SUPPORTING INDIGENOUS ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Pow Wow Pitch is a grassroots community of Indigenous entrepreneurs across Turtle Island, purpose-built to provide a safe, collaborative, supportive and empowering platform for inspiration, education, mentorship, celebration, and reconciliation through entrepreneurship.
We enhance, develop and accelerate growth for current and aspiring Indigenous entrepreneurs in a sustainable way through programs and resources. Our programs are rooted in community leadership through volunteerism as a reflection of respect and reciprocity.
VISION & MISSION
It’s about People. Our vision is for every Indigenous entrepreneur to feel supported by a community cheering them on as they take action on their ideas and build businesses rooted in Indigenous culture.
Our mission is to provide platforms, programs and resources to support Indigenous entrepreneurs to start and grow thriving and sustainable businesses that make a difference.
ACKNOWLEDGING OUR
POW WOW ROOTS
Pow Wow is a place to meet, dance, sing, honour our culture and trade. Indigenous people have the ideas to make a difference in their communities across Turtle Island and the world. Pow Wow Pitch is our platform to grow our social impact and support one another as a community.
OUR FOUNDER
Kwey, my name is Sunshine Tenasco, and I’m from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg.
I started Pow Wow Pitch because I believe entrepreneurship is the path to self-sufficiency. Entrepreneurship is a big part of Indigenous heritage. We used to call it trade— we are just reawakening to entrepreneurship.
Being on Dragons Den changed my life path. When Brett Wilson and Arlene Dickinson (two very influential business people) invested and believed in me, it gave me the courage to continue my entrepreneurship journey. I hope that Pow Wow Pitch helps to give that gift to someone else. I love seeing entrepreneurs succeed.
ADVISORY BOARD
Jennifer Harper
Gina Wilson
Jennifer M. Sloan
Aaron Martyniw
Debbie Reid
Kyle St-Amour-Brennan
Shannin Metatawabin
Darian Kovacs
TEAM
Pow Wow Pitch programming, partnerships and production are delivered by Lennox Innovations in collaboration with Signature Motion, Raven Reads, Simplificare, Nativelovenotes and a team of entrepreneurial leaders committed to supporting and shining the spotlight on Indigenous entrepreneurs.
Matt Nahdee
Nicole McLaren
Amy Jackson
Deanna Wampler
Leah Claire
Kegona Tenasco
Amber Asp-Chief
Chaela Grace Kindess
Victoria Lennox MSM
Niba Suh, CPA, CGA
Cyprian Szalankiewicz, MSM
