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$1 million donation from the National Bank to the Fondation Montréal inc. fund-raising campaign

Published: 18 November 2014

Creation of a business idea competition on Montreal university campuses, launched as part of "je vois mtl" (I see Montreal).

Fondation Montréal inc. enthusiastically announces one of the largest donations in its history, a major gift of $1 million from the National Bank. This contribution will enable Fondation Montréal inc., to create a competition for business ideas on the campuses of Montreal universities.

... About the "Your ideas are good business" contestThe ideas competition will be launched on university campuses in February 2015 and seeks to identify individuals among the student population and graduates aged between 18 and 35 who have good business ideas in order to invite them to express them in a short 3-minute videos. This initiative is based on a novel form of collaboration between Centech, the UQAM ESG Centre for Entrepreneurship, the Poly-UdeM Centre for Entrepreneurship, Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship - McGill University, District 3 - Concordia University, the National Bank | HEC Institute for Entrepreneurship and the Fondation Montréal inc. business network of 300 volunteers.

Read full article: TD Waterhouse, November 17, 2014

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