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Nickolaas van der Velde was born and educated in the Netherlands and came to Canada for 10 years, eventually being hired about 4 years later by https://indwell.ca/ which manages several buildings in south-western Ontario with a head office in Hamilton. They are a Christian charity with over 285 employees, a volunteer board of directors and also have volunteers and have been operating for 50 years.
They are willing to share their knowledge and skills with those setting up in other areas, particularly the use of a Community Bond as a financing tool.
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Becca is an openly Autistic Professional on a mission to close the disability gap in leadership by working with companies to attract and retain disabled talent. Her focus is Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEIB) in the workplace because, as a female, disabled person, has been in search of Belonging as an employee her entire working life.
As a consultant and advisor she has taken her experiences and learnings to create a book which is available on Amazon. She grew up in New York and now lives in a rural area in Maine.
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Michelle tells the story of herself, husband and children lived in the Philippines, their trip coming to Canada and getting jobs here. Their daughter is a competitive swimmer and trains with a club at the Pan American stadium in Toronto, Canada.
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Andy Sutton is the tennis director of the Premier Racquet Club Markham and responsible for organizing an International Tennis Federation Wheelchair Tournament in Markham, Ontario, Canada earlier this year in a dome facility. Athletes participated from 9 countries as points help in qualifying for the summer Paralympics in Paris. The events include juniors and men/women's events in singles doubles and quads.
The team plans to run the event in 2025 with more volunteers, participants, sponsors and spectators.
Andy is willing to provide support for those interested in considering setting one up in your area so you can email me at asutton @premierraquetclubs.com and check out the tournament page on the International Tennis Federation website.
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Jenny Konkin started https://wholewayhouse.ca/ with her brother and is now president of the organization with several staff and locations giving back to communities in British Columbia. They support seniors and especially those with living issues. She is street smart from travelling to over 35 countries. They are willing to share their model with groups wanting to establish and grow similar organizations in provinces and territories in Canada.
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Jaclyn Seeler is the Program Manager of slwar.ca and Melissa is a member of the Women's Advisory Board. The organization has a collaboration of 26 agencies in London, Ontario and was formally started in 2016. They are willing to share their expertise with other communities to establish a similar model
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Elroy Jespersen brought together a group of people to create a Dementia Village in Langley British Columbia with the support of a company he used to work for, https://verveseniorliving.com/the-village/ He is open to communication to those who would like to start a village in another province, territory, state, country.
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Ted Hudson is a very active and passionate supporter of https://elderwisdom.ca/ and https://schlegelvillages.com/ which has 19 villages and 4 under construction. They have a very unique approach.
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Judy Hanson and a group with an autism member came together to start Autism Home Base which has helped many families over several years currehttps://autismhomebase.com/ntly providing 5 days of programming.
Check out their information on their site, https://autismhomebase.com/ which shows that Judy is the CEO of the charity.
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