by Adelaide Z | November 24, 2011
For the second year in a row, Vigilant Futures employees participated in RBC's relay race challenge benefiting Centraide. For the first time though, we won with the best time.
Vigilant Futures employees' posted the best time out of 43 teams right from the start. We were second up the 41 flights...
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by Adelaide Z | November 24, 2011
Vigilant Futures employees captured by Montreal's Metro News.This year we managed to win first place. We're very fast.
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by Adelaide Z | November 22, 2011
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...
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by Adelaide Z | October 6, 2011
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...
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by Adelaide Z | September 28, 2011
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...
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by Adelaide Z | September 26, 2011
It was an exceptionally warm and humid early autumn day in Montreal yesterday, and it just happened to be the annual 42 KM Montreal Oasis marathon. As usual, parts of the city were closed to traffic to let the runners through. Four members of the Vigilant Run Club registered to run the half...
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by Adelaide Z | September 20, 2011
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...
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by Adelaide Z | August 25, 2011
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...
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by Adelaide Z | July 5, 2011
Montreal, QC – July 5, 2011 – Youth Fusion, an award-winning charity that establishes partnerships between high schools and universities, appointed a new member to its Board of Directors in a unanimous vote at its last board meeting, Arvind Ramanathan, co-founder and Managing Director of Vigilant...
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by Adelaide Z | July 5, 2011
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...
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