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Best Buddies Canada
Best Buddies is a national charity that is dedicated to fostering friendships between people with intellectual disabilities and university, college and high school students. Friendship is one of the most important elements of life. For people with intellectual disabilities, strong friendships can positively enhance the quality of their lives and can help to ease isolation and loneliness. The Best Buddies program gives people with intellectual disabilities the chance to have experiences that most people take for granted: going for coffee, seeing a movie or simply enjoying the company of a good friend. Friendships help to break down the barriers to inclusion and provide opportunities for shared positive experiences, laughter and support. There are over 150 Best Buddies chapters in Canada, involving 3,500 participants and 18,000 alumni.
Website: www.bestbuddies.ca
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Pathways to Education Canada
Pathways to Education Canada is a charitable organization created to reduce poverty and its effects by lowering the high school dropout rate and increasing access to post-secondary education among disadvantaged youth in Canada. The Pathways to Education Program is a proven effective model, first created and implemented in 2001 in Regent Park by the Regent Park Community Health Centre. Since the inception of the program, the dropout rate in Regent Park has plummeted from 56% to 10%, and post-secondary enrolment has increased from 20% to 80%. As a result of its ground-breaking achievements, Pathways to Education Canada has expanded with local partners to five additional locations in Canada. The Pathways to Education Program provides four key supports to ensure that young people will successfully complete high school, continue on to post-secondary programs and become actively involved in their career development.
Website: www.pathwaystoeducation.ca
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POGO
The Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO) has been collaborating for children with cancer and their families since 1983. POGO ensures that children with cancer in Ontario are given equal access to state-of-the-art cancer care. Through strong partnerships with Ontario's Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, and the childhood cancer community across the Province, POGO has built a reputation for recommendations based on solid provincial data, scientific evidence and extensive clinical experience. Thanks to POGO, care for Ontario's children with cancer has been integrated into an exemplary, province-wide system that strives to provide patients with the greatest prospects for survival and an optimal quality of life.
Website: www.pogo.ca
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Right to Play
Right To Play is an organization dedicated to fostering peace for children and communities affected by war, poverty and disease. Right To Play focuses on four strategic program areas: basic education and child development, health promotion and disease prevention, conflict resolution and peace education and community development and participation. Working in both the humanitarian and development contexts, Right To Play has projects in more than 20 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. These projects use specially-designed sport and play programs to help improve health and build life skills. Right To Play is recognized as a global-scale implementer of Sport for Development and Peace programs and takes an active role in driving research and policy development and in supporting children’s rights.
Website: www.righttoplay.com
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Special Olympics Canada (SOC)
Special Olympics Canada (SOC) is dedicated to enriching the lives of Canadians with an intellectual disability through sport. As part of a world-wide organization for the past 30 years, SOC provides sport training and competition opportunities for 31,000 athletes of all ages and abilities across the country. In 2007, we continued our three-year commitment to Special Olympics by sponsoring the annual Sports Celebrities Dinner Gala.
Website: www.specialolympics.ca
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Wonderball at Harbourfront Centre
For the second consecutive year, we are delighted to support Wonderball at Harbourfront Centre. A super-charged family day event, proceeds from Wonderball ensure that Harbourfront Centre’s new generation of family programming, HarbourKids, inspires imagination, understanding, creativity, expression and discovery. It also supports the important work of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada in their efforts to continue to match Bigs and Littles and Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada where the proceeds help provide safe and enriching after school programmes.
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