We have donated over $10 million to education and conservation around the world

 

From the beginning, Navigatr Group has been committed to giving back. Investing in the planet we all share is an essential part of protecting our vision of the future of travel.

A significant portion of our profits are funneled into community philanthropy, and over the years we have donated a total of over $10 million to several vital causes.

Today our giving is focused around a few core needs:

  • Building educational and life opportunities for young people, both at home and in the global communities where we work.

  • Supporting efforts to conserve and protect our vast planet through research and sustainable exploration of its ocean ecosystems.

Helping to protect the planet we all share is an essential part of our vision of the future of travel.

  • Royal Ontario Museum

    The Royal Ontario Museum showcases art, culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. Among the top 10 cultural institutions in North America, Canada’s largest and most comprehensive museum is home to a world-class collection of 13 million artworks, cultural objects and natural history specimens, featured in 40 gallery and exhibition spaces. As the country’s preeminent field research institute and an international leader in new discoveries, the ROM plays a vital role in advancing our understanding of the artistic, cultural and natural world. The ROM serves as a national landmark, and a dynamic cultural destination in the heart of Toronto for all to enjoy.​

    Funding has gone to support the Dawn of Life Gallery, which tells the story of the first life on earth up to the time of the Dinosaurs. ​

    Cause: Education, Arts & Culture

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  • Nekton

    Nekton is an independent not-for-profit research foundation exploring and conserving the ocean – aiming to support the protection of at least 30% of the ocean by 2030 to create a resilient ocean and stable planet. To do this, Nekton undertakes Missions for and on behalf of island and coastal nations to gather the data needed to galvanise the protection and management of their ocean. Nekton is currently undertaking their First Descent: Indian Ocean missions to create a baseline of data in the Indian Ocean, the least explored, and least protected, of our worlds oceans. ​

    Cause: Advocacy, Exploration, Environment

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  • Trails Youth Initiative

    Trails works with teachers in the GTA to identify at-risk youth who face barriers to success to provide life-long, consistent programming and support to foster community, emotional intelligence, and self-knowledge through outdoor experiential education. ​

    Cause: Education

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  • Make A Wish

    Make A Wish grants life-changing wishes for children with critical illness.

    Our partnership with Make-A-Wish began in 2017, when a group of staff dedicated to the organization began fundraising to grant the wish for one child. After a successful employee led campaign, Travel Edge stepped up to provide sponsorship for 5 wish children, then doubling that support to 10 the year after. ​

    Cause: Human Services

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  • Africa Mission Services

    Africa Mission Services (AMS) is an international, non-governmental organization (NGO) registered in Kenya. Our mission is to assist rural, underdeveloped communities within Africa to improve their quality of life physically, mentally and morally while providing short-term volunteers with hands-on experience in humanitarian service.

    Our partnership includes funding through AMS Clinic, AMS Ambulance, and Oloosinon Primary & Oloosinon Kensington Hall Secondary School for Girls.

    Cause: Education

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  • eXXpedition

    eXXpedition runs all-women sailing voyages exploring the impact of plastics and toxics in our ocean. Founded in 2014 to shift the way people feel, think, and act by building a global network of multidisciplinary women who can contribute to world-class scientific studies, explore solutions, and use their unique skill sets to tackle the ocean plastic crisis from all angles.

    Travel Edge is a Gold Sponsor for the 2019-2021 Round the World sailing voyage and scientific research mission. ​

    Cause: Advocacy, Exploration, Environment

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  • United Way: Greater Toronto

    United Way Greater Toronto is the largest non-governmental support of social services in the region, dedicated to fighting poverty in all of its forms. Their work if fuelled by ground-breaking research and powerful partnership, allowing them to identify gaps and mobilize resources for direct impact effecting positive and lasting change. ​

    Cause: Human Services

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