2020 Impact Report
Driving Impact During Extraordinary Times
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
2020 Highlights 4 A Message From Our Chair
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Our Approach Drives Results
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Up With Women 10 Teach For Canada
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Rumie 14 SNAP 16 Supporting Our Community
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In 2020 Healthy Futures:
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Our Newest Accelerator Pecaut Fellows
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Our Sector Partners
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Our Team
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Board of Directors &
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Advisory Council Investment Committee 32 Thank You To Our Donors
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Made $323M in economic impact
Mobilized more than $600,000 of emergency COVID-19 funding for our ventures
Reached 750,000+ Canadians
Launched our Healthy Futures accelerator, welcoming a new cohort of 11 social ventures into our portfolio
Extended our reach to every province and territory in Canada
Enabled 3 ventures scale towards 10x growth
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Led 13 new critical projects to support ventures in response to the pandemic
Held 13 community virtual meetings and expert talks to enable peer-to-peer crisis management sharing
Increased our ability to work with a broader range of socially minded organizations 5
During these uncertain times, there has never been a greater need to “do good, better.” The COVID-19 pandemic has created a complex landscape that challenges our ventures, and amplifies the importance of our work at LEAP. Along with our partners, we are facing these circumstances head on. The LEAP community — donors, sector partners, team members and volunteers — has worked together to help steer our ventures through this volatile time. We take great pride that our approach to scaling and supporting the most impactful social ventures is working; despite the obstacles our ventures faced this year, many reached new milestones and even surpassed their impact targets. Now, more than ever, we at LEAP continue to focus on creating a healthier future for all Canadians. In October, we welcomed the newest cohort to our portfolio, almost doubling the number of high-impact ventures that we partner with. Our second accelerator, Healthy Futures, will scale 11 high-potential social ventures focused on preventing the unhealthy behaviours contributing to chronic diseases affecting 6
Canadians, a concerning trend that has been magnified during the pandemic. Together, we have found resilience in times of crisis. This year we delivered more economic impact than any year previously, an achievement that would not have been possible without the strength of our partnerships. Thank you for your incredible support as we strive to enable every Canadian to have the opportunity to reach their full potential; impacting more than one million lives annually in partnership with our social ventures. Together, we are driving impact during extraordinary times.
Joan Dea Chair of the Board, LEAP | Pecaut Centre for Social Impact
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...AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO SHARE OUR LEARNINGS
While supporting our portfolio of ventures during the pandemic, we garnered several key insights, which we will share broadly as we partner to create better lives for all Canadians. Turn Challenges into Opportunities With creative thinking, adaptations made to address a crisis can lead to a more profound rethinking of business models. Focus on Impact Long-term sustainability will result from tough shortterm decisions. The focus of scarce resources on immediate needs must be balanced with longerterm continuity plans. Listen, Observe, Adapt Organizations that listen to and identify the changing needs of their beneficiaries can adapt quickly, with minimal disruption to services, and maximum reach to clients. Partner and Collaborate With resources and capacity stretched during
OUR APPROACH DRIVES RESULTS...
the pandemic, multi-sectoral partnerships and community engagement are vital to share learnings and embrace connections. Develop and Strengthen Governance and Leadership
We conduct a deep dive to define the most
The best not-for-profit leaders exemplify creativity,
pressing social issues. To deliver significant social
courage and compassion during a crisis. Good
impact, we lead targeted initiatives to scale a
leadership across the entire organization is essential
cohort of ventures.
to enabling critical pivots during extraordinary times.
Select
Invest
Impact
We employ a robust, objective
Through partnership, we
We help each venture to grow
and data-driven due diligence
provide in-depth strategic and
its impact with beneficiaries and
approach to select exceptional
operational support, coaching
communities by a factor between
social entrepreneurs leading
and capacity building to
4x and 10x.
high-impact social ventures.
accelerate and scale impactful ventures in Canada.
