Company Profile

As a primarily entrepreneurial and employee-owned brokerage, it only seems fitting for JDIMI to give to an organization that provides its clients a parallel opportunity to succeed. Opportunity International is a micro-finance organization that provides small business loans and training to the entrepreneurial poor in 28 Asian, African, Latin American and Eastern European countries. Opportunity International's mission is to transform lives by providing the working poor with start-up funds and the tools they need to rise out of poverty.

SickKids Foundation is the Charity of Choice for employees at JDIMI. Some employees have been directly touched by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto and others understand the growing need for funding that donations such as that from JDIMI will help fill. SickKids Foundation's fundraising is driven by the belief that improving the health and wellbeing of children is one of the most powerful ways to improve society. Funding is required for research and for the different sizes and types of equipment needed to properly treat the hospital's patients, because they range from birth to 18 years of age.

The Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness (CCAA) is a national non-profit, non-government charitable organization dedicated to eliminating child abuse through advocacy, education, public awareness and prevention programs. They provide accessible support, healing and individual empowerment for adult survivors, their families and caregivers through community and corporate partnerships.

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) is the leading charitable funder and advocate of Type 1 diabetes research worldwide. Their mission is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. JDRF has brought the long struggle against diabetes and its complications to a turning point. Now people suffering from diabetes are beginning to see their hopes for a cure grow close to reality.

Habitat for Humanity Canada is a national, non-profit, faith-based organization working for a world where everyone has a safe and decent place to live. The mission of the organization is to mobilize volunteers and community partners in building affordable housing and promoting homeownership as a means to breaking the cycle of poverty.