Bayside Rowing Club

The Bayside Rowing Club was founded in 1993 by Dominic Kahn, two-time national rowing champion and former coach of Canada's national rowing team, to make the sport more readily available to children of all socioeconomic backgrounds. In 1994, Kahn launched a program for kids at risk, bringing inner city kids out of the city to practice and compete in a rowing league for free. Over the last 16 years, more than 5,000 Toronto kids have come through the program, several of them going on to graduate from such elite rowing schools as Princeton, Harvard and Yale.

In 2009, Kahn re-launched the program as the Eric the Red Rowing League for Kids, with a new style of boat and coaching techniques. In this inaugural year, more than 550 kids from Regent Park, Flemingdom Park, Crescent Town, St. James Town and Parkdale participated.

Diabetes Hope Foundation

Diabetes Hope Foundation was created in 1999 by the current Chair, Barbara Pasternak, who has three children, two of whom live with type 1 insulin dependent diabetes. As her boys grew and made their way through the medical system, Barbara became acutely aware of gaps in the health care system for youth with diabetes.

Diabetes Hope Foundation was created to fill that gap and help families struggling with the financial and emotional challenges of children living with diabetes. The Foundation believes that by focusing on these youth today, we can create healthier and more productive adults tomorrow.

I Challenge Diabetes

I Challenge Diabetes (ICD) was founded in 2006 by Chris Jarvis, former Olympic rower, to provide   
motivational, technical and educational support for young people with diabetes, their health care providers and at times sharing with their teachers, coaches and family support.
Using a unique leadership model, ICD finds and develops the leaders of tomorrow as they change people’s lives today. Each program works to address the unique educational needs of participants and health care providers while impacting a broader advocacy focus as ICD challenges health and physical fitness goals that are changing the world view of diabetes.

Toronto Police Service

The Toronto Police Service (TPS), formerly the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force, is the police service for the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest municipal police service in Canada and second largest police force in Canada after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Toronto Police Service is dedicated to delivering police services in partnership with their communities to keep Toronto the best and safest place to be. The Toronto Police Service takes pride in designing and delivering a number of innovative youth mentoring and youth at-risk programs. These programs include; Proaction Cops & Kids, the Toronto Opera Program (TOP), Youth in Policing Initiative (YIPI), Empowered Student Partnerships (ESP), Public Education and Crime Eradication (PEACE), and the popular Toronto Recreational Outreach Outripping Program (TROOP).