Elevate is a social business builder that brings entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. Elevate builds, invests start-up capital into, and manages local agribusinesses that work with smallholder farmers and fishers. 

For farmers and farming communities, Elevate improves livelihoods by boosting agricultural productivity, creating job opportunities, and cementing long-term market linkages so they can lift themselves out of poverty. Elevate currently manages agribusinesses in Colombia, El Salvador, and Haiti, with plans to replicate the model across Latin America and the Caribbean. Across its agribusinesses, Elevate has impacted more than 13,600 farmers and farm workers and generated more than $38m in farmer income.

Based in Victoria and Vancouver, Power To Be works to remove cognitive, physical and social barriers to the outdoors, supporting participants to explore who they are and what they are capable of. Power To Be believes physical activity and time outdoors is paramount to health and happiness, and that no one should be excluded from nature, recreation or community.

Quiet Cove Foundation supports Power To Be’s Vancouver based adaptive programs, which provide opportunities for more than 400 children, youth and families to explore nature in and around Greater Vancouver. These ability-centered programs are led by Power To Be staff and allow people living with barriers to explore their limitless abilities in a truly inclusive environment.

The Boys Club Network (BCN) tackles one of contemporary Canada’s most misunderstood and undersupported social issues – that of young men aged 12-18 seeking connection with positive male role models.  BCN identifies and lifts these lost boys up, and with a proven curricula of Hope, Opportunity, Positive Mentorship and Education, restores their personal accountability; and their confidence in themselves, in adults, and in society’s collective future. 

BCN is a privately-funded registered Canadian charity founded and administered by accredited educators, operating throughout BC, and supported by a Network of +250 mentors from all walks of life.  All BCN programs — after school clubs, and a Ministry of Education approved in-class curriculum course — are based on the foundational principles of mentorship and connection, as tools for teaching, healing and prevention.

BabyGoRound supports families in need across the Lower Mainland by providing resources and essential baby gear so they can safely care for their children, and are equipped and empowered to thrive.

The East End Boys Club works with marginalized youth between the ages of 13 – 25 with a goal to not only provide life-skills training but to also provide socio-emotional support, in school and post-secondary guidance and the opportunities to pursue higher education in both academic and trades skills training.

Hockey Helps the Homeless leverages Canada’s affinity for hockey to raise awareness and financial support for the homeless through education, fundraising, and by partnering with solutions-based local homeless support agencies.

For 45+ years, Coast Mental Health has empowered people living with mental illness by providing three essential pillars of recovery: Housing, Support Services, Employment & Education.

The Forum is a Canadian-based charity that energizes, educates, mentors, and connects self-identified women entrepreneurs to be wildly successful, promoting strengthened economies and thriving communities. To help women entrepreneurs access the resources & community they need to thrive in business.