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We work with investors to hold Canadian publicly-traded companies accountable to their net zero promises.

We represent investors or take financial positions in select Canadian companies ourselves. We do a deep dive analysis of their net zero plans.

We engage those companies and other investors to improve accountability, including filing shareholder resolutions where appropriate.

We believe that a just transition to the net zero economy can unlock shareholder value while giving our kids a better future.

World Animal Protection

World Animal Protection is the global voice for animal welfare, with more than 70 years’ experience working to protect animals from cruelty through practical, sustainable and science-based solutions that help people and animals alike.

We have offices in 12 countries and collaborate with local communities, the private sector, civil society and governments across 47 countries.

We have General Consultative Status with the UN and are members of Canada’s National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC).

We address the two biggest causes of animal suffering today – industrial farming and the wildlife trade. Our goals are to give wildlife the right to a wild life and to build a sustainable, equitable and humane food system. Our work to protect animals will play a vital role in solving the climate emergency and public health crises.

Trinity Centres Foundation

The Trinity Centres Foundation is a new Canadian charity; its aim is to see 100 historic church buildings converted into community hubs for the charitable and community sectors.

Our model is to partner with the owners of historic church buildings to provide project development and building management which retains ongoing worship space usage on Sundays. Various government and charitable partners are then invited to be part of a new “community hub” concept, attractive to new categories of impact lending. Heritage buildings will first be made safe and usable and later sensitively developed to a modern, world-class standard also suitable for conference, event, concert and wedding activities that will lead to local centres becoming financially self-sustainable.

The Foundation’s Board of Advisors is a team of 50 professionals from across the social innovation, urban planning, property, finance, management, accounting, legal, government and faith sectors.

Simon Fraser University

As Canada’s engaged university, SFU works with communities, organizations and partners to create, share and embrace knowledge that improves life and generates real change. We deliver a world-class education with lifelong value that shapes change-makers, visionaries and problem-solvers. We connect research and innovation to entrepreneurship and industry to deliver sustainable, relevant solutions to today’s problems. With campuses in British Columbia’s three largest cities—Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey—SFU has eight faculties that deliver 193 undergraduate degree programs and 127 graduate degree programs to more than 37,000 students. The university now boasts more than 165,000 alumni residing in 143 countries.

MaRS

MaRS is North America’s largest urban innovation hub. A registered non-profit, MaRS supports high-growth startups and scale-ups tackling key issues in health, cleantech, fintech and other sectors. In addition, MaRS convenes all members of the tech ecosystem to drive breakthrough discoveries, grow the economy and make an impact by solving real problems for real people — in Canada and around the world.

Beedie School of Business

Since the creation of Canada’s first Executive MBA in 1968, the Beedie School of Business has championed lifelong learning, productive change and the need to be innovative as we deliver research and teaching that makes an impact. We are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and have received the EQUIS Quality award from the European Federation for Management Development (EFMD). AACSB and EFMD are globally recognized accrediting agencies for business schools. Less than 1% of business schools worldwide have earned both of these accreditations.

Undergraduate, graduate and PhD programs demonstrate a spirit of innovation, flexibility and relevance. Supported by extensive partnerships with public, private and not-for-profit organizations, our goal is to produce broadly educated, enterprising and socially responsible managers capable of making lasting contributions to their communities.

The Beedie School of Business operates on all three SFU campuses, with:

  • 3,800+ undergraduate (BBA students) in Burnaby and Surrey
  • 700+ MBA and graduate students at the Segal Graduate School and at the Surrey Campus
  • Non-credit programs at the director, executive and management-levels
  • A thriving PhD program

Catherine Donnelly Foundation

The Catherine Donnelly Foundation is committed to promoting positive social change by funding and financing initiatives related to the environment, housing and homelessness as well as adult education. Our efforts are intended to promote joint action and networking by helping organizations work together and build on one another’s strengths to pursue radical systems change.

ONE Investment

ONE Investment is a not-for-profit organization focused on providing investment options that support the needs of Ontario’s municipalities.

ONE aims to be the leader in best practices for municipal investment. Our purpose as a not-for-profit is to offer enhanced investment services and to expand municipal capacity for long-term investing and asset management planning. This includes education and training for municipalities with respect to linking investments to funding asset management plans.

ONE was first offered as a program in 1993 by Local Authority Services (LAS), the business services arm of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO), and CHUMS Financing Corp., a subsidiary of the Municipal Finance Officers’ Association of Ontario (MFOA).