Omaze, the democratized fundraising platform, raises $9 million in Serie A
At the same time, Pohlson quickly climbed that Omaze could never have gone in that direction without the help of the strength of the stars to attract a giant user base, and said the company also continued to run skill campaigns. – are just one component of a broader strategy.
With COVID-19, the company has had to delay some of its celebrity meetings and elaborate vacation getaways don’t make much sense right now, but Poulson said, “People understand.” And, in general, he said the pandemic had a greater interest, giving others “a deeper preference for giving back” while making them “want to dream more than ever.”
The functionality of Omaze’s average crusade has quadrupled in more than 18 months, Poulson said, while revenue has increased to 500%.
In the past, Omaze raised $12 million in Serie A funds. The new cycle was carried out through FirstMark Capital, with the participation of Causeway Media Partners, BDMI, Tusk Ventures, Inherent Group, Gaingels, Penni Thow’s Copper and Guy Oseary. Wyc Grousbeck, owner of Thow and Celtics, joins the company’s board of directors.
“Omaze is unbeatable in his ability to empower charities that are making the world a leader in experiential donations and social impact,” Thow said in a statement. “As a new member of Omaze’s Board of Directors, you may not be happier with its expansion as they continue to expand new categories and expand internationally.”
Read more about those expansion plans: Poulson said that while Omaze’s expansion began with cars, he recently introduced luxury home crusades. You’ll use the new investment to expand those crusades while adding new cross categories. He also noted that the company was recently introduced to the UK, with expansion plans in Western Europe and Asia.
And while Omaze has already raised more than $130 million for charity, Poulson said one of his main goals is to make it the first for-profit firm to donate $1 billion.
“We need to pave the way for other social entrepreneurs,” he said. “It turns out that there is this false selection between being smart in the world and also having many economic opportunities. Our culture struggles to reward others for doing so intelligently. [At Omaze,] we believe it helps keep other people from doing well.”
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Nine-year-old Omar Seoudi was dreaming at a Halifax Walmart last week when something strange happened: Omar and his mother were waiting near the money sign at the Mumford Road location while his father was returning to pick up anything else. “A guy came out of nowhere and gave him a bunch of socks and said, ‘Is this pile of socks yours?'” Omar told CBC News. “And while the boy was giving her socks, a woman came and then she looked at me for about 3 moments, then she just took my mom’s purse.” When his circle of relatives emigrated to Canada last year, he was told that Canada was a safe country, so it did not happen to him that he was witnessing a robbery. “I feel pretty guilty because I may have literally avoided the problem,” he said. “I literally would have bought my mom’s purse, so in my opinion it’s my fault because I didn’t do anything when I saw it stolen.” When his mother found out what happened, he ran after the thieves, but they escaped. The family circle regrouped, told the store what happened and called the police. “I’m going to protect you” His parents told him it wasn’t his fault and they tried to convince him. But that night, he jumped up and talked in his sleep. His father, Mostafa, said the next day they realized that Omar was watching his parents and everyone with suspicion. “Sometimes I came to my right, seldom to my left. I ask him, ‘Why are you doing this?’ said Mostafa. He said, “This time I will protect you. I know other people are very bad and they’re going to rob you, so I’ll protect you. I learned from my mistakes. “His parents told him that he had done nothing wrong; Omar not only communicated in his sleep, he also spoke to the police. You need to be a scientist when you grow up and have a sense of detail. He gave the police a clear description of the woman who looked him in the eye before stealing from his mom. “I saw her with freckles on her face and she had short, blond hair like here,” she says, pointing her neck. Black mask; the uncommon but intelligent thing is that he had removed the mask when he stole it.” The family circle said they lost keys, credit cards and money. But the worst thing they lost was their son’s sense of security. Omar, meanwhile, watched videos on how to prevent thieves. He said they wouldn’t surprise him if he was dreaming for a moment. Halifax police are investigating.
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One by one, the Maple Leafs sat in front of their laptops, iPads and smartphones to deal with music, remotely via videoconferences, of course, after another season that began with big dreams and ended with a dull noise. There were no excuses, but the feeling that Toronto stays on the track with a young, talented core that only scratches the surface. There is more ownership of well-paid stars in their twies when things go wrong, a greater understanding of what it takes to win, greater engagement with each other and expansion at all levels, the Leafs insisted.
During Wednesday’s Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) meeting on the WE Charity case and the now-cancelled student service scholarship program, conservative mp and FINA vice president Pierre Poilievre brought a movement to suspend Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s salary “until he returns to paintings and answers questions in Parliament,” as it has taken about 20 days off in six weeks. Arrangement according to Poilievre. The movement declared inadmissible.
