The future of Filipino entrepreneurship in Canada
Pwrforward is a non-profit incubator building an ecosystem for Filipino-Canadian founders and professionals. We turn skills into businesses and ideas into impact.
The future of Filipino entrepreneurship in Canada
Pwrforward is a non-profit incubator building an ecosystem for Filipino-Canadian founders and professionals. We turn skills into businesses and ideas into impact.
OUR GOAL
$10M
Invested into Filipino-Canadian founders and businesses by 2030.
Our community has the talent, drive, and ambition. What we're missing is the capital and the ecosystem to back it.
The gap is real.
And it's growing.
Filipino-Canadians are among the most educated and hardworking people in this country, but data proves we are still being left behind.
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We work hard
-25.9%
While Filipino-Canadians have the highest employment rate of any group in Canada, we still have the largest wage gap of any racialized group at -25.9%.
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But we earn less
33.4%
Filipino-Canadians with a university degree earn 33.4% less than non-racialized peers with the same education.
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And it's getting worse📉
Low wages and employment precarity are pushing Filipino-Canadians toward entrepreneurship just to survive.
Low wages and employment precarity are pushing our community toward entrepreneurship. But the wealth gap makes building that business nearly impossible. Filipino-Canadians are building with no tools. No loan fund. No capital investments. No resources.
Let's rewrite
the script
We're building the ecosystem that will redefine (and scale) Filipino ambition in Canada. Thank you for supporting our mission to bridge the gap between access and community wealth.
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