Network Partners
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Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes) - Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes) is one of Canada's leading business law firms with more than 550 lawyers in offices in Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, Chicago, London, Bahrain, Beijing and associated offices in Al-Khobar and Shanghai. Our integrated office network gives clients worldwide access to the full spectrum of capabilities found throughout the Firm. Whether an issue is local or multi-jurisdictional, practice-area specific or cross-disciplinary, Blakes can provide solutions at every level. |
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Canadian Teachers' Federation – Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF) is the only organization that speaks nationally on behalf of the Canadian teaching profession. An alliance of 17 Member organizations representing nearly 200,000 teachers across the country, CTF is also a member of the international body of teachers, Education International. |
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Community Foundations of Canada - Community Foundations of Canada is the national membership organization for Canada’s community foundations. Canada’s 178 community foundations help Canadians invest in building strong and resilient places to live, work, and play. |
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Congress of Aboriginal Peoples - The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) represents the interests of off-reserve non-status and status Indians and Métis Aboriginal Peoples living in urban, rural, remote and isolated areas throughout Canada. |
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Dilys Leman - Dilys Leman is a Toronto-based writer and editor focusing on Aboriginal issues, education, arts and culture, and community development. She believes in the power of words – clear, insightful, focused communications – to mobilize knowledge for meaningful change. Her work includes developing content on a range of social, cultural and economic issues for First Nations, national and provincial agencies, and local and international institutions |
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Indspire - Indspire is the former National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation. Its new name combines the key notions of Indigenous and inspiration to highlight its exciting mandate. Indspire is best-known for its many programs that help Indigenous youth succeed. They include bursaries and scholarships, career conferences for youth, interactive classroom learning modules, the Indspire Institute and its Indspire Awards (formerly the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards). Indspire’s focus is on supporting, innovating, and fundamentally transforming Indigenous education. |
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Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami - Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) is the national voice of 55,000 Inuit living in 53 communities across the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (Northwest Territories), Nunavut, Nunavik (Northern Quebec), and Nunatsiavut (Northern Labrador), land claims regions. Inuit call this vast region Inuit Nunangat. Founded in 1971 ITK represents and promotes the interests of Inuit on a wide variety of environmental, social, cultural, and political, issues and challenges facing Inuit on the national level. ITK does not deliver or fund programs, rather it is a national advocacy organization. |
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Métis National Council - In 1982, the existing Aboriginal and Treaty rights of the Aboriginal peoples in Canada were recognized and affirmed in s35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, with explicit recognition of the Métis as one of the three distinct Aboriginal peoples. Since 1983, the MNC has represented the Métis Nation nationally and internationally. It receives its mandate and direction from the democratically elected leadership of the Métis Nation’s governments from Ontario westward. Specifically, the MNC reflects and moves forward on the desires and aspirations of these Métis governments at the national and international level. Overall, the MNC’s central goal is to secure a healthy space for the Métis Nation’s on-going existence within the Canadian federation. |
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Moving Red Canoe - A unique professional services firm focused on Aboriginal affairs consulting, with knowledge and professional experience working at the interface and dedicated to offering services to improving cultural knowledge and information. Our programs and services are developed and delivered to provide insights, debunk stereo-types, address misunderstandings and build capacity to work with Aboriginal leaders and communities and with Aboriginal entrepreneurs and organizations eager to penetrate the main-stream world of corporate Canada. |
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Native Women's Association of Canada: The Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) is founded on the collective goal to enhance, promote, and foster the social, economic, cultural and political well-being of First Nations and Métis women within First Nation, Métis and Canadian societies. As a national organization representing Aboriginal women since 1974, NWAC’s mandate is to achieve equality for all Aboriginal women in Canada. NWAC is actively involved with partner organizations across the globe towards this goal, including the United Nations and Amnesty International to end the discrimination against Indigenous women |