OTTAWA — Outgoing Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says his replacement must quickly put together a strong team in the Commons and for the next campaign, and he’s happy to offer whatever advice needed on that score.But there are two other pieces of advice he hopes whomever is elected later this month will also find a way to heed: the need for a leader to communicate authentically and to break through into the cities and suburbs whose voters are essential if the Tories are to win a majority government.”That is the critical ingredient,” he said Wednesday in a wide-ranging interview with The Canadian Press on what was his last day in the House of Commons as Opposition leader.His failure to win that majority sparked both an internal and external debate in the aftermath of the 2019 federal election that eventually led Scheer to resign, pending the result of the Conservative leadership race.The vote is finally coming to an end Aug. 21, after being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and four candidates are in the running: current MPs Erin O’Toole and Derek Sloan, former cabinet minister Peter MacKay and Toronto lawyer Leslyn Lewis.Sloan and Lewis both come from the social conservative wing of the party. Both have promised that if they do win, they would include legislation curtailing access to abortion on their agenda.Though Scheer promised he’d never allow a Conservative government to bring forward legislation on abortion, his own social conservative views on the subject were a flashpoint during the campaign.MacKay once infamously called them an “albatross” hanging around the party’s neck.Scheer dodged a question Wednesday on whether, if an avowed social conservative is elected as the next leader, the party would just find itself stuck dealing with the subject anew.He said he still believes a prime minister can be a social conservative, and it’s only under the current Liberals that people who hold those views have come to be demonized in the public square.Scheer is only the second permanent leader the Conservative Party of Canada has had since it was formed in a merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives.Stephen Harper became the leader of the new party in 2004, and would go on to lead the Tories through a succession of minority governments before winning a majority in 2011. In the majority years, Scheer — who had first been elected an MP from Regina in 2004 — served as Speaker of the House of Commons, but when the Tories lost power in 2015 and Harper resigned, he decided to try for leadership.He won in a squeaker of a vote in 2017.”We ended up seeing a bit of a division, a potential division after the last leadership,” said Alberta MP Matt Jeneroux.”Andrew Scheer came in, he kept this party together, he kept this party united. That’s really going to be his legacy.”Scheer said Wednesday he does consider that an accomplishment, and a challenge that his replacement will face.The race this time, by all accounts, has been far nastier inside caucus than in 2017. But the context is also different than when Scheer took the helm that year.The unprecedented situation forced by the COVID-19 pandemic means the next leader, if elected prime minister, could inherit a government with a historically high deficit, among other major economic and social challenges.For a party that’s built its brand on keeping government small and costs down, it will require thoughtful policy, Scheer said.”Many on the left are going to try to use the pandemic as a justification for a return to the failed policies of the past,” he said.”One of the things I believe the next leader of the party here, and advocates for free market economics around the world, will have to do is rewin the battles that we won in the ’80s.”Then, communist and socialist states in eastern Europe and elsewhere were flailing against the economic growth taking place in capitalist societies, he said, making it clear that the recipe for success isn’t more government intervention but letting people and markets take the lead.”What we have to do in our party here in Canada is find a way to communicate that message in a way that people can appreciate and support,” he said.The next leader needs to be mindful of the true communications challenge posed by political life, he said.”You have to maintain your authenticity and still allow who you are to flow through and connect with people,” he said.”But it’s also a very difficult environment because you have to always be polishing a message.”One message that Scheer said he heard loud and clear late last fall was that he was missing too much in the lives of his five children.It was a late night kitchen conversation with his teenage son Thomas that cemented his decision to step down, a conversation that came as the fact he was using party funds to pay for their private school tuition was becoming a public issue.That his kids were pulled into the political morass is part of the job, he said, but he hopes they will take away from the entire experience that politics can be a positive force.”You go through a lot of criticism online, in the media, from your opponents but you can also have a tremendously positive impact on your community,” he said.Scheer said he will remain the MP for Regina-Qu’Appelle, and will serve in whatever capacity the new leader requests.This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 12, 2020.Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press