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Up With Women provides at-risk women with a unique, in-depth and intensive program of career coaching, group support sessions, emotional assessment tools, and soft skills development to support their clients in building sustainable, prosperous careers and businesses to become fully financially independent. Joining LEAP’s portfolio in November 2019, Up With Women began its partnership with the co-creation of a five-year strategic growth plan, focused on the development of a strong technology platform,
“Not a day goes by where I don't thank our lucky stars for LEAP. And what a great time to enter into a partnership together. I can't think of anyone I'd rather be navigating a crisis with. You guys are like our bionic family!” -Lia Grimanis, CEO, Up With Women
marketing and branding strategy, and leadership
Impact
~3x
increase in number of women served over the last year
capacity building. This strategy established the groundwork for Up With Women to maximize its reach and impact and ultimately help more women escape poverty. The COVID-19 crisis introduced several hurdles for Up With Women including a surge in demand for its services and the urgent need to shift its in-person coaching model to a virtual delivery model. To help mitigate these challenges, LEAP expedited several projects in collaboration with our partners to help Up With Women build its organizational resilience to navigate the pandemic and focus on its plans to scale. During the pandemic, Up With Women has increased its services to those in need, launching its largest cohort and tripling the number of vulnerable women served annually.
“I heard about Up With Women at an event for single moms. Since I started working with my coach, she has been like my compass, especially during the pandemic. She’s helping me reach my dream of turning my passion for art into my own business. I’m excited for what the future will bring!” -Ana, Up With Women client
40%
year-over-year growth in fundraising
$15,000
average incremental increase in income for program graduates
38%
clients who terminate social assistance within 6-12 months 10
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Teach For Canada works with northern First Nations to recruit, prepare and support committed teachers; tackling the difficult twin challenges of teacher supply and systemic inequalities that produce a statistical education gap between First Nations and non-First Nations students. In 2020, LEAP worked with Teach For Canada to implement a five-year strategic plan to grow its impact in First Nations. A principal area of focus
“LEAP has brought strategic insight and extra capacity to the work we have done to scale our programming. They have connected us to critical expertise to help build our platforms in IT and human resources.”
was making its Summer Enrichment Program more impactful. This program brings teachers together
“Teach For Canada has looked out for my best interests as a teacher and the team has done their very best to ensure that teaching in a First Nation community would be a positive and fulfilling experience.” – Primary Teacher, Big Grassy River First Nation
with Indigenous leaders and education experts to prepare them to support student success in northern First Nations in Ontario and Manitoba. This year was the first school year that Teach For Canada has placed teachers in northern First Nations in Manitoba. In response to the massive disruption brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, Teach For Canada and LEAP developed a virtual iteration of this enrichment program and redoubled the focus on strengthening teacher retention rates by analyzing the impact of teacher training, support and counselling. These efforts resulted in actionable recommendations to grow teacher retention. To date, despite the enormous challenges imposed by the pandemic,
-Sara-Christine Gemson, VP of Programs, Teach For Canada
Teach For Canada has surpassed its target of recruited teachers.
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First Nations partners, up from 18 last year, expanding to northern First Nations communities in Manitoba 12
2,400
First Nations youth and children reached in 20202021, vs 2000 last year
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educators who participated in the program, vs 84 last year
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Impact The Rumie Initiative (Rumie) works with the world’s most influential organizations to create, organize and distribute free micro-learning courses on 21stcentury life and career skills, designed to meet the needs of the economically-displaced, smartphonefirst modern learner. LEAP has partnered with Rumie since 2016 and has provided key supports to pave
100,000 60%
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learners reached through Rumie Bytes
countries in which Rumie operates
adolescents who face barriers to learning
the way for Rumie’s growth. In 2020, Rumie launched a major upgrade to its free learning technology to deliver content through micro-learning principles, where one can learn through short snippets (called “Bytes”) that lower
“LEAP helped us to expand our connections and break down barriers to education through technology. This allows us to reach more learners with a groundbreaking solution that is fun and easy, at this time of great need.”
