Impactful Reports
WeBC Impact Report: 2019 to 2024
For 30 years, WeBC has been a vital resource for women entrepreneurs across British Columbia, offering financing, training, and mentorship to help businesses thrive. Recognizing the need to measure its impact, WeBC conducted this Impact Study to assess its effectiveness during the 5-year period from 2019 to 2024, and identify opportunities for growth.
This five-year impact report reveals a powerful truth: empowering women entrepreneurs isn’t just a mission—it’s a movement that can redefine Canada’s economic future.
Closing the Gap: Meeting the Unique Borrowing Needs of BC’s Women Business Owners
This report is a follow-up to our November 2020 survey and report, The Path Forward: Advancing the Funding Journeys of BC Women Business Owners, which offers recommendations to funders on how to develop varied funding pathways for women business owners.
Vancity Women Entrepreneurs Program Impact Report
The Women Entrepreneurs Program (WEP) is a partnership between Vancity and WeBC that supports women and non-binary entrepreneurs in BC with financing from Vancity and wrap-around support from WeBC. Through this program, Vancity has lent over $27 million, and WeBC has provided more than 3,100 hours of support to help entrepreneurs leverage their loans and build stronger businesses.
WEP is a strong example of a values-driven initiative that has promoted genuine change in how women interact with financial institutions. It goes beyond a marketing initiative and considers how women create value with their businesses, define success, and need to be supported. This report shares the incredible impact of the program since its relaunch in 2021.
The Path Forward: Advancing the Funding Journeys of BC Women Business Owners (2020)
WeBC proudly presents this insightful report, highlighting the findings of a survey conducted with over 400 women business owners in November 2020. The survey explores the funding women entrepreneurs need, their ability to access it, and the support that can help them during COVID recovery and beyond.
Recent studies reveal the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women entrepreneurs, threatening the progress made in advancing women’s entrepreneurship in Canada.
WeBC Annual Reports
Explore WeBC’s Annual Reports to see how we support women at every stage of their small business journey across all regions of British Columbia.
Discover insights into our programs, impact, and commitment to empowering women entrepreneurs to start, develop, lead, and grow their businesses.
Advancing women entrepreneurs through research
Through ongoing research, WeBC and our ecosystem partners work to improve support for women entrepreneurs.
Research
The Path Forward: Advancing the Funding Journeys of BC Women Business Owner...
WeBC proudly presents this insightful report, highlighting the findings of a survey conducted with over 400 women business ow...
FREEResearch
State of Women’s Entrepreneurship in Canada 2021
From Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (WEKH) The State of Women’s Entrepreneurship in Canada 2021 report provides an in...
FREEResearch
Growing Their Own Way: High-Growth Women Entrepreneurs in Canada
From the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship, October 2020 In partnership with the Women Entrepreneurship ...
FREEResearch
Navigating the Road to Success: How to Support Women Entrepreneurs (2021)
From Women’s Enterprise Organizations of Canada (WEOC) Close to 1,000 women entrepreneurs from across Canada were asked to ...
FREEResearch
Financial Knowledge & Financial Confidence: Closing Gender Gaps in Fina...
From Scotiabank Women Initiative Accessing financing is one of the most significant challenges for small business owners, and...
FREEResearch
2016 BC Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Survey Results
In August 2016, WeBC (formerly Women’s Enterprise Centre) surveyed business service providers within the entrepreneurial ec...
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