May and June of this year, Employ to Empower partnered with Insight Global Education, a program run at Mulgrave, a local private school, to host community-based, educational programming on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals with their grade 7, 8 and 9 students. Through this partnership, Employ to Empower had the opportunity to help entrepreneurs build relationships with high school students through mutually beneficial learning opportunities. To learn more about how this opportunity came to be and the value of this experience we sat down with Christina Wong, co-founder and executive director as well as Elwood Price, co-founder of Crap...