the barriers to learning by making it fun, easy and quick, and reflecting the way that people learn through technology today— spending more time on smartphones and with a much shorter attention span. Rumie also enhanced the usability of its platform for its subject matter expert partners to create Bytes on a rapid-authoring platform without the need for content curation by an intermediary. Rumie’s enhanced platform for online volunteers drove growth during the COVID-19 crisis; online volunteerism, already integral to Rumie’s approach pre-COVID-19, has been an ideal way for companies’ employees to contribute their expertise and
-Tariq Fancy, Founder and Executive Director The Rumie Initiative
volunteer virtually during these uncertain times – a win-win that boosts employee morale in the process. This year, Rumie has expanded its distribution
“We immediately knew Rumie was what we were looking for. We believe we found a shortcut, an innovative way to tackle problems our community schools face.”
partnerships to reach more learners and has continued to break down the barriers to learning for underserved communities. In 2020 Rumie has reached 100,000 users in more than 30 countries, and has ambitious goals to scale to 10 million learners by 2025. In Canada, Rumie partners with organizations that support Canadian youth, Indigenous communities, refugees and new immigrants.
— Pashtana Durrani, Founder of LEARN Afghanistan 14
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Impact
“I am so thankful for my child’s involvement in the SNAP program, particularly during the pandemic. There has been so much change to manage and SNAP has really helped my child to manage their emotions during a really Stop Now And Plan (SNAP®) is an evidence-based,
tough time.”
trauma-informed model that teaches children aged 6-11 with disruptive behaviours and their families
LEAP | Pecaut Centre for Social Impact has partnered with SNAP since 2013, during which time SNAP has expanded its reach from approximately 800 young people to 5,000 at-risk youth annually, through 92 affiliate sites nationwide. In 2020, LEAP and SNAP co-created a road map to long-term sustainability, identifying optimal pricing strategies and new markets and product lines to expand SNAP’s impact. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, LEAP provided guidance and mentoring as SNAP
new affiliate sites added by SNAP in 2020
92 SNAP Canadian Affiliate Sites
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how to make better choices in the moment and throughout their lives.
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“Now more than ever, given the impact of the pandemic, the mental health needs and well-being of our children, youth and families need to be front and centre. LEAP is working with us to ensure that happens; we are forever grateful.”
5,000 children served annually by SNAP programs, an increase of 500 in 2020
3x funds raised vs last year
expedited key emergency initiatives, including shifting its focus to delivering its programming virtually to at-risk children amidst lockdown
-Leena Augimeri, PhD, Director, SNAP® Scientific and Program Development & Centre for Children
measures, while accounting for privacy concerns.
Committing Offences Child Development
Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic,
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SNAP tripled its fundraising goal for 2020 and successfully served more at-risk youth than ever before; adding 10 affiliate sites.
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SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITY IN 2020 COVID-19 In response to the pandemic, LEAP strengthened supports for our portfolio community to increase resilience, deepen collaboration and share learnings.
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LEAP staff collaborated one-on-one with venture leaders to develop and implement strategies for their specific organizations during this challenging time. BCG summer students were staffed full time with select organizations to provide strategic support on time-sensitive initiatives.
Diversity & Inclusion
Through these conversations, LEAP identified topics for a recurring series of Community Calls: LEAP’s sector partners and leaders in the social sector led workshops to share evolving practices across a variety of topics, ranging from technology for collaboration to change management and fundraising during a crisis. Our workshop leaders and LEAP staff regularly supplemented the workshops with online materials, resources, and tools to extend the knowledge sharing for our ventures.