Carleton University’s Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice (ICCJ) is ending all student internships with police forces and prisons next year.In a statement released earlier this week, the ICCJ said the move is part of an effort to reform the department in response to the Black Lives Matter movement.”Faculty at the ICCJ take these calls to action seriously,” according to the statement.Typically, some 80 third-year year criminology students are given internships with Ottawa police, the RCMP, Correctional Service Canada and the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.Professor Jeffrey Monaghan said those institutions have done too little to acknowledge systemic racism and work to eliminate “anti-Black and anti-Indigenous sentiments, practices and policies.””They’ve given lip service to reform, and that reform hasn’t happened,” said Monaghan.”I think we’re at a moment that we can reflect on that promise, and I think we can say that it’s been largely a failure,” he said, pointing out recent remarks from RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki and her initial denial of the existence of systemic racism in Canadian policing as a turning point.”We’re saying that action has to be made. We can’t maintain these relationships until we see action and we’re waiting to see that action,” Monaghan said.Placements began in 1973The internships have been a part of Carleton’s criminology program since 1973. Placements with police and correctional institutions make up about five to eight per cent of all placements.Monaghan said that will come to an end in 2021 as the department rethinks how to address systemic racism and colonialism.”The status quo is no longer an acceptable position to stay in,” he said.Monaghan acknowledged the potential positive role that young people, energized by the Black Lives Matter movement, might have in changing the culture of police agencies during their work placements, but he said it was unrealistic to continue to believe that meaningful change would come from within those institutions.He also rejected the view that the academic department was abandoning a chance to build important ties with Ottawa police, now under the command of a man of colour who has promised reform.”The door is still open. We’re still engaged in all kinds of different ways,” Monaghan said.Carleton’s ICCJ will create a new curriculum with anti-racism and an acknowledgement of colonialism at its centre.Two new $1,000 student bursaries for Black, Indigenous and other racialized students working in criminology will be available this year. Two more bursaries of the same amount are being earmarked for students working in social justice initiatives that address racism and colonialism in the criminal justice system. “I can definitely see how ending the placements with those institutions could be a form of that protest”, said 4th-year student Chanel Hepworth. “On the other hand … front-line involvement in these sectors by university students could assist with reform.”Though she completed placements last year with law firms, she doubted students working with police or correctional institutions would have much influence or success changing the institutional culture there. Hepworth said she supports the department’s decision.Ottawa police did not respond in time for publication
Decision day is looming for many Ottawa parents. Will they send their kids back to school in September or not?Both English-language boards have said parents may be able to change their minds, but likely not until at least halfway through the fall.”To the parents of Ottawa, I hear you,” said Dr. Vera Etches, Ottawa’s medical officer of health, during a virtual news conference earlier this week.”This is a difficult decision for many parents, given so many variables and so many unknowns about the future,” she said. “There’s no right answer for everyone.”Here’s some guidance from Etches and other experts. Their comments come from a combination of recent CBC interviews, virtual news conferences and public forums. What key risk factors should I consider?The key factors, according to Etches: * Your child’s health conditions. * Your child’s close contacts, and their health conditions. * Your family’s ability to find child care. * Your family’s ability to home-school. * And whether your child has development needs that require in-class learning with a trained professional.What are the experts watching for?Many experts agree a low rate of community transmission is key.”If it’s not in the community, it can’t get into the schools,” said Raywat Deonandan, an epidemiologist and associate professor at the University of Ottawa.”In Ottawa, as of today, I think I’d be confident in opening schools.”WATCH | Why to take a city-wide look at casesAnother expert points to “the three C’s.” “In epidemiology and public health, you often talk about the three C’s: closed spaces, crowded places and contact. And you know, I just described every public school in Canada,” said Dr. Doug Manuel, senior scientist with The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.Still, Manuel said he’s planning to send his own kids back to school, adding he’s “encouraged” by some of the measures that will be in place, such as masks and alternating schedules for high school students. What can we learn from other countries?”We know there’s tremendous possibility of transmission,” said Manuel. Other countries have already sent their children back to school, with mixed results. According to Manuel, we want to be more like Denmark or Finland, and less like Israel.”In Israel, there were some problems,” he said.There, after initial success in controlling the spread of COVID-19, “they went back to school, got a big heat wave, they couldn’t wear their masks … and there was a lot of transmission in communities. And they especially had some high schools that were very hard-hit.”Denmark and Finland started sending kids back in the spring, he said, with smaller class sizes and alternating schedules. At the time, Denmark had a similar rate of community transmission to Ottawa’s current rate, according to Manuel.Since then, both Denmark and Finland have been able to maintain low community