Press Room

OCISO Media contact

Joycelyn Glover
Phone: 613-725-5671 ext. 334
Fax: 613-725-9054
E-mail: OCISO Media Contact

What's New

Awards Gala Dinner : March 11, 2010

Click here to download the invitation.

Call for Nominations : OCISO Community Awards of Excellence

Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization is calling for nominations for the 2010 OCISO Community Awards of Excellence (OCAE). The goal of the OCAE is to recognize and honour community members, groups and organizations for making outstanding contributions to enable immigrants and their families to fully participate in an open and welcoming Ottawa. OCISO recognizes the need to raise public awareness about the contributions made for and by immigrants and refugees in their communities. We continue to engage the larger public to change the dominant narrative of immigrants in our community and to highlight their gifts, knowledge and skills that contribute to the social vibrancy and overall wellbeing our city. As a result, we created the OCAE as a vehicle to positively and publicly recognize and celebrate the achievements of these champions in the Ottawa community.

Click here to download the nomination package.

The Marion Dewar Scholarship Fund

For more information about the scholarship, download the information package.

Click here to download the application form.

TechReuse Computer sale

From time to time, OCISO partners with TechReuse/ CompuCorps in a computer distribution to bridge the digital divide and enable community members to access technology to help them integrate into the Canadian society and to pursue their career opportunities. Email jglover@ociso.org to reserve a desktop or for more information.

Availability: Refurbished Pentium 3 desktops and laptops (first come first serve).
Distribution date: Please call to reserve and pick up till quantities last
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: 945 Wellington Street West
Contact: Joycelyn Glover, Fundraising and Communications Coordinator.
Phone: 613-725-5671 ext. 334
E-mail: jglover@ociso.org

Click here to download the order form.

Help a child succeed!

Imagine if hundreds of people in Ottawa bought tickets for a fancy $40-per-plate fundraising dinner, but the event never happened . . .

Imagine instead, if all of those people stayed home and sent their money directly to support OCISO’s Multicultural Liaison Offi cer (MLO) Program in Ottawa schools – so that immigrant and refugee children and youth learn English, French, math, computers and leadership and recreational skills during the summer.