At LEAP, we understand that philanthropy alone does not create a change in power structure. To that end, we remain committed to fostering an organizational culture where every voice is welcome, heard and respected. As we continue to scale diverse social organizations that reflect the cultural needs of communities, we are also looking within, to prioritize diversity and inclusion across our organization. We look forward to building on this work as we look ahead to 2021. 19
HEALTHY FUTURES: OUR NEWEST ACCELERATOR
The Need for Action report, authored by LEAP in a research partnership with BCG, details the serious implications of the rise of chronic diseases in Canada and identifies three preventative health interventions within the Canadian healthcare landscape that have the greatest potential to create
In May 2020, with financial contribution from the Public Health Agency of Canada, LEAP launched Healthy Futures, our second accelerator program, which supports innovative social ventures that help to prevent the unhealthy behaviours contributing to chronic diseases affecting Canadians. More than 150 high-calibre applicants responded to our call for action. Over the course of four months, through a rigorous, data-driven assessment, LEAP staff, board, investment committee and a panel of experts identified each venture’s potential for impact. The outcome was the selection of 11 diverse ventures that will drive meaningful change in public health in Canada. We have ambitious goals for the Healthy Futures Accelerator. Currently, the 11 ventures combined serve 599,167 Canadians annually across all provinces and territories. With LEAP’s in-depth strategic and operational support, coaching and capacity building, the cohort will scale its impact to improve the lives of 2M+ Canadians annually. 20
meaningful change. Amongst its findings: • Chronic diseases are on the rise in Canada — increasing at a rate of 14% per year — and have an estimated annual economic burden of $190 billion. • Large numbers of Canadians are engaging in harmful habits: more than 40% of Canadians fail to meet physical activity guidelines, more than 70% do not consume adequate fruit and vegetable servings and 16% continue to smoke. • There are deep inequities in healthy behaviours among vulnerable demographics that the current healthcare infrastructure does not address. • In order to tackle these serious health issues, we must focus on the social determinants of health through socioecological models and community-driven solutions. • The greatest opportunities for impact are personalized interventions that target lower-income households and Indigenous populations for physical activity, smoking cessation and food insecurity. • The current COVID-19 pandemic magnifies the urgency of finding solutions that reach remote, vulnerable and underserved segments of the Canadian population.
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HEALTHY FUTURES
Black Health Alliance works to improve the health and wellbeing of Black communities in Canada through systems innovation, health promotion, research and public policy, championing health equity, and serving as a platform for convening and collaboration. Support from LEAP will allow Black Health Alliance to launch THRIVE, a strategic, scalable and results-based initiative aiming to improve health and well-being outcomes in Black
“Based on our experience through the selection process, we are confident that our impact will grow with the guidance and support we will receive from LEAP over the next 5 years. We are looking forward to collaborating with LEAP to support even more healthy kids in healthy schools.” -Marisa Orfei, Acting Executive Director, Apple Schools
communities. THRIVE will address four key elements: social determinants of health, chronic disease and mental health, antiBlack racism, and building connected communities.
Challenger Baseball is an adaptive baseball program led by Jays Care Foundation for individuals living with disabilities. Challenger Baseball has been created specifically to positively change the trajectory of this population’s health by building physically and emotionally safe communities, promoting life skill development and directly combatting high rates of sedentariness to reduce associated health risks. Together with LEAP, Jays Care Foundation will identify new pathways to scale Challenger Baseball to meet its goal of reaching 30,000 athletes annually in five years, from 8,500 today.
APPLE Schools is an innovative school-focused health promotion initiative. It enhances the lives of 21,000 students in 75 schools annually by improving their healthy eating, physical activity, and mental health habits.
providing healthy and affordable food to as many Canadians
APPLE Schools’ approach reduces chronic disease later in life by
as possible — especially those who need it most. Fresh Routes’
increasing students’ daily physical activity and intake of fruits
Mobile Grocery Stores bring healthy, fresh, and affordable food
and vegetables. Its model has been proven effective through
into neighbourhoods facing barriers — allowing choice,
20+ research studies over 10 years in partnership with University
maintaining dignity, and building community.
of Alberta School of Public Health.
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Fresh Routes is focused on creating new, innovative ways of
Today Fresh Routes operates out of Alberta, serving 2,000
As our scaling venture, APPLE Schools will extend its reach to
Canadians every month. Partnership with LEAP will enable its
200 schools and 62,000 students over the next five years with
expansion over the next five years, growing the number of routes
support from LEAP.
and extending its reach into Manitoba.
