Sponsors

"I think [We Day is] fantastic, and every year when you come to We Day, you always think that it cannot get better than this and it does and it gets better and better every year. The energy in the room is absolutely incredible. I work for Air Canada and we are proud of our investments with Free The Children. Every year we want to do more because we see the benefit of it. You see the more you are involved with organizations such as Free The Children, the more your employees want to get involved."

- Micheline Villeneuve, Head of Air Canada Kids’ Horizons

"I love coming to We Day. I think it’s important to change the hearts of the First world to change to Third world. I think Club Penguin and Free The Children are on similar journey. We are working with children and we are changing the world that they live in, in terms of entertaining and in terms of values. We heard amazing stories from people who are actually on the front lines and who are making changes in all these areas."

- Dave Krysko, co-founder of Club Penguin

"It’s just wonderful to be in the midst of young group of change makers. The crowds are wild and they love this day. It’s marvelous. It’s extraordinary. What’s lovely about this event is that those who spoke on the stage learned as much as those in the audience because there’s wonderful exchange and people here are committed and they are passionate of what they do and they believe in social action."

- Susanne Boyce, former President Creative, Content and Channels, CTV

"It’s inspirational to see youth getting involved and wanting to do so much good. It’s so wonderful and that inspires us. It’s supposed to be the other way but it’s turning out that it’s them that are inspiring us to action. One thing that you can just write a cheque and sponsor the event, but actually getting involved and doing things makes it a lot more interesting for us and a lot more fun."

- Richard Rousseau, Senior Vice President & Managing Director Individual Investor Services, National Bank Financial

"It was so positive and we had 15 volunteers really eager come out. They were spread out around the building doing various jobs. It was a good opportunity for OMERS Worldwide and for Oxford properties and also our employees here in Vancouver. It’s our first partnership with FTC and it was our first We Day and I look forward to the next three years. Well to be partnered with a Canadian based organization that is now international and worldwide is very similar to our business strategy as well and we have started in Toronto, Ontario and have now expanded worldwide. So that partnership is a nice parallel."

- Lise Matthews, OMERS Worldwide

"Our Keg Spirit Foundation was really founded with the objective of getting the thousands of young kids we hire over a year involved in giving back. In our relatively small world of 10,000 people, that has been working well. What Marc and Craig were doing in a broader community very much mirrors what we are trying to do in our small little community. It’s just a fantastic match for us. All of our people are so excited about it. The impact they have in our management and our partners and suppliers are just immense and just fantastic."

- David Aisenstat, President & CEO, The Keg Steakhouse & Bar