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For the last decade, Welch LLP has been a loyal partner of the Telfer School, with representation on the Dean’s Advisory Board, hiring coop students, interns and alumni, and supporting a number of initiatives on and off campus.
Welch has extended their financial support with a commitment worth $57,500 over the next five years. They will continue supporting the Welch LLP Accounting Scholarship, which recognizes an accounting student who is actively involved in the campus community. In addition they will sponsor five events, including the annual Top of the Tower Alumni reception in Toronto that is so instrumental to us in helping us connect alumni to each other in our largest market outside Ottawa and the Telfer Donor and Scholarship Reception that celebrates achievement and introduces scholarship recipients to those who fund their awards.
The other activities they sponsor help Telfer offer the best possible student experience: the Entrepreneurs Club’s annual Toast to Success Business Dinner; the Telfer Academic Excellence Breakfast and the Telfer Internal Case Competition, a new interdisciplinary case competition which is open to all students but is aimed at engaging first- and second-year students.
Read more about Engagement with donors in the Dean’s annual report.
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We are proud to announce that the Logan Katz LLP accounting firm has renewed its loyal support to the Telfer School of Management with $100,000 to fund student activities and to help recruit and retain top accounting professors.
The funds will be invested equally between a student activity fund and the Logan Katz LLP Accounting Fellowship. Startup Garage, a 3-month program led by the University of Ottawa to foster and support youth entrepreneurship, was the first activity to receive funding.
The fellowship will be awarded to a professor in recognition of their commitment and dedication to the accounting profession, their excellence in teaching and their mentorship of students towards a career in accounting.
"I would like to extend my thanks on behalf of the Telfer School community to Logan Katz LLP for their renewed financial commitment”, stated Dean François Julien. "Logan Katz has been one of our best corporate partners for many years: hiring coop students and young alumni into permanent positions, supporting students and campus activities including the Logan Katz LLP Accounting Scholarship and the CASCO gala."
Two of the firm’s partners, David Logan (BCom 1980) and Denis Chainé (BCom 1989), are alumni of the Telfer School and have been involved for many years in various initiatives, such as the Executive Mentorship Program and the accounting capstone course competition.
"We are announcing this contribution to the university because it represents an investment, not only in the future of students, but in our society's collective future as a whole. It is where our future leaders are developing, and we feel a need to pitch in to ensure each one of these future leaders is positioned to seize every opportunity presented to them” stated David Logan and Denis Chainé. “The University of Ottawa Telfer School of Management, in our view, provides an ideal stage to allow for this."
Logan Katz LLP is one of many organisations who continue to stay connected with and give back to the Telfer School of Management to support the programs and projects that matter most to them, and to help the Telfer School achieve its goals.
Across a diverse range of projects and programs, the top priorities of the Telfer School’s fundraising campaign are to transform how we learn; invest in globalization; generate new knowledge; foster experiential learning; support scholarships and fund emerging strategic priorities.
About Logan Katz LLP
Logan Katz LLP was formed in 1994 and operates from premises in the Southwest area of Ottawa. While many of the clients operate internationally and the firm has a significant number of clients who are subsidiaries of foreign companies, the essence of the practice lies with small to medium size local family businesses. https://logankatz.com/
Photo Caption: Dean François Julien, Denis Chainé, partner, Logan Katz LLP, and Nolan Beanlands Coordinator, Startup Garage
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The 26th annual Business Dinner ‘Toast to Success’, organized by the Entrepreneur’s Club (TECDE), is one of the most awaited events of the year. Bringing together Telfer faculty, professionals and sponsors with students at the Museum of Canadian History, this year’s dinner welcomed a total of 242 attendees, making it the best attended event to date.
During the event, a silent auction took place with various items donated by the local community in which the proceeds went to the Cam’s Kids Foundation, an organization dedicated to providing young people that suffer from anxiety, along with the Rwanda Craft Brewery Project, which helps the Rwanda community become better established.
As dinner rolled around, attendees had the pleasure of listening to a very special keynote speaker for this year, Steve Beauchesne, CEO of the very successful craft brewery Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company. During a very competitive time in the beer industry, Beau’s continues to be the top player in the market. Steve shared his story on the philosophy of starting a business but also, the secret to making great beer. To celebrate International Gruit Day coinciding with the Business Dinner, Beau’s provided attendees with 4 different samples of beer.
New for this year, TECDE incorporated the winners from the Elevator Pitch competition back in November, showing the Telfer community the incredible talent that comes out of uOttawa’s Telfer School of Management. A portion of the evening was also dedicated to award two hard working executive members on the TECDE team with the Carpe Diem Award and the Kevin Vollett Entrepreneurial Award.
This year marked a new milestone for both TECDE and Telfer, as a joint collaboration was announced to kick start a fundraising campaign for the Kevin Vollett award, created to honour Kevin, a Telfer student and TECDE executive member who passed away from a tragic accident. With the 25th anniversary of the award coming up in 2018, TECDE and Harry Mortimer, a Telfer alumni and dear friend to Kevin, have come together to raise $9,000 before the 27th annual Business Dinner in order to sustain the financing of the award. Help them reach their goal by donating now. For more information on this fundraising campaign, click here.
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We have received a generous donation from the funds raised in the 6th Annual National Bank One for Youth Bicycle Tour. The donation which was presented by the National Bank on July 8, 2016, will help fund the Entrepreneurs’ Club Elevator Pitch Competition.
The annual Elevator Pitch Competition showcases some of the University of Ottawa’s top talent. As a part of Global Entrepreneurship week, this competition allows young entrepreneurs to present their business ideas that are still in the early stages of development to a panel of judges and Rise to the Top. The winners are awarded with a generous cash prize that they can put towards furthering their business idea. The evening also includes a catered networking portion as well as a keynote speaker that shares their personal successes and struggles as an entrepreneur. This year we plan on making the competition the most competitive to date.
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