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Green Iglu strengthens food security across Canada by
MyHeart Counts Canada is an AI-driven mobile application
equipping communities with greenhouse infrastructure. Green
in development, which will provide real-time feedback and
Iglu’s integrated, community-focused approach promotes food
support to individuals that improve physical activity, using
sovereignty across Canada through educational programming
behavioural strategies based on unique needs. Housed within
that enables remote communities to grow nutritious food.
McGill University Health Centre, The MyHeart Counts Canada
LEAP will support Green Iglu’s scaling plans to deepen its impact and broaden its reach across more communities in Canada.
app is based on the MyHeart Counts US app, a successful venture first launched by Stanford University that uses behavioural nudges and incentivization to improve physical activity. LEAP’s support will allow MyHeart Counts Canada to bring emerging technology to marginalized populations and reach
iamYiam is an award-winning preventive health partner which empowers people and organizations to take charge of their health. Combining big health data, AI, genetics and extensive
100,000 Canadians. User-consented data from the app will also inform a national study on cardiovascular health to evaluate optimal physical intervention strategies.
academic research, iamYiam delivers the world’s first personalised health plan for individuals through the platform’s curated products and recommendations, and provides organizations with population analytics to better allocate resources. iamYiam currently serves 100,000+ users in 26 countries. Through its partnership with LEAP, iamYiam will establish a Foundation in Canada to reach marginalized population groups.
Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program is a relationship-based, mentor-led healthy living afterschool program delivered by Indigenous adolescents for children in their community. The program is community-led and is co-developed with Indigenous Elders, youth, educators, and researchers. Grounded theoretically in the teachings of Indigenous scholars, the program promotes well-being, resiliency, and overall positive mental health. Through its partnership with LEAP, Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program will enhance the breadth of its programming in the existing 50 communities where it currently operates, and expand
“We are thrilled to have been selected for Healthy Futures. We feel this opportunity will allow the IYMP team to reach even more Indigenous children, youth, families, and communities. We are very much looking forward to working with LEAP, and grateful to be part of the LEAP community.”
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The Smoking Treatment Optimization Program (STOP) provides quit smoking treatment to 24,000 people each year across Ontario. STOP uses data-driven approaches and a software application to treat patients directly or through partnerships with community healthcare organizations. STOP is housed in CAMH, a leading research hospital for addictions and mental health. STOP has an ambitious goal to grow nationally and expand its reach from 270,000 people treated so far to 2 million Canadians who smoke, and in partnership with LEAP will identify a sustainable growth model to achieve these goals.
“This is a critical time in Second Harvest’s history, and we are grateful for the chance to work with such a dedicated group to support our growth and future vision. We are eager and excited to get started!”
Youth4Change is a proposed advocacy and education initiative conducted through a partnership between The Lung Association of Saskatchewan, the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations and The Students Commission of Canada. Though a multipronged approach that includes education, prevention, and cessation initiatives, the project will target youth and young adults to reduce smoking rates within First Nations communities.
-Lori Nikkel, CEO, Second Harvest
Strategic guidance and funding from LEAP will allow Youth4Change to define and develop tools to support programming in 74 Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan. Second Harvest is Canada’s largest food rescue charity with a dual mission of hunger relief and environmental protection. It recovers nutritious, perishable surplus food from more than 2,000 donors and redistributes it to a broad network of 2,300+ social service organizations across Canada. This free, essential service helps nourish people through school programs, seniors’ centres, shelters, food banks, and regional food hubs. With support from LEAP, Second Harvest will expand its webbased application to improve efficiencies, develop a national infrastructure program to reach more rural communities, and renovate a new facility to support the volume of food rescued.
