Maple Leaf Angels is Ontario’s largest and most active angel investor group. Since its founding in 2007, Maple Leaf Angels has invested $6m in start-ups. Maple Leaf Angels is made of about 40 accredited high net worth individuals, business leaders and entrepreneurs mostly from...

ArtReach Toronto is an innovative youth focused and youth driven program with a mandate to support arts initiatives that engage youth who have experienced exclusion in under-served areas of Toronto. With strong financial support from all three levels of government, funding organizations...

Saeed Selvam and Valerie Fernandes are the inspired leaders behind Change12 – an entirely youth led organization dedicated to realizing youth focused social change. Change12 was born in 2007 from Saeed’s vision of starting an organization that would bring about youth led change...

I am pleased to announce that I have been invited to present a workshop on developing funding strategies for technology projects for the My Charity Connects Conference taking place on June 8 and 9 2009 at Mars Discovery District in Toronto. My Charity Connects is a conference put...

Non-profit organizations stand to gain significantly by accepting donations through their website; however the fact is that most NPOs’ websites do not handle online donations. According to a Kintera/Luth Nonprofit Trend Report, 1 “65 percent of donors visit at least one of the...

Entrepreneurial dreams of taking an idea from a recipe book to the super market shelves can be realized by using the Toronto Food Business Incubator. (TFBI) Business Incubators are programs that help grow early stage, yet commercially promising ideas through a support program. Business...

Canada’s Youth will be contributing citizens who are confident and rich in character; they will be unlimited in their capabilities and achieve empowering careers. This is the vision that I presented at the Ontario Public Service 2007 Spirit Program launch. I was asked by both the...