Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 1 or more students.

The primary focus for the students will be: The student or team will assist in the launch to market of Carpe Diem’s online Mortgage and Home Ownership Primer course and the introduction of our Live to OwnTM program for home ownership.

The student team will have a primary area of focus: Establish and manage the on and off-line channels for promoting public awareness of the online Mortgage and Home Ownership Primer course and the Live to OwnTM program, and the opportunity it provides for affordable home ownership in Canada’s expensive major metropolitan markets.

Our goal at the end of this experience is:

We are ready to undertake our distribution strategy, with a focus on university campus’ and access to our target clientele – highly educated and career oriented adults who will find that home ownership may actually be closer to reality for them than they may have thought. Our distribution plan seeks to offer our online course to students, and to introduce the Live to OwnTM program to them and their families, as well as to employers. A student rep or team on each campus will coordinate the social media and other promotional efforts to gain attention to the program, and then coordinate a series of webinars that introduce both the online mortgage course and the Live to OwnTM program. Successful execution of the distribution plan is intended to generate both part-time and full-time positions with our company, serving demand in the real estate catchment area of each campus.

The candidate(s) would have to have a good fundamental grasp of financing, and specifically of mortgages and real estate. All meetings are anticipated to be held by virtual means through Zoom or similar applications. Our company founder is Pat Frewer, who can be reached to discuss this proposal at 604-618-3116 and pfrewer@carpediemsuites.com, and on the Riipen platform at: https://riipen.com/.

By the end of this project, we will be ready to show funders the results of steps taken to launch the Deposit LoanTM program and the financial literacy online course, the budgets for our ongoing development, launch and operation of Live to OwnTM, and the team we have identified and/or assembled to execute the distribution plan.

Other duties the students may complete could include: In keeping with the above goal, the student team will cover these duties:

• Become familiar with Carpe Diem’s brand DNA – our target clientele, our Mission, Vision, and Values, our concept for inter-generational housing environments with intentional community, and our vision for the Live to OwnTM program and the online financial literacy course;

We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern team using these communication tools: We plan to use, in this order of importance and regularity:

• Daily or weekly team video calls

• Group and individual email, as appropriate and efficient

• Riipen messaging wherever possible – ie: for the email channels

• Team document creation, editing, storage, and access – using Riipen, Google Docs, or Microsoft Teams

Student's primary contact: Pat Frewer, company founder and president

Secondary contact: Leah Albrecht, Pat’s Executive Assistant