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Tom Cochrane: Humanitarian Award Recipient Recounts Poignant Experiences In Africa

Tom Cochrane: Humanitarian Award Recipient Recounts Poignant Experiences In Africa Tom Cochrane in Kenya, 2006.Noted Canadian singer-songwriter Tom Cochrane has been a lot of places and seen a lot of things, but one of his most poignant experiences occurred when he spent two-and-a-half weeks traveling through Africa on behalf of World Vision in 1989 that…

Company Launches Unique Matchmaking Service For Musicians

Company Launches Unique Matchmaking Service For Musicians 145 Live Solutions' Mike Bowman and Cathy Cutz team musicians, charities and corporations Toronto-based Michael Bowman and Cathy Cutz could blab your ears purple name-checking "synergy" and "metrics" and "low-hanging fruit" having worked for decades in media buying and marketing (Bowman) and…

Rock Photographer MacNaughtan's Art Book of Africa To Result In 500 Child Sponsors

Rock Photographer MacNaughtan's Art Book of Africa To Result In 500 Child Sponsors If a picture is worth a thousand words, Toronto's Andrew MacNaughtan has unleashed an important monologue on behalf of World Vision with his brand new coffee table book, Grace: Africa in Photographs. The result of a three-week sojourn to Kenya and Tanzania taken by…

Singer Lights Sheds Light On Two Charities

Singer Lights Sheds Light On Two Charities Jian Ghomeshi and Lights in the Baseco slums just outside Manila, Philippines - photo credit: World Vision Canada Lights, the Juno Award-winning electro pop artist whose 2009 debut album, The Listening, went gold in Canada, is an ideal voice to get behind a charity. The 24-year-old has 600,000 Facebook followers…

Got Your Goat? Why Not Buy A Unique Life-Changing Gift?

Got Your Goat? Why Not Buy A Unique Life-Changing Gift? Photo credit: courtesy of World VisionThis Christmas, why not buy a goat, a mango tree or a deep well for someone? At global non-profits, such as Plan Canada, World Vision, Oxfam, War Child and UNICEF, the charities offer what many of us will perceive to be unique gifts, but go a long way in helping…