Tagged: charity

Gift the Code - winning team

Capital One’s Gift the Code hackathon helps close technology gap for charities

Brian Jackson

Published: November 19th, 2018

Amazon makes $525,000 donation to Canada Learning Code

Amazon.com Inc. has announced it will be donating $525,000 to Canada Learning Code to help improve and develop digital literacy programs across Canada. In a Tuesday press release, the ecommerce and cloud services giant

Published on: August 1st, 2018 Meagan Simpson

Half of Canadian charities can’t keep up with digital transformation, Capital One finds

Fifty per cent of Canadian charities “aren’t able to keep up” with the pace of technological change, according to a recent Capital One survey, but leaders in the industry say it’s up to

Published on: June 28th, 2018 ITBusiness Staff

New app makes it easier for Canadians to make charitable donations from their smartphones

A new app is looking to make donations to a cause or charity easy by allowing Canadians to donate spare change directly from their smartphones. Canadian fintech app, Mylo Financial Technologies Inc., which

Published on: May 14th, 2018 Alex Coop
Suzanne Grant - CEO of iBionics

The Business Leadership Podcast: Suzanne Grant, CEO at iBionics

I am excited to share the conversation I had with Suzanne Grant. Suzanne’s experience is characterized by breadth and depth leading in technology, military, non-profit, health and creative fields. She has won awards

Published on: June 13th, 2017 Edwin Frondozo

Connected North helps take Indigenous education into 21st century

When Cisco Systems Inc. began the Connected North program three years ago with the vision of connecting every indigenous school in Canada to an HD video telepresence network, you might call it an

Published on: May 5th, 2017 Brian Jackson

Charity turns Salesforce1 app into ‘Furniture Bank’ for the needy

When Furniture Bank executive director Dan Kershaw says he didn't expect to win a 2016 Ingenious Award from the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC), it's easy to believe him - after all,

Published on: November 16th, 2016 Eric Emin Wood

Google plans to split $5M among Canada’s 10 most innovative non-profits

TORONTO – Google Inc. wants to make 10 Canadian non-profit organizations very happy. On Friday the company revealed it was bringing philanthropic arm Google.org’s Impact Challenge to Canada for the first time. “Google’s

Published on: October 29th, 2016 Eric Emin Wood

Embracing Salesforce helped Toronto’s Furniture Bank support nearly 80% more people in only 2 years

Organizing one move is difficult enough. Now imagine organizing 25. Every day. That's essentially the challenge faced by Furniture Bank, a Toronto-based organization with a unique, but crucial niche in the city's charitable

Published on: September 26th, 2016 Eric Emin Wood

Help Fort McMurray wildfire victims by donating your old tech gear

It's been two months since 88,000 residents of Fort McMurray, Alta. faced a mandatory evacuation as wildfires threatened to burn through the city. It precipitated the largest aid response to a disaster in

Published on: June 30th, 2016 ITBusiness Staff

Charities can use their success to market themselves with CanadaHelps’ new tool

For years, administration costs have served as a key measure that Canadians use to evaluate the charities they contribute to, but a new offering by Toronto-based online donation platform developer CanadaHelps aims to

Published on: June 19th, 2016 Eric Emin Wood

What to do with your old server hardware

Come July 14, there might be a lot of people wondering what to do with their old server hardware. That's the last date of support for Windows Server 2003, the Microsoft Corp. server

Published on: June 18th, 2015 Brian Jackson

Twitter users combining business with social change #FollowFriday

So often in business, the almighty dollar is the bottom line. Private corporations are out to make a profit for their investors and operations are conducted with that at front of mind. Bigger

Published on: June 19th, 2014 Brian Jackson

‘Young entrepreneur of the year’ melds e-commerce jewellery sales with a good cause

What were you doing when you were 14 years old? I'll bet you weren't running an e-commerce business that split its profits with a charity funding women's education. If you had a job

Published on: June 13th, 2014 Brian Jackson

4 reasons your brand’s social responsibility efforts are falling short

As a Procter & Gamble brand alumnus and 25-year marketer, I've seen a lot of brands - Crest, Vicks, HBC, Lotto 6/49 among them - trying to use causes and good works to

Published on: June 4th, 2014 Bret Conkin