Yesterday, the founder of Youth Fusion – Gabriel Bran Lopez – joined Vigilant employees over lunch. He brought along a robot for a lunchtime demo to motivate Vigilant employees about the upcoming 2012 FIRST Robotics challenge and the regional in Montreal. Students from a high school in the... read more
Last Wednesday September 28th, Vigilantes donned bright orange t-shirts to solicit spare change from Montrealers for a good cause: National Raise-a-Reader day. On the 10th anniversary of Raise-a-Reader, the organization raised upwards of $1.75 million for Canadian organizations devoted to... read more
Employees of Vigilant Futures are giving up their lunch hour and then some today to help sell a special edition of The Montreal Gazette through the downtown streets of our fair city. Why? Today is Raise-a-Reader day in Canada. Our employees raised just over $2700 in our annual auction held in... read more
So for the past few months - each Wednesday - about six to eight Vigilantes meet in the lobby after work and jog through the streets of Montreal. The purpose: train for the Montreal Oasis Marathon. In the lead up to the big event (which happens to be this coming weekend), some members of the... read more
On October 6, 2011 at a banquet for the Quebec regionals, Ernst & Young Canada will award its Entrepreneurs of the Year Award. Gabriel Bran Lopez will receive a special citation as the Social Entrepreneur of the year. This special citation is a unique category among the awards. It’s given in... read more
Youth Fusion announced today something everyone here at Vigilant has known about for a short while! One of our co-founders, Arvind Ramanathan, was appointed a board member on the Board of Directors for Youth Fusion. We’re all pretty excited, especially Arvind. Every Vigilante works with Youth... read more
Vigilant Futures won a very prestigious award last night in Hollywood, California. The company was one of 100 privately-held technology firms that made it to Red Herring's Top 100 list for 2011. Applicants submit their candidacy and Red Herring's editorial staff narrows the applicants down to... read more
We're quite proud one of the Youth Fusion teams made it all the way to the semis this year. Here's a video compilation from the weekend. read more
Speechless, proud and deeply moved is how I left Youth Action Montreal’s Living Your Legacy conference. The line-up of speakers the Youth Action Montreal team presented at the event was truly amazing. It was a day of great Canadians, and some of whom were from Montreal. They had Craig... read more
In keeping with our corporate philosophy of supporting community initiatives that promote youth education, we decided to venture off slightly and sponsor an event that takes community engagement among youth to heart; the same way Vigilant Futures does. This year, Youth Action Montreal is... read more