Rise Press Releases

• $1 million in small business loans provided by Rise Asset Development to entrepreneurs overcoming mental health and addiction challenges
• Rise Asset Development Celebrates the Graduating Classes of its 2017 Peer Supported Startup Program in Mississauga

The Toronto Star

Goar: Micro-loans Unlock Trap of Mental Illness

Goar: Microfinance Program Combats Stigma of Mental Illness

The Globe and Mail

Klein: To drive social change, we must unshackle philanthropic capital

Grant: Microloans for Mental Health Patients Rolling out across Ontario

Mcilroy: Starting a Company with Mental Illness

Huffington Post

Dhami: Microfinance & Mental Health : A Rotman/CAMH Financial Initiative Supporting Entrepreneurs In Canada

MacLeans

Senger: Loans for entrepreneurs - with mental health issues

The Economist:

J.L.H.D: Micro-lending to the more unlikely

The Ottawa Business Journal

Kane Van Ee: Non-profit lender helps disadvantaged ‘rise’ to entrepreneurship challenges

The Toronto Business Journal

The Ottawa Citizen

Aaron L. Pope: Micro-loan program helps to launch gluten-free bakery

London Community

Sean Meyer: Rise London to bring forward the virtue of risk to entrepreneurs

Western News

Communications Staff: Rise London: A path to self-employment

Paul Mayne: Western, London ‘Rise’ up for economic opportunity

Metro News

Mark Spowart: London’s entrepreneurs can Rise to the challenge

BNN

Amber Kanwar: Watch Rise on BNN with Howard Green on Bell Let’s Talk Day 2013

Narinder Dhami, Executive Director of Rise Asset Development, appeared on segments in February 2012 and February 2013 to discuss entrepreneurship & mental health

Rogers Cable Toronto: Daytime (Community Morning Show)

Narinder Dhami appeared on a segment discussing Rise Asset Development and microfinance in 2012

CBC

CBC News (Ottawa – March 21^st 2013); Sandra Rotman and Rise Ottawa Client, Naomi Muise

Articles have also appeared through community media channels: Socialfinance.ca, SeeChange, Yonge Street Media, and SNAP