transmission and are now moving toward a full-time return to the classroom. “We didn’t see a lot of transmission in schools [in those countries]. More so in the high schools, less in the … age 10 and under,” Manuel said.He said the jury is still out when it comes to whether kids transmit the virus at a different rate than adults.”The scientists I speak to, there’s quite a lot of uncertainty. People aren’t comfortable making a call on that.”Will we see positive cases in schools?Yes, according to every expert we’ve spoken to.”There will be [COVID-19] cases,” Etches said this week. “We know that. We can anticipate that.” Will that contribute to a jump in cases in Ottawa? Etches did not offer a prediction, but did say any new cases would likely originate outside the school rather than be transmitted within classrooms and corridors. Will I need to screen my child for symptoms?Yes. Every morning. And you should err on the side of caution when deciding whether to keep your kids home.Etches said detailed at-home screening recommendations will be provided to parents soon. Public health nurses will also be assigned to schools, where “rigorous screening” will be done. Etches also said parents who keep their kids home because of possible symptoms can expect a follow-up phone call from Ottawa Public Health (OPH).Experts said parents should look for more than just respiratory symptoms, since COVID-19 can also cause gastrointestinal symptoms including nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, particularly in children.And it’s time to let go of the quaint notion that good attendance equals academic success.”Keep them at home if they have symptoms. And you know, I would even go so far as to say if people in your bubble have symptoms, to consider keeping your kids home,” said epidemiologist Dara Spatz Friedman.What’s with these ‘isolation rooms’?School boards are trying to figure out what to do with students who display symptoms while at school. Boards said they’re looking to OPH for guidance on this.”We talk about having isolation spaces if a child should become sick, or be seen to be sick, during the school day,” said Camille Williams-Taylor, director of education with the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB).She said planning is in the initial stages, and more information will be communicated to parents in the coming weeks.What happens if someone at school tests positive?Etches said earlier this week that positive test results in schools will be looked at on a case-by-case basis. She also said there will be “response teams” with officials from both OPH and the school board deployed to “make sure that the actions that need to be taken, are taken.”She defined an “outbreak” as “two cases in a school where there’s a link between them,” as opposed to two cases that originated separately outside the school.The Ottawa Catholic School Board (OCSB) said it’s waiting to hear from the Ministry of Education on what will happen if a single student tests positive.”We expect that any day now, and it will have the very key logistics of who needs to be tested, how long each student or staff needs to be out of the building, what are the procedures for the return,” said Tom D’Amico, director of education at the OCSB.Does this burst the idea of bubbles?”You might throw up your hands and say, ‘Well, what’s the point of a bubble if my kid is in school?'” said Friedman.But going back to school doesn’t mean it’s time to stop bubbling, according to her and other experts.”The kids in your kid’s classroom are not part of your bubble, [so] there should be physical distancing,” she said.Etches also appealed to adults this week to keep their contacts to a minimum. “Adults are likely the source for children bringing it into the school,” she said.CHEO emergency room doctor Dayna Bell advised parents who are sending their kids back to school to have frank discussions with the other adults in their bubbles.”You need to be able to say to that person, ‘Hey, if my child picks up COVID at school and they give it to you, and you end up hospitalized, are we still going to be friends?” Bell suggested. “Because if that situation isn’t acceptable, then you know you can’t be in a bubble together.”Is going back to school better for my child’s mental health?Dr. Catherine Horvath, a child psychologist, said she’s concerned that children who suffer from anxiety, depression or learning issues will find it increasingly difficult to return to school the longer they stay home.She said since schools closed in March, her young patients have reported a decrease in anxiety because “there’s such a decrease in demands and expectations and things that make them anxious.”She said parents should broach the subject the same way they would approach a sex talk: make it age-appropriate, give only the facts and let them ask questions. “We need to remember that a lot of that is our stress and not our children’s stress — unless we make it their stress,” she said. Horvath said children who don’t typically struggle with anxiety could benefit from returning to class, and said that’s what she plans to do with her own kids.Are school boards considering alternative classrooms spaces?School boards said they’re hoping to keep the learning environment as “familiar” as possible. “There are operational challenges with moving spaces,” said Williams-Taylor, adding that transporting students to locations outside the school would pose too great a challenge.”We certainly are not looking to move to spaces that are outside of the school.”Will online learning be better than it was in the spring?Online learning in the spring was an “emergency pivot,” said Michelle Schira Hagerman, an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education.”I’m confident the online instructional modality will feel a little bit more predictable, a