Sponsors & Partners

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.

Schools Without Borders (SWB) is a youth-run, Canadian charity that is responding to the need to make learning more accessible for today's youth.

What We Do
In partnership with dynamic and established NGOs in Canada, Brazil, Kenya, Nepal, India, and Thailand, SWB provides hands-on/project-based learning experiences for today's youth that:

1.Create positive spaces for young people to develop their skills, experiences and confidence;
2.Provide guidance for youth to turn raw idealism into responsible action;  read more »

The Apathy is Boring Project is a national non-partisan project that uses art, media, and technology to encourage active citizenry, outreaching to a broad demographic of youth about how to be more involved in their communities and the democratic process.

Shoot Nations is a joint partnership between Plan UK and Shoot Experience to encourage young people to express their thoughts on issues of power, control and participation through photography and drawings. Shoot Nations aims to use these art forms as tools of cross-cultural, language-free communication.

The 8 Goals Campaign mobilizes Canadian post-secondary students to champion the Millennium Development Goals. Once informed on the issues, we can work together and call for policies to strengthen Canada's contribution to global development.

You have a lot of ideas about how you'd like to change the world or at least you have a lot of questions and concerns and you're looking for specific things you can do. We're giving you a place to connect, a place to be inspired, be supported, be celebrated. The only question is, "What's your something?"

Ramos Entertainment Management Group has grown into the largest urban-music concert promoter in Canada. Nine years and almost 200 shows later, R.E.M.G. has presented some of the biggest names in music including: De La Soul, Alicia Keys, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, Method Man, Mary J. Blige, and R.Kelly, amongst many, many others. R.E.M.G. also has a rich history of "breaking" relatively unknown artists to the Toronto music scene.  read more »

Founded 70 years ago, Plan is one of the oldest and largest international development agencies in the world. We work in 49 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas.

Plan directly supports more than 1,300,000 children and their families, and indirectly supports an estimated further 9,000,000 people who live in communities that are working with Plan.

Plan is independent, with no religious, political or governmental affiliations.

Plan’s vision is of a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies that respect people's rights and dignity.

The Portable Film Festival is an international festival of short film and user created content. It works in the same way as other film festivals the only difference - it's delivered completely online and distributed through portable video devices such as iPods, mobile phones and laptops. As such, we promote the free movement of content from digital and analogue spaces to offline. As a cultural movement, the Portable Film Festival represents the growing democratization of filmmaking and viewing processes around the world.  read more »