Alumni

Dear Friends,

We are always striving to come up with special offers, fun activities, and promotions for you - our valuable Alumni! In addition to an upcoming Yoga challenge (details below), we have also teamed up with Live Different and WestJet to organize an opportunity to see life from another perspective and to positively impact another community. If you would like to learn more about this life changing experience, please see below for more info.

We've also followed up with a few our attendees from last year's Social Innovators Youth Summit to find out where the year has led them. You can read their updates below as well as on our Start Talking! blog.

As a member of our Alumni, we'd also like to let you know that we have lots of exciting things in store for this year, so stay tuned for future offers, as well as fun events, contests, and promotions. Until next time, we wish you and yours a wonderful weekend!

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Experience of a Lifetime!
Why not join us on a Hero Holiday?
 
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada has teamed up with WestJet and Live Different to assemble a group of brave and generous souls to travel to the Dominican Republic in November 2014. We will build houses in an impoverished community that is gradually being transformed, house by house (and person by person) into its namesake, Nuevo Renacer ("New Life"). 
 
Why are we doing this? Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada believes in making valuable investments in our local communities. We also know that experiencing other cultures and seeing life from another perspective can change us in the process, and we'd love to have our own mentors and mentees experience this life-changing opportunity.

Bottom line: nobody comes away from a Live Different Hero Holiday without being changed for the better. If you would like to learn more and take part in this experience of a lifetime, click here 
or on the image below.
 
  

Grow Your Yoga
A community wide yoga challenge for Big Brothers Big Sisters

Moksha Yoga has joined forces with Big Brothers Big Sisters for their 2014 Grow Your Yoga campaign. The 30-day on-the-mat yoga challenge seeks to inspire off-the-mat change. 
 
Join Moksha and Modo Yoga Studios across Canada and the US from May 1st to 30th as they help strengthen our communities by sweating together, growing together and reaching out to the local agencies of Big Brothers Big Sisters. Click here to learn more.

 

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Today's Quote
 
 
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
~Booker T. Washington
 
 
My Journey since the Youth Summit
 
It has been a year since our 2013 Social Innovators Youth Summit, and we caught up with Rayna C. to find out what's happened since her experience in our nation's capital.
 
Now in grade 11, a few things have happened since the Youth Summit. Last year I applied for the CIBC YouthVision Scholarship, and in May of 2013 I found out that I had been accepted. I was the only student that applied from Eastern Ontario that made it in. In July 2013 I had the opportunity to go to Toronto and meet the other YouthVision Scholarship winners from all over Canada. Ever since these wonderful opportunities, I occasionally host or speak at my local agency's events, I've kind of become their local ambassador.
 
Over the summer, through this scholarship, I was able to mentor at a summer program that our agency and our local food bank teamed up on to create. I spent the whole summer mentoring kids and running around in the sun. This was perfect. I really enjoyed it, and it linked back to my action plan perfectly. I really wanted my action plan to be about providing underprivileged kids with opportunities they wanted, such as sports or summer programs or things they were interested in. It felt good to know that I could do that and still have fun, and know that these kids appreciated what I was doing. I has the opportunity to see how much they enjoyed what the other mentors and myself were doing for them...

 

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