Telus
TELUS is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $10.9 billion of annual revenue and more than 13.1 million customer connections, including 7.7 million wireless subscribers, 3.4 million wireline network access lines, 1.4 million Internet subscribers and 678,000 TELUS TV customers. TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services, including wireless, data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, television, entertainment and video.
Change Heroes
We believe that there’s a hero inside each of us waiting to change the world. And all we need is the right opportunity.
Change Heroes is a new fundraising platform that makes it easy for anyone to raise thousands of dollars for the causes they believe in. All a person needs is a list of friends and family, access to a computer with internet connection and a webcam, and 3 hours to set up their campaign.
http://www.thechangeheroes.com/
Fluevog Shoes
Shoes to vie for, shoes to die for, Go on, buy one, buy two, buy four! Cool shoes, cool boots, drool shoes, fool boots, Men’s shoes, Women’s shoes, zen shoes, swimmin’ shoes, Sexy shoes, flexy shoes, shoe spray to protec’ ze shoes, Funky shoes, funky boots, spunky shoes for hunky fruits, Platform shoes to tower above ‘em, platform boots (we know you love ‘em), Crazy boots, crazy shoes, blacks, reds, greens, blues, Women’s boots and men’s boots, too and, babe, those sexy boots are YOU!
Hailing from Vancouver, BC, John Fluevog has been making eco-friendly shoes since 1970.
www.fluevog.com
Imagine1day
We’re a non-profit organization committed to the next generation of leaders who will carry Ethiopia into a new era of prosperity. We fund holistic education projects with a goal to ensure: All Ethiopians have access to quality education funded free of foreign aid by 2030.
Our unique fundraising is called Creatribution (hard to say, easy to do). Through Creatribution, you can connect your passions and talents to develop your contribution to imagine1day. Become a Creatributor and support a global shift in the currency of giving.
www.imagine1day.org
Lunapads
Lunapads International is a women-owned and operated social mission-based business based in Vancouver, Canada. Our goal is to help individuals have healthier and more positive experiences of their menstrual cycles, and by extension, their bodies overall. Lunapads’ mission is to create more positive and informed relationships between menstruators, their bodies and the Earth. We embrace a global perspective, in terms of wellbeing and empowerment for women and girls, as well as toward our responsibility with respect to sustainability.
www.lunapads.com
Mark Brand, Inc.
Mark Brand’s life as an entrepreneur began in the summer of 2007 with the opening of his first venture, Boneta Restaurant, at 1 West Cordova. Over the course of the next 3 years, the inaugural Vancouver ‘Bartender of the Year’ would establish several other popular local businesses, including Sharks + Hammers, The Diamond, and Seamonstr Sushi. But all of these projects proved mere training grounds, when in July 2010 Mark signed his life away and assumed control of the historic Save On Meats Butcher Shop / Grocery & Seafood. Working in close collaboration with various community programs and initiatives, Mark and his team are harnessing compassion in their pursuit of new approaches to tackle important societal issues like barrier employment and food security straight from the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side.
Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation
The Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation is a non-profit organization that raises funds to support innovative health care at the Dr. Peter Centre in Metro Vancouver. The Dr. Peter Centre is British Columbia’s only HIV/AIDS Day Health Program and 24-hour nursing care Residence.
The only program of its kind in Canada, the Dr. Peter Centre is a leader in HIV/AIDS care, particularly for individuals with multiple medical conditions and social barriers.
www.drpeter.org
RIK
Highly sought after as an inspirational brand builder and storyteller, Rik Writes has been providing engaging content and memorable concepts for an international client base for over 15 years. During that time he helped bring dignity to Canada’s poorest postal code, elevated the plight of homelessness to a world stage, created a local garden and sold a lot of beer.
Room to Read
We envision a world in which all children can pursue a quality education, reach their full potential and contribute to their community and the world.
To achieve this goal, we focus on two areas where we believe we can have the greatest impact: literacy and gender equality in education. We work in collaboration with communities and local governments across Asia and Africa to develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children, and support girls to complete secondary school with the life skills they’ll need to succeed in school and beyond.
http://www.roomtoread.org/
SOCCKET + Uncharted Play
Uncharted Play is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to improving lives through play. Our flagship product is the SOCCKET, an energy harnessing soccer ball.
The SOCCKET is a portable generator in the form of a size 5 soccer ball. Its internal mechanism takes the kinetic energy from rolling and converts and stores it as electrical energy. After the game is finished, the included single bulb LED lamp can be plugged into the ball to provide hours of light from just minutes of play.
http://us.soccket.org/
Vancouver Street Soccer League
The Vancouver Street Soccer League is composed of men and women who are homeless, have recently been homeless or who are at risk for homelessness.
Everyone is welcome to play regardless of skill level. The league’s focus is having a great time while at the same time building skills, fitness, teamwork, communication and confidence among players. Ultimately both VSSL players and organizers have been successful in creating a closely knit and highly supportive community.
The league has roughly a dozen teams based in Metro Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna and Courtney. Since it was founded in 2009, the VSSL has sent teams and players to represent Canada and compete in Homeless World Cups held in Brazil, France and Mexico.