little bit more measured. There are systems now in place that weren’t necessarily in place at scale when we had to pivot in March,” she said.The OCDSB said “clear schedules and clear expectations” will be in place with online learning.”Having students understand when their tests are going to be, what the assessments are going to look like, is going to be certainly one of the other differences that we will see with online,” said Camille Williams-Taylor, director of education with the OCDSB.The Catholic board said it does not anticipate live-streaming classes.”One of the things that our teachers unions have indicated to us in our dialogues is they do not want the classroom teacher responsible at the same time for instructing and supervising students at home and those in front of them,” said Tom D’Amico with OCSB.Can my children still see their grandparents if I’m sending them back to school?Experts say this is an individual decision that depends on comfort levels and health status.At least one epidemiologist we spoke with said he wouldn’t be comfortable with it.”I don’t think I would at this point,” said Deonandan. “Again, it all varies depending on the nature of the community load. If suddenly we’re getting one or two cases per week in the community, then my confidence level goes up tremendously.”But if we’re in double digits per day, I’m confident about opening schools, but not around exposing my parents to potential lethal infection. So I’d be hesitant, but it doesn’t mean that they can’t visit the child, if the appropriate protections are in place, like face shields and face masks and distancing.”Is there reason to be optimistic?Deonandan, who describes himself as an optimist, has a mantra to share.”Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good,” he said. “We can deploy important strategies, and they may not work perfectly. But if enough of them work most of the time, then we have sufficient protection.”It’s like building fortifications against an invading army. You could build your castle, you could build your moat, you can build a big door, but either one of those things is not going to be perfect. But all of them in series may provide sufficient protection.”So the mask wearing won’t be perfect. Kids will fidget. That’s fine. Plexiglas barriers between desks won’t be perfect. Sometimes kids will look over them … but all those things, layered on top of each other, should offer sufficient protection,” he said.WATCH | Combining measures to widen protection
A B C. The labor referee has ruled that two veteran paramedics deserve to be fired after being accused of mistreating a suffering patient and allowing him to move slowly toward an elevator. In a writing published last month, Paul Love said a video of a construction site at Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside where Alyson Banner and Michael Crawford were called on October 14, 2019, showing “surprisingly” paramedics driving a 56-year-old man who moves down speed toward the elevator. Love’s resolution says Banner claimed that a crib would not be compatible in the elevator and then told an intellectual fitness officer that the guy who was writhing was in no pain and that he could simply walk.
The most recent showed COVID-19 instance numbers in Canada at 7:36 p.m. August 12, 2020: There are 120844 instances shown in Canada._ Quebec: 608 thirteen shown (adding up to five709 deaths, five3270 resolved) – Ontario: 40289 shown (totaling 2787 deaths, 36five90 resolved) – Alberta: 11893 shown (totaling 217 deaths, 10632 – British Columbia: 4196 shown (adding 196 deaths, 3469 resolved) – Saskatchewan: 1,484 shown (adding 20 deaths, thirteen resolved) – Nova Scotia: 1,071 shown (adding 64 deaths, 1007 resolved) – Manitoba five63 shown (adding 8 deaths , 368 resolved), 1 five présomptifs_ Newfoundland and Labrador: 268 shown (adding 3 deaths, 263 resolved) – New Brunswick: 178 shown (adding 2 deaths, 168 resolved) – Prince Edward Island: 41 shown (36 resolved)) – Yukon : 1 were shown five (thirteen resolved) – Canadian repatriated: thirteen were shown (thirteen of which were resolved) Northwest Territories: five were shown (five resolved) – Nunavut: not confirmed instancias_ Total : 120844 (1 five suspected, 120829 were shown) adding up to 9,006 deaths Settlement 107,148 re-resolved) This report through The Canadian Press was first published on August 12, 2020.
CHARLOTTETOWN – The five new COVID-19 instances reported across Prince Edward Island on Wednesday involve key foreign personnel arriving in the province on July 30, according to Dr. Heather Morrison, Director of Public Health. would have had limited contact with others, Morrison said at a press conference. The men, two in their 30s and 3 in their 40s, paint in the same domain and have come from a country other than the United States. Morrison didn’t say what domain they paint in, but he said it wasn’t health. “The detection of those five instances shows that our systems are working well,” he said. “These other people have been removed since their arrival on Prince Edward Island. They were diagnosed on regimen tests and had little or no contact.” Morrison added that all five instances are not similar to the Canadian Premier League, which is betting its shortened football season in Charlottetown, nor to the province’s seasonal residents. had a total of 41 cases shown of the new coronavirus and no deaths from COVID-19. The 36 cases recorded in the past on the island have been recovered without the need for hospitalization. He claimed that the 41 cases were similar to travel, adding that there were no indications of transmission of the virus by network paint in the province. August 12, 2020 The Canadian Press
A swimming boar has swimmers in Germany after taking a dip in the Baltic Sea before loading into the busy beach. (August 12)