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
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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by Adelaide Z | June 15, 2011
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...
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by Adelaide Z | May 24, 2011
The 2011 Red Herring 100 North America will be announced on June 15 in Hollywood, but in the meantime, they've short-listed their top 200 and Vigilant Futures is one of those on the prestigious list. We're very proud and honoured to make it to the top 200 and look forward to the final...
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by Adelaide Z | May 12, 2011
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.
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by Adelaide Z | May 2, 2011
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...
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