{"id":58608,"date":"2024-07-05T09:51:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T16:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penderfund.com\/?post_type=community&#038;p=58608"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T22:04:27","slug":"pender-ja-students-win-provincial-award","status":"publish","type":"community","link":"https:\/\/penderfund.com\/fr\/community\/pender-ja-students-win-provincial-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Pender JA Students Win Provincial Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Throughout an intensive 18-week period, Pender hosted a cohort of students in the Junior Achievement British Columbia (JABC) Company Program. With the support of Pender staff, including Founder and Chairman, Kelly Edmison, 14 students created their own company, organized their leadership, designed and developed a product, and determined a marketing strategy to sell it\u2014all with their own capital and operating at a profit. This initiative aligns perfectly with Pender\u2019s strong entrepreneurial spirit, as Pender was founded by a small team of venture capitalists passionate about investing. Today, Pender has evolved into a multi-asset investment firm overseeing $3 billion in AUM.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-69097 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/penderfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/JABC-Award.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/penderfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/JABC-Award.jpg 950w, https:\/\/penderfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/JABC-Award-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/penderfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/JABC-Award-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/penderfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/JABC-Award-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Building on this legacy of innovation and success, Pender\u2019s student cohort has been awarded the provincial Celebrate Entrepreneurship Award, which recognizes the JA Student Company that has demonstrated the most innovation in their business and includes a $3,000 prize that can be used towards the students\u2019 post-secondary education. Examples of innovation include creating a new product, distributing the product or service in a completely new way, marketing using cutting-edge tools and media, or employing a business model rarely seen in today's business world. Despite tough competition and with only single digits separating the companies in the selection criteria, the students' outstanding creativity, marketing, and sales results ultimately stood above the crowd.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We are proud of our cohort of students and look forward to continuing to achieve great things with our entrepreneurial students!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":69097,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"fund-type":[],"class_list":["post-58608","community","type-community","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pender JA Students Win Provincial Award - PenderFund Capital Management<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/penderfund.com\/fr\/community\/pender-ja-students-win-provincial-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_CA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pender JA Students Win Provincial Award\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Throughout an intensive 18-week period, Pender hosted a cohort of students in the Junior Achievement British Columbia (JABC) Company Program. 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