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PECAUT FELLOWS
OUR SECTOR PARTNERS LEAP | Pecaut Centre for Social Impact was founded
We are tremendously grateful for our corporate sector partners; business leaders in their respective industries who contribute their invaluable expertise pro bono to build the capacity of our ventures and ourselves. We are thankful to be able to highlight some of our collaborative work in 2020:
to honour the legacy of David Pecaut (1955-2009), a visionary civic leader, city builder and former head of BCG Canada. Building on his legacy, LEAP has designed The Pecaut Fellowship program to coach the next generation of Davids — future leaders who will forge cross-sector alliances to address social issues. Through a combination of immersive work and professional development, the fellowship provides talented young professionals with the opportunity to
BCG, a leading global
EY is a global professional
McCarthy Tétrault LLP, a leading
tackle challenging social issues.
management consulting firm
services organization that
Canadian law firm, held a series
whose Canadian practice serves
provides assurance, tax,
of timely workshops for our
a broad mix of top-tier clients,
consulting, transaction and
ventures on legal issues including
contributed its expertise in
strategy services. EY guided
HR policies and cybersecurity.
strategy and capacity building
SNAP through its technology
Émilie Legrand has volunteered with refugees in
to co-create Up With Women’s
challenges as it shifted its model
Greece and with nonprofits in Montreal to support
growth strategy, defining a
to an online format.
newcomers to Canada.
blueprint to scale its impact over
In 2020 LEAP welcomed its largest cohort of Pecaut Fellows, who bring their passion for social change to our team:
“I have been fortunate to work with the selected Healthy Futures ventures to co-develop strategic growth plans that will enable their visions of creating a healthier future for vulnerable communities across Canada. I have learned so much from the LEAP team, from navigating complex strategic growth questions to effective project management, that will be immensely valuable throughout my career.”
Selina Phan is passionate about urban economic development, food security, and the intersection
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women escape poverty.
of private and public spheres to create meaningful change. Rachel Ross has a deep passion for sustainability and is part of the 2020 cohort of circular economy pioneers at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Leah Stemeroff worked in Zambia for 3 years, helping to scale a clean energy social enterprise focused on off-grid solar solutions for rural farming households.
Hill+Knowlton Strategies, one
Offord Group, a Marts & Lundy
Google.org, who brings the
Patrick Tammer has volunteered at Business in
of Canada’s leading public
firm, based in Toronto with a
best of Google to innovative
Streets, where he provided business coaching
relations and public affairs firms,
team of senior philanthropic
nonprofits, provided branding
to young entrepreneurs from less privileged
was instrumental in making the
consultants, co-created and
and marketing support to several
backgrounds.
Healthy Futures public call for
implemented with LEAP a crisis
ventures to enable them to bring
applications a success.
fundraising plan for Up With
attention to their critical work
Women and supported Teach For
during this difficult time.
Zeynep Yildirimhas piloted her own education program for top high schoolers to get a head start in
–Leah Stemeroff
the next five years to help more
their careers and develop 21st century skills.
Canada’s fundraising strategy.
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OUR TEAM
Our small but mighty team works together to strategize, coach and catalyze long-term impact to transform communities. We are privileged
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to be supported by a large community of dedicated volunteers and interns.
Staff:
Interns:
JOAN DEA
GORDON BAIRD
KILIAN BERZ
HELEN BURSTYN
Chair of the Board Founder, Beckwith Investments
Appointed Secretary Partner, McCarthy Tétrault
Co-Founder & Board Member Senior Partner & Managing Director, BCG
Co-Founder & Board Member Chair, Evergreen
NAN DASGUPTA
ASHIM KHEMANI
JOE MANGET
PHILIP MOORE
Board Member Senior Partner & Managing Director, BCG
Board Member President, STEM Capital
Co-Founder & Board Member CEO & Chairman, Edgewood Health Network Inc.
