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Jean-François Archambault

La Tablée des Chefs

Jean-François is combating hunger and introducing healthy eating through substantially modifying the food consumption chain. He is identifying and empowering the most critical key players, chefs, to become leaders in food redistribution and in educating children and youth in healthy cooking. As a result huge quantities of previously wasted food are now distributed efficiently to underserved populations. Moreover, Jean-François is modifying the educational system to empower youth to adopt healthy and affordable food preparation habits. Within the next five years, he plans to have expanded his work to other major Canadian cities through partnerships with culinary schools and provincial ministries of education. (view detailed profile)

Manon Barbeau

Wakiponi Mobile

Manon is restoring the Canadian Aboriginal communities’ deeply damaged social structures by empowering young people to connect and dialogue with their own community as well as indigenous groups globally through a professional film-making process. The film production process and the follow-up through public screenings are allowing the establishment of a powerful intergenerational dialogue, between aboriginal as well as non-aboriginal communities. Revealing old wounds, Manon’s initiative is paving the road for real recovery. She is strengthening native populations’ self-esteem, giving them a voice and educating national and international audiences about the youth’s concerns. By creating an international network to cope with historic adversity, Manon is bringing about systemic change. (view detailed profile)

Geoff Cape, Senior Fellow

Evergreen/Brick Works

Geoff Cape is leading the movement on sustainable cities to redesign urban spaces that integrate public learning spaces for children in cooperation with the natural environment.(view detailed profile)

Lucie Chagnon

Commodus

Lucie Chagnon is harmonizing employee-employer relationships through the first online open market for the provision of life-work balance services. This system of services that she has created helps employers become more sensitive to critical employee issues like health problems, reduced quality time with family and less productivity at work. (view detailed profile)

Jessica Clogg

West Coast Environmental Law

Jessica Clogg is introducing a new approach to environmental law that empowers indigenous peoples to use their own legal traditions to ultimately to transform Canadian law. (view detailed profile)

Ilona Dougherty

Apathy is Boring

Ilona is fostering civic participation among apathetic youth by enhancing their democratic literacy. To do so she has created a multi-layered strategy using popular music concerts, workshops and a youth-oriented online platform to cultivate volunteerism and increase democratic involvement. She also builds bridges between the members of parliament and political candidates and youth, opening opportunities for direct dialogue. (view detailed profile)

Al Etmanski

Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN)

Al Etmanski and his team sought to establish more effective pathways of inclusion for peoples living with disabilities socially and for true citizenship. (view detailed profile or view blog)

Mary Gordon

Roots of Empathy

Leading the fight to reduce child aggression through emotional literacy development, Mary Gordon has revolutionized empathy in the classroom. (view detailed profile)

Gilles Julien

Social Pediatrics

Dr. Gilles Julien has redesigned the profession of the pediatrician by transforming today's healthcare system into one committed to prevention and community. (view detailed profile)

Marc Kielburger

Volunteer Now!

Helping youth grow into powerful forces of social change on a local, national and international level is what Marc Kielburger is all about. (view detailed profile)

Johann Olav Koss

Right to Play

Through "Right To Play," an athlete-driven international organization, Johann Olav Koss is working with children, youth and adult coaches in some of the most difficult circumstances in the world, such as refugee camps. His programs aim at bringing about behavioral changes and enhancing children’s holistic development through the medium of sport and other games. Having expanded his programs to 23 countries, Johann is now leveraging his experience and organizational capacity by working with the UN to include sports in the Millennium Development Goals, and by helping national governments include sport in their social development policies. (view detailed profile)

John Mighton

Junior Undiscovered Mathematical Prodigies (JUMP)

John Mighton invented a methodology to improve mathematics teaching in hopes of creating a positive change in the attitudes of students towards learning and their overall potential in life. (view detailed profile)

Donna Morton

The Centre for Integral Economics

Donna Morton is using tax shifting as one of many techniques that aim to align social and environmental needs with the market drivers and a range of economic incentives. (view detailed profile)

Peter Nares, Senior Fellow

Social and Enterprise Development Innovation

To combat poverty, Peter Nares stimulated new forms of community practice and public policy for the poor in the mainstream economy with the introduction of social investors and entrepreneurs. (view detailed profile)

Daphne Nederhorst

Sawa Global

Daphne identifies local change makers (called "Sawa Heroes"), who have found their own innovative solutions to eradicating poverty in their communities. To bring attention to the Heroes and help spread and replicate their success locally, she connects these visionaries to a global network of partners, virtually, by working with local videographers and media groups. Daphne is providing a new approach to foreign aid strategies, as well as educating local and international populations, by promoting the work of local role models encouraging locally empowered media and the use of new media tools. Until now, Daphne has worked with 25 communities in 16 countries. Through this work and its network effect, she aims to eradicate extreme poverty for 1 billion people in the world's poorest countries. (view detailed profile)

Dr. Arnold Noyek, Senior Fellow

CISEPO

By creating collaborative exchange and continuing education programs for medical students, health professionals and health centres from Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Canada, Arnold Noyek is creating a model of cooperation in the Middle East which is improving the professional capacity of these practitioners and medical care in these regions. As a result, he is creating cross-cultural dialogue, understanding and peaceful co-existence across religious, cultural and political borders. (view detailed profile)

Aaron Pereira

Vartana

Aaron Periera helped to meet the financial needs of the social sector in Canada by increasing the amount of capital resources available to them. (view detailed profile)

Sidney Ribaux

Equiterre

Sidney Ribaux is leading the movement of model societies where consumer actors are both socially and environmentally responsible. (view detailed profile)

John Richardson

Pivot Legal Society

Following the model Mahatma Gandhi's campaigns, John Richardson has systematically challenged the attitudes and insitutions of power that enable marginalization. (view detailed profile)

Stanley Zlotkin

Through a combination of clinical research and advocacy, Stan Zlotkin has developed an inexpensive way of treating the world's "hidden hunger" problem. (view detailed profile)