Greg O’Donnell

Plant Your Flag Commercial Real Estate Services in Ottawa recently launched a program for young entrepreneurs, giving them a chance to meet and talk with successful entrepreneurs and business people.

“We ask people to place their card in a hat at various events that we have partnered with. We pick five names and match those mentees with the five mentors we have arranged for the event,” says Plant Your Flag broker of record Greg O’Donnell. “The parties agree to meet for a coffee and the mentee agrees to make a donation in the name of the mentor’s favourite charity. We designed this to be very simple and informal, and in place of an expensive lunch or dinner the funds go to a local charity.”

O’Donnell says events like this are rare in the commercial real estate world, “but as we are aligned with small- and medium-enterprise and people that have something to prove, we thought this might be a good way for our firm to give back.”