The Jubilee Fund Inc. is an ethical investment fund established to raise awareness concerning the interrelated issues of poverty reduction, financial assets and access to credit. The Jubilee Fund provides short term loans to not-for-profit organizations and businesses, (cooperatives and social enterprises) to initiate or complete community based projects that reduce poverty and financial exclusion. The Jubilee Fund projects typically contribute to community needs and priorities, low income housing and/or small business or worker co-op business opportunities.IdentityThe Jubilee Fund was launched in 2000 as a Winnipeg-based expression of the millennium celebration for debt relief. The Jubilee Fund was inspired by the Hebrew Scriptures that call for the periodic redistribution of wealth and debt cancellation.The Jubilee Fund began in the spirit to restore equity within society and we intend to carry this spirit forward in a caring, yet business-based manner.
BERNIE BELLAN Aug. 26 Tel Aviv – early in the morning It's day 49 for Israelis of what now seems to becoming a new routine: Sirens sound, head to the shelters, wait for the all clear – and then what?Go back to sleep, to work, to whatever you were doing? H
Welcome to Knowles Centre. We are a non-profit treatment centre for children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral difficulties.Knowles Centre began as an orphanage for boys in 1907. Today, Knowles Centre provides group care treatment, day treatment, sexual abuse treatment, treatment foster care, and independent living programs to both boys and girls and their families from Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario.
The Co-operators Group Limited is a Canadian co-operative with more than $48 billion in assets under administration. Through its group of companies it offers home, auto, life, group, travel, commercial and farm insurance, as well as investment products. The organization protects over 629,000 lives, 800,000 homes, 1.3 million vehicles, 39,000 farms and 197,000 businesses. It insures 175, 000 employees through Group Benefits plans, offers a wide range of Wealth Management products and provides Credit Lfe insurance to 617,000 Canadians.
The Co-operators is well known for its community involvement. As a co-operative insurer, the organization believes it has a responsibility to help build stronger, safer communities by actively supporting distraction-free driving, mental health, flood safety and sustainability.
The Co-operators is listed among the Best Employers in Canada by Aon Hewitt and Corporate Knights' Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada.