Creative Enterprise in Waterloo Region..
Simply put: It’s about jobs and the quality of life in Waterloo Region.

The 3rd CEI Community Update will be taking place on January 24th at the Jazz Room in Uptown Waterloo. Doors open at 5:30 pm.

CEI is hosting Funding 101: Speed Dating on February 1st at the Tannery Event Centre, starting at 1:00 pm. Please RSVP to info@creativeenterprise.ca by January 25th.

NEW! REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: WEBSITE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT (PDF)
NEW! REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: WEBSITE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT (Word Doc)
NEW! CEEO and Greater KW Chamber offer access to benefits and Chamber membership for artists and small businesses in creative sector
NEW! KW Chamber of Commerce Article – KW Record November 23, 2011
NEW! Inaugural CEEO Newsletter: November 2011
NEW! CEEO Update: Fall 2010
NEW! CEEO Update: Director, Audience Development Announcement
NEW! CEEO Update: Investment Program – First Round Recipients

The Creative Enterprise Agenda links arts and the creative process to a far wider range of economic activities. It encourages innovative thinking, fosters entrepreneurial business development and builds a community that enhances quality of life while attracting and retaining a young, well-educated, diverse work force that can live anywhere – but choose to live here.

Waterloo Region’s rich cultural heritage, entrepreneurial spirit, strong value on diversity and “can do” attitude create a unique context to make this work. Our ultimate goal is to generate private-sector employment and re-employment, in Creative Age industries – those that exist and those still to be imagined. How? By providing the catalyst that creates these new jobs in these new economies.

Initiated by the Prosperity Council of Waterloo Region, the Creative Enterprise Agenda underpins everything: What work looks like. What life looks like.

We aim to undertake this by:

   ●  Improving our quality of life: Prosperity is about wellness for all citizens.
   ●  Attracting and retaining the best and the brightest: Prosperity is about supporting a young, well-educated, diverse, professional workforce in all disciplines.
   ●  Cultivating the Creative Economy: Prosperity is about providing resources to make this happen.
   ●  Fostering bold, new ideas: Prosperity is about risk, experimentation and expansiveness across the globe.

The Creative Enterprise Agenda is ultimately about community investment. To reach this objective it is vital that we strengthen and make sustainable our arts and culture sector, in turn creating a vibrant and exciting place to live, work and play. A creative sector with a sustainable infrastructure is integral to fully realize long-term growth opportunities for Waterloo Region.

For background information on the Prosperity Council of Waterloo Region visit: www.prosperitywaterloo.com

PDF DOCUMENTS FOR DOWNLOADING

NEW! CEEO Update to All Council Meeting – December 7, 2011
Full Draft Strategic Plan November 3 2011
Press Release: Investment Program Pilot for the Waterloo Region Creative Industries is Announced
Press Release -- New CEO for Creative Enterprise Enabling Organization Announced
Barnraisers Media Release
Creative Enterprise Enabling Organization - Board of Directors Media Release
Creative Enterprise Enabling Organization - Community Update
Creative Enterprise Enabling Organization - Media Release
Creative Enterprise Enabling Organization - Background Timeline
Forum Presentation
Creative Enterprise Steering Committee
Creative Enterprise Timeline
Creative Enterprise - Resources Task Force
Creative Enterprise - Vision Task Force
Creative Enterprise - Structure Task Force
Enabling Organization - Call for Applications for the Board of Directors

Report on Model Communities Research
Part A   |   Part B

For more information contact:
info@creativeenterprise.ca
Tel. 519-301-6825