Success Stories
Here are just some of Innovapost’s community success stories. For more information about Innovapost’s commitment to social and community responsibility, please contact us at: cce.committee@innovapost.com.
December 19, 2011 - Thanks to the kind hearts of 28 employees from our Ottawa and Toronto offices, a total of 48 lonely seniors opened up a gift Christmas morning this past year. These gifts were purchased, wrapped and delivered to participating Senior Residences in the Ottawa/Gatineau area, thanks to the efforts of our Innovapost employees.
Many thanks to all the employees for their donations and their time. Together we have helped keep Major Darren Steele’s Christmas legacy alive while touching the hearts of many lonely seniors.
December 19, 2011 - The 2011 holiday season marked the 5th year that Solar Drive has sponsored the Children’s Aid Christmas Program in their community. Solar Drive came out in fine form this year, providing gift cards for food, clothing and other presents to three local families.
In addition to everything purchased for the three families, we were also able to donate $750 in gift cards for food and $200 in Wal-Mart gift cards to other families within the Children’s Aid Network.
Thank you to everyone for opening your hearts and your wallets and spreading some holiday cheer. And a special thanks goes to the team of Solar Drive volunteers for their time and efforts to shop, wrap, load and fundraise for this campaign.
November 19, 2011 - This past December, Innovapost’s annual Shepherds of Good Hope (SGH) campaign took on a different approach than in previous years. Adopting a company-wide raffle with the grand prize of a flat screen TV and equally exciting early bird raffle prizes brought a renewed excitement to the program. And it proved to be very successful! Combined with the company’s generous donation, Innovapost employee donations and fundraising efforts across ALL offices managed to generate close to $6000 for families in need in our community. Amazing!
October 31, 2011 - Our 2011 Fall Festival kick-off brought a whole lot of noise, energy and drumming to our October Employee Information Sessions. The Drum Café, one of the world's leading team building and corporate events companies, led our Toronto and Ottawa employees through a very loud and thumping drum ceremony. This amazing event set the tone for a very energetic and memorable campaign!
Throughout the duration of the Fall Festival (October 19-28), we celebrated our employees and the cultural diversity across all the offices. We came together to socialize and participate in the fun and activities planned at each location. We appreciated all the contributions our employees have made to the company, their colleagues and the community.
We are all grateful and proud to have experienced and accomplished this year’s Festival as a team – United Across Canada in our efforts to make this campaign the success that it was. Through employee and company contributions and fundraising, we were able to provide $287,700 to the charities in our communities making a difference!
September 19, 2011 - St.Laurent Shopping Centre patrons were treated to an impromptu Flash Mob on September 15, 2011 organized by the Ottawa Hospital Foundation (OHF), to kick-off their White Coat Campaign. Close to 30 Innovapost employees, together with the OHF and participating White Coat members; Accenture, Gartner, RBC, Mitel and Trend Micro were seen "bustin’ a move” to Robert Palmer’s “Bad Case of Loving You”. The event was taped by OHF and can be viewed on YouTube. It also received some great coverage from the Ottawa Sun and the Metro newspaper. See more at these OHF Facebook and Twitter links.
August 1, 2011 - Innovapost’s 10-person cycling team participated once again in the RONA MS Bike Tour on August 6 and 7, 2011. Team members cycled 150 KM between Ottawa and Kemptville. Between personal fundraising efforts and the support of Innovapost, the team raised $6,900. Over 600 cyclists participated in the tour, raising $420,000 for MS. Congratulations to the Innovapost team and thank you to all our supporters and the Innovapost volunteers for giving up their time to help with event activities.
June 24, 2011 - For the 7th year in a row, Innovapost competed in the High Tech Cup Challenge at the Dragon Boat Race Festival on June 18-19, 2011 at Mooney's Bay Park on Riverside Drive.
While paddling a dragon boat was new for almost all of the crew members, they still posted respectable times, and more importantly, managed to avoid capsizing the boat! The Dragon Boat Festival raised a grand total of $310,000, with Innovapost contributing $950 in funds raised.
June 1, 2011 - Innovapost continues to be a proud sponsor of The Community Builder of the Year Awards Gala. This year, the United Way signature event was held on May 19 at the stunning new Ottawa Convention Centre, situated in the heart of our nation’s capital. In the company of some of our city’s best and brightest, including [...]
May 27, 2011 - Two of our Innovapost employees are Wish Grantors with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. They had the humbling experience of granting their very first wish to a 10 year old boy named Justin! Justin suffers from a rare brain disease called Merzbacher-Pelizaeus, which limits his motor skills. Our Wish Grantors made several visits to see the Vachon [...]
May 26, 2011 - We couldn’t have asked for a better day on May 7 to hold our 4th annual
Share the Power of a Wish Walk Run in support of Make-A-Wish® of Eastern Ontario. Innovapost employees, their families, and hundreds of participants attended our event at Ottawa’s City Hall, choosing to walk or run a 1km, 5km, or 10km route along Queen Elizabeth Drive.
We are pleased to announce that with the help of our
sponsors, Innovapost outperformed both the 2010 and 2011 targets ($100K) by raising an amazing $157,000, granting upwards of 15 wishes!
