Sector Challenges

JDRF volunteer John O’Bryan (Seen on the main image of this page) initiated the 100 Challenge asking 100 leaders from the commercial real estate sector to each contribute towards a $1 million goal. Together with campaign volunteers Yogini Narine, Vanessa Oliver, Fred Rubinoff, Peter Senst, and Chris Tambakis, along with more than 100 of their fellow colleagues across Canada, they were successful.

John still hopes to spur other industries to hold similar challenges of their own throughout the campaign period.

“If you live in Canada and you’ve achieved any sort of success in your business, you’re such a small fraction of both the population of Canada and more importantly, of the planet. You’re in such a privileged position. It’s something that I think lots of people feel and believe and we’re all looking for ways and outlets to express that. And it’s to give back. With this campaign, you’re trying to raise $100 million, and you start with $10,000. That’s the essence of it. You must start somewhere. That to me, was the whole rationale behind the 100 Challenge campaign. If you can raise $1 million, you’ve only got 99 to go,” says John O’Bryan.

JDRF volunteer leader, Judy Goldring, initiated a challenge asking 100 leaders and companies from the wealth management sectors to each contribute towards a $1 million goal. Together with campaign volunteers Ted Bader, Jennifer Bizzarri, Nader Hamid, and Kendra Thompson, along with 100 of their colleagues across Canada, they succeeded.

The support from across the sector was inspiring, raising $1.1 million.

Their contributions will be matched as part of JDRF’s partnership with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The result from both sector challenges is an incredible $2.2 million.

JDRF thanks Judy Goldring, John O’Bryan and their co-contributors in these sector challenges for their incredible contribution to the $100M Campaign to Accelerate. The matched donation will contribute a total of $4 million towards vital type 1 diabetes research as part of JDRF’s partnership with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

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