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AUCTION 2025 | Over 100 exceptional items to bid on. Learn more 

EMPOWERING LOCAL WOMEN TO REACH FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE

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SILENT AUCTION 2025

Participate in our silent online auction and discover over 100 exceptional items now!

From artwork by artists like Bob Hendriks, to a VIP suite for a Montreal Canadiens game, exceptional getaways, shows, specialized beauty treatments, unforgettable culinary experiences, fine jewelry, and designer fashion from boutiques such as Maison Marie Saint Pierre… there’s something to delight your loved ones or simply to treat yourself!

The auction closes on October 16 at 10 p.m.

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2024-2025 ANNUAL REPORT

Discover a year marked by inspiring accomplishments, fruitful partnerships, and an ever-growing impact on the women we support. This report showcases the strength of our mission: to encourage, train, and support local women towards financial independence and professional fulfillment.

Thank you to everyone who makes this transformation possible, day after day.

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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

1477

women supported towards financial independence.

7

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

212

businesses launched or propelled.

70

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

35 %

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, Drummondville and Toronto. More than 350 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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