PARO in Community - Awards and Achievements

The Canadian Women’s Community Economic Development Council
SHAPING PUBLIC POLICY
THE WOMEN’S AGENDA

Pre-conference Forum - March 15, 2006
2006 National Conference on CED & the Social Economy
KEYNOTE ADDRESS - THE ASK
(click here to download, pdf file of address)
Armine Yalnizyan
Economist, Research Associate
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

(left to right)
Rosalind Lockyer - Gloria Steinman - Carol Rock
Women's Leadership Forum

Margot Franssen & Rosalind Lockyer
Women's Leadership Forum

In recognition of its outstanding achievements,
PARO , as well as staff members have been the recipients of numerous awards including:

     Rosalind Lockyer, Public Sector

While mining companies large and small are spending millions of dollars prospecting for gold in Northern Ontario, Rosalind Lockyer thinks she has found the mother load. "Women are the hidden gold in the North," says Lockyer,
co-founder and executive director of PARO Centre for Women's Enterprise.

The untapped human resource will move the region's economy forward, she adds. Through times of crisis, history has proven women bring enough intestinal fortitude to drive towns, cities, regions and even countries out from the economic muck to the well-travelled road of success, she says. 
Read this article:  http://www.influentialwomen.ca/2005/NOBIW_Content_Winners_detail.asp?view=6857
& read overall awards review (download .pdf file here)

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Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce 2005
Employee of the Year Award
Lori Wychopen Morin



Lori is a Business Development Trainer
with PARO's "Making a Difference Program"
http://www.tb-chamber.on.ca/index.asp?pg=awards

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2002 - The Soroptomist International of the Americas
(Eastern Canada) for advancing the status of women

2004 - The Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce Award
for Business Excellence (Not-for-Profit)

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