We have donated over $10 million to education and conservations around the world
Giving is a big priority of ours
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
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
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
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
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
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
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