Dexterity Ventures Inc. (DVI) creates technology solutions and tools to help organizations incorporate giving and social good into their products or online presence. It also powers Canada’s first philanthropic brokerage firm, the Place2Give Foundation and...
When we think of young people, a few words come to mind. Idealistic and naïve? Perhaps, but also driven and purposeful. Increasingly, says Amanda Minuk, what many want from work is “the purpose and a paycheque.” As a graduate of the MBA program at University of...
It is a warm evening, early in the summer, and the Shopify offices are packed for the Toronto+Acumen event. Clean and modern, their aesthetic is matched by the young professionals who have flocked here, dressed to impress. While we sit, pecking at the bison meat and...
Toronto, Canada has a growing populous rich in culture and opportunity. Much like any other city, people from all walks of life seek accommodations within its many diverse neighbourhoods. But as the downtown core and surrounding municipalities expand in size –...
The evening I watched a performance by Edu-Clowns for the first time, I was in a foul mood. I had spent the day summarizing a rather tragic story of a Tuberculosis patient afflicted with an extensively drug resistant strain of the disease. I had been working for an...