Board Member Former SVP, Deputy General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, TD
BCG Summer Associates: Katie Yao, Celena Gong, and Eden Ovadia Communications Intern: Sophie Armstrong Lindsay Birbrager
Sabrina Ladha
Portfolio Associate
Portfolio Director
Humber Fundraising Program Intern: Yallenni Ilamvaluthy Ivey Connects Community Intern: Avery Pasternak Loran Scholars: Katherine Gotovsky and
Cheryl Gordon Director of Operations
Nick Murray Ankita Rao Portfolio Manager
Mitacs Business Strategy Intern: Matthias Jang
ADVISORY COUNCIL PHILIP MOORE
CLIFF GREVLER
MARTIN REGG COHN
Advisory Council Chair
Senior Partner & Managing Director,
Political Columnist, Toronto Star
Former SVP, Deputy General Counsel
BCG
& Corporate Secretary, TD
MARC GILBERT
Ontario Regional Managing Partner,
NINA ABDELMESSIH
Senior Partner & Managing Director,
McCarthy Tétrault
Chief of Operations & External
BCG
Relations, BCG Canada
Managing Director, Offord Group
Senior VP, H+K Strategies
Senior Consultant & Principal, Marts
Partner, McCarthy Tétrault
SAM DUBOC Chair & CEO, MindBeacon Group
Kevin Yu
Partnership Director
Portfolio Analyst
DAMIAN ELEFTHERIOU Partner, EY Canada
MICHAEL GARDINER Chairman, Fairwater Capital Corporation 30
ALISON HOLT
SARAH ANDREWES JOHN P. BROWN
Susan Hallsworth
GODYNE SIBAY
& Lundy
SHANNON K. MONK CEO, Sakatay Global
NICHOLAS OFFORD President & Founder, Offord Group Senior Consultant & Principal, Marts
VINAY SHANDAL Partner & Managing Director, BCG
ANDREW STEELE VP & Group Head, StrategyCorp
GARRICK TIPLADY Managing Director, Facebook & Instagram Canada
BILL YOUNG President, Social Capital Partners
& Lundy
ERIC RAWLINSON Managing Partner, CFO, EY 31
INVESTMENT COMMITTEE
LEAP’s Investment Committee, a group of senior leaders and experts from our private sector partners, added rigour and expertise during LEAP’s in-depth selection process of our Healthy Futures ventures.
OUR DONORS
THANK YOU to our 2020 community of donors who believe in doing good, better. You are truly driving impact during extraordinary times.
BRAD BAKER
The Young Fund through the Hamilton Community Foundation
Partner & Managing Director, BCG KATE BANTING
Sonor Foundation
Joan Dea & Lionel Conacher
Head of Social Impact & Marketing for Canada, BCG SARAH BURNS Global HR Director, BCG GAMMA, BCG
Mike and Martha Pedersen
Nan DasGupta & Michael Bernstein
Helen Burstyn
Joe Manget & Christina Mauro-Manget
DAMIAN ELEFTHERIOU Partner, EY Canada ASHLEY FRASER Program Manager, Google Cloud Health & Life Sciences, Google
Katharine Lake Berz & Kilian Berz
Gordon Baird & Maia MacNiven
Alison Holt & Innes van Nostrand
Philip Moore
Dan Pecaut
Toronto Foundation
JAKE IRWIN Partner, McCarthy Tétrault AVON MACFARLANE Vice-President, Offord Group and Senior
Ashim & Alka Khemani
Consultant, Marts & Lundy DEVON MACMURRAY
Ann Armstrong
Sophie Armstrong
Lindsay Birbrager
Narinder Dhami
Ashelyn Fung
Cheryl Gordon
Susan Hallsworth
Margaret Hayes
Lucille Joseph
Sabrina Ladha
Timothy Lowman
Avery Pasternak
Kevin Yu
Senior Associate, Mergers & Acquisitions, EY Canada JULIE PARLA Partner, McCarthy Tétrault VIVEK PRABHU Account Director, Hill+Knowlton Strategies ROHIT PURI Partner & Telecommunications Industry Leader, EY Canada
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THANK YOU to Adam
THANK YOU to Mary Jane
THANK YOU to our volunteer
Gordon for his strategy and
Braide, Strategist and Brand
event committee for their insight
engagement as LEAP Healthy
Coach for her pro bono
and experience: Lisa Dinnick;
Futures champion with BCG,
brand strategy support, and
Carolyn Fitzgerald; Carole Ann
and Zayna Khayat as an
Alison Holt for her expertise
Hamilton; Jacklyn Lewis; Heather
advisor to the board during the
in strategic philanthropy with
Ritzer; Laura Schlee
selection process.
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