Working with Behdad and Reinvest Wealth was a pleasure!

Great learning opportunity and hope to be apart of this program in the future. Unless I missed a step, I feel there should be clearer guidance from the VFC administrator. I tried reaching out and never got a response. I didn't feel prepared to lead the cohort and feel I may have missed some important steps along the way. Hoping I am more prepared for the next cohort and will continue to reach out to VFC for guidance. Overall, it was a great experience and went well.

The project went very well and our team of students were committed to working hard and researching everything they needed to complete their assignments.

I haven't heard from the student since February 3rd (it is February 21st), even after two attempts to reach out over email. The last time we had a meeting was January 21st. There was a couple moments of miscommunication for that, but there was a couple times I was waiting for them to join the meeting, as I had sent a link, and they didn't join or send any communication about missing it (once they did send a message the next day saying they lost power, which I understand). However, I had been trying to meet each week but either wasn't hearing back about a suitable time or they didn't join the meeting. They have marked the milestones as complete but I haven't received any document or any communication from them.

Great program with motivated students. I discovered very interesting students through this program and I also improved our way of presenting a project/mandate, which will help in the future when working with outside contributors. This is the type of program that gets better as you go, as you can improve on the material to present for onboarding as well as distribution of work. Strongly recommend it.

The opportunity to work with Venture for Canada students was something that we, Housing Ontario University Student Equitably (HOUSE Ontario), couldn't pass up – and we are truly glad we didn't! All five (%) intrapreneurs brought something truly unique to the table. From creative writing skills, to organizational feedback, to the development of new partnerships, VFC intrapreneurs brought more than we had expected to the table. And a huge shoutout to Carey Jiang, Mathew Jarvis-Cross, Brianna Barett, Ipek tezol, and Kanish Baskaran for not only meeting our $150,000 non-profit fundraising goal, but exceeding the goal by writing grants worth a total of $500,000. Most importantly, VFC Intrapreneurs became and invaluable part of our systems planning process. They helped us map our onboarding process, through to the pre-hiring/hiring process, and while positions may be limited, we're excited to be able to extend summer job positions to our cohort of intrapreneurs. Truly a valuable business growth and development opportunity.

VFC did an amazing job of guiding us through the process and making it clear, simple and effective to participate.

I really enjoyed working with this diverse team of individuals from across the country. The students were very engaged in their work and passionate about our impact we have made and are working towards making in our business community. It's been a pleasure working with these students and watching them learn and grow through working together and with our team.

VFC is great, this particular project had less than seller results.

This was a great opportunity to support students' interests in learning new skills.

Thank you to the VFC staff for providing us with clear and helpful instructions on how to get students to work on our marketing project.

This group of students was very professional. At every point during the project we felt we were working with highly experienced marketing professionals who asked the right questions and designed strategies for our line of work.

Working with Venture for Canada was a great experience. Any questions we had during the process were promptly addressed by the VFC team. The entire process was very well organized and easy to complete.

An excellent project partner. Their team is a pleasure to work with.

The students were creative, communicative, and eager to learn. They adapted and adjusted to all of the issues and roadblocks along the way.

Our intern Nirmal Pol did a fabulous job on the project. He was thoughtful, asked great questions and was great to work with. I wish we could get him for longer if possible.

The students worked very hard on this project and completed valuable deliverables within the timeframe even though we started three weeks late. We had trouble connecting to administrators on the riipen platform for extension requests and to report a student who was not involved although signed up.

Regular communication, great team of students.

It was difficult to figure out what the students were studying, what skills they have and what their interests are. Companies should receive an information package that also includes resumes.

Overall, we had a very good experience with the VFC program. The students brought great fresh perspectives to our marketing communications and inspired several changes that we made to the look of our website and social media pages.

Excellent!

The student was very smart. She helped me a lot.

VFC is a good program. The student did not join this particular project, but I have other projects that are running smoothly. Thank you.

We appreciated the opportunity to have a student work with us on a very specific project. We loved the opportunity VFC provided through their intrapreneurship program. We would recommend this program to other businesses.

The 3 students that were involved were very active during the first 3 weeks, however, they did not complete the tasks during the last 3 weeks.

Overall Agrégat is very happy with the VFC program, candidates and result. The deliverables are extremely useful for our small organization.

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This is a great program that provides capacity to SMEs and at the same time some very valuable (PAID!) experience to students.

This team of women were amazing! They supported me, Dimension 11 and each other. Together they were able to find solutions to the challenges posed. Each was forthright in asking questions and providng input to find those solutions. When not available for a meeting they were all respectful of each other and me in lettting us know so we could find alternative dates and times. The project has been completed with numerous small to medium sized employers the world over being contacted. Each of these women will receive an individual testimonial letter they can use in any supportive ways they deem feasible.

This team had 2 students (out of 4 ) active on the project. The 2 students worked well as a team to lever each other's findings and methods to improve their presentation materials, pitch and report - in the end worked out. Would be great to have the program 6 weeks instead of 4 and to have students work to completed milestone timelines for their time sheets (was asked who approves their time sheets and how that works). Would be great to have students who decide to not show or drop out to let both the client and VFC know right away by email and ripen (sometimes messages are not in my email) of their commitment do or show up for the project.