Hi, my name is Sunshine, and I’m looking for assistance to cover my tuition deposit. Each and every donation and all forms of support are gratefully appreciated. Feel free to share this link. May God Bless each and everyone of you who comes across this page. MY STORY When I was 14, my friends and I had ideas to create our sneaker review YouTube channel. This idea evolved into what is now known as the Toronto-based clothing brand, CONNECT Collective. Throughout high school and to what’s now nine years later, I’ve been able to collaborate and explore locally with various artists, friends, and family, bringing others together as a start to my career in my hometown's music and media industry. After leaving a semester at York University’s Business Studies program, which didn’t align with CONNECT’s business direction, then attending Humber College during the COVID-19 global pandemic. The circumstances severely tarnished my mental and financial well-being, as well as my grades as I found it difficult to maintain a part-time job and live alone as my own sole provider at 19. Throughout 2018 to 2024, my various experiences doing freelance expanded to various opportunities where I would find myself sharing gigs with other emerging artists and creatives. This was the start of founding my media production company, OTR Media Productions, also known as OTR, and OTR Everything. Now, at 23, I continue to work at my part-time job and maintain various positions that contribute to my career. As a small business owner in the creative field, currently building a pathway to a sustainable full-time media production company, I uphold strong values in sharing resources and opportunities through my commitment to developing youth and community on a local and global scale. I believe that the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management Diploma Program at the York Entrepreneurship Development Institute will be able to give me the professional mentorship I need in taking the next steps to grow the businesses I've created and be able to apply and share knowledge that will be utilized in my ventures and by extension my community. Currently, OTR and CONNECT have been set aside to sustained my job security and personal commitments such as providing for myself and a family member (whom I cannot officially claim as my dependent). I’m in a position where going back to a traditional full-time program is difficult as I am not comfortable leaving my job to solely be dependent on student assistance to cover our living expenses. I am seeking a full-time position that is better aligned in creative, community, and youth environments that match my current salary and benefits to further invest in my career. Alternative financial options, such as taking a personal loan would put me in a difficult situation due to my current financial standings. Since York Entrepreneurial Development Institute is a private college, it is currently not an eligible school under the Ontario Student Assistance Program (student grants and loans). The Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management Diploma Program is a part-time program, allowing me to continue working. I have developed various creative solutions to cover my tuition costs and other related expenses such as maintaining this website. I am committed to completing my first post-secondary diploma and sustaining a 95% average. COST BREAKDOWN Tuition Deposit: $3,000.00 CAD Required to enroll in the program As a Canadian student, I will be eligible for a scholarship to cover my tuition fee of $8,000.00 CAD. In order to receive said scholarship, I must maintain an 80% or higher average. Upon graduation, I will be reimbursed for the $ 3,000.00 CAD deposit. Reimbursement & Resources The reimbursement will go directly to purchasing a new laptop. As standard in the creative field, and in my current experience using an Asus Zenbook 14" UX463FA (8GB RAM, Intel® UHD Graphics 620, Display: FHD (1920 x 1080) 16:9 aspect ratio, IPS-level Panel, LED Backlit, 60Hz refresh rate, 300nits, 100% sRGB color gamut, Glossy display). This laptop cannot currently run Adobe Creative Suite Programs at an effective rate (often lags and crashes the program. It sometimes crashes while editing my website as well (Squarespace). I have been eyeing the MacBook Pro 14” (Apple M2 Pro with 10‑core CPU, 16‑core GPU and 16‑core Neural Engine, 16GB unified memory, Liquid Retina XDR display). The capabilities to run design programs and the display for editing and running programs in my field. If I am to accumulate beyond my goal, they will continue to be tracked into a budget to sustain the following: my website/portfolio (www.sunshvne.com), the website for OTR and CONNECT Collective, including domain renewal fees, insurance, and hosting fees, business licenses, applicable trademarks and expenses to maintaining business status in Canada, and any other costs and/or expenses in relation to growing, and sustaining my businesses. WEBSITE & LINKS My website and portfolio: https://www.sunshvne.com/ For more ways to support: https://www.sunshvne.com/tuition Daily updates: https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTc1NzAwMTkxNDA3NzEz?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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