Cat rescue a ‘purrfect’ match for Manulife executive

Michael D’Aprile is very comfortable with numbers and cats. So, when the busy Manulife actuary was looking for a way to give something back to his community, Capacity Canada’s successful MatchBoard program was there to help. With guidance from Don McDermott, a MatchBoard facilitator with Capacity Canada, D’Aprile was ‘matched’ with Toronto Cat Rescue (TCR) […]

Manulife executive helps out close to home

Responding to an advertisement posted on an internal website at her workplace promoting Capacity Canada’s MatchBoard program changed Olga Gappasova’s life. Getting involved in the program, which pairs employees from major corporations to volunteer positions on the boards of charitable non-profit organizations, lead the Manulife executive to the Central West Specialized Developmental Services (CWSDS) in […]

CreateAthon: creating on a national scale

Luke Baulk says he is already formulating his plan to participate in the upcoming 2017 CreateAthon Waterloo-Wellington, which for the first time is taking on a national scope. Baulk, a third-year graphic design student at Conestoga College in Kitchener, will join approximately 50 of his counterparts Oct. 19-20 at Alchemy Systems in Guelph in the […]