Corrie Henderson
Founder and Executive Director @One Spark
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WORK HISTORY
Founder and Executive Director @One Spark
One Spark\'s vision is a world where no woman faces financial barriers to living a life without violence. Our goal is to break down the barriers to violence-free lives by assisting every woman who would like to register her own business to do so. Through our community partnerships, we are beginning with a focus on working with women participating in a residential or outreach program housed by women\'s shelters. Our goal is three-fold:1. To remove barriers that limit the capacity for women experiencing violence to generate income. As a registered business, women can immediately offer products, skills, and services that can generate additional revenue and/or supplement existing income. Entrepreneurship may afford women greater flexibility with their work hours as well as provide more manageable options for balancing work with any care-giving or other life responsibilities. To help re-frame the relationship between women and entrepreneurship. Owning a business is often seen as a higher-risk venture undertaken by people with a financial safety net in place. By facilitating business registration and set-up, One Spark is removing barriers to becoming a business owner and promoting entrepreneurship as a viable and accessible option for any woman to generate/increase income. To empower women with a financial safety plan and a sense of ownership over their future. One Spark\'s philosophy does not impose expectations on the women we work with, but focuses on creating equitable access to self-employment, so that women might have a viable income source any time they may need or want to access it. Our goal is for women to feel empowered by their ownership of this aspect of their lives, irrespective of the level of entrepreneurship they choose to engage in, and to assist them in building skills that will empower them in their pursuit of lives free of violence.
EDUCATION
Schulich School of Business - York University
MBA, Strategic Management
Queen's University
BA, Honours, Political Science
SKILLS
ABOUT CORRIE HENDERSON
Executive Director at Women’s Interval Home of Sarnia-Lambton
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