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EMPOWERING LOCAL WOMEN TO REACH FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE

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The annual 2025 Ball

October 16, 2025 | Windsor Station

The annual Lise Watier Foundation Ball returns for an exceptional 12ᵉ edition, in the prestigious setting of Windsor Station. For one evening, let yourself be transported into a captivating atmosphere, where golden sparkles, fiery reflections, and play of lights will illuminate this grand celebration of the strength, resilience, and ambition of the women we support.

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The 2025 Cocktail

April 10, 2025 was the 4th edition of the Lise Watier Foundation Cocktail. Under the honorary co-presidency of Lucia Dzoara Mendoza (BMO), Julien Jauffret, Tristan Rocheleau (National Bank Financial_Team Guy Côté), the new generation of philanthropists gathered at New City Gas to support the financial independence of local women.

A helping hand for women

As an organization working for financial independence for women, the role of the Lise Watier Foundation is to offer women resources, training, support, and access to a network to enable them to develop their self-confidence and their full professional potential.

Our intervention pillars

Encourage
Unlocking the professional potential of women by strengthening their confidence in their abilities to build a solid foundation for a fulfilling professional life.
Train
Giving women the support, knowledge, and tools they need to acquire and strengthen the knowledge and skills necessary to achieve their professional goals.
Support
Cultivating achievements by valuing collaboration, continuous education, and professional development.

OUR IMPACT

Programs that change lives

1380

women supported towards financial independence.

6

regions served
(Montreal, Quebec City, Laurentians, Montérégie, Sherbrooke, and Toronto).

171

businesses launched or propelled.

59

women have received or are receiving financial aid to pursue post-secondary education.

33 %

are in a better
financial situation after just one year.

MARIE-ÈVE

Graduate of the Entrepreneurship Program

The Lise Watier Foundation offers the Let’s Start Up Pathway in Montreal, Quebec City, the Laurentians, Montérégie, Sherbrooke and Toronto. More than 300 women a year are committed to taking action through the Let’s Start Up Pathway. They graduate with a better understanding of their strengths and skills, as well as the knowledge and tools to implement their professional project. Women thus begin a new journey towards financial independence through entrepreneurship, a return to school or a more fulfilling job.

Major donors

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