Market-Ready Project (MRP)

Are you an immigrant entrepreneur with a small-scale enterprise who would like a chance to grow your
business and test local markets?

ISANS’ Market-Ready Project is a new initiative to help immigrant entrepreneurs like you showcase and test your products at local marketplaces in small centers across rural Nova Scotia.

With the help of partners in rural areas, the Market-Ready Project will offer you important training and help you access local marketplaces (such as farmers’, craft, or other small-scale markets) to test and sell
your products or services!

As a participant of the Market-Ready Project, you will receive:

• 35 hours of focused, in-class and/or online business training
• Foundational health and safety training as it applies to your business
• An opportunity to showcase and sell your products at local markets, at no or minimal cost
• Ongoing, one-on-one business counselling with ISANS Business Counsellors
• Free promotion on ISANS Business Hub and social media

To join the Market-Ready Project (by registrations only), you must:

• Be an immigrant who is at least 19 years old (including: international students, closed and open
  work permit holders, permanent residents, and citizens)
• Live in a rural area of Nova Scotia
• Have a Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) level of 5 or higher
• Be an ISANS client

Tuesdays, August 27th – October 29th
6:00 pm – 9:30 pm