Sector Partners
Doing good, better together in Canada.
Our sector partners provide pro-bono expertise to build the capacity of our social ventures. Their contributions are an integral part of LEAP’s model.
Boston Consulting Group
BCG is a leading management consulting firm in Canada, serving a broad mix of top-tier clients and supporting them on their most important strategies. BCG builds best-in-class growth strategies and ongoing strategic consulting to provide the foundation for sustainable growth and national scale.
"We at the Boston Consulting Group are very passionate about bringing our core skills and client-enhancing capabilities to the social sector, in all its forms.”
- Kilian Berz, Senior Partner & Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group
EY - Canada
EY is a multinational professional services firm providing assurance, tax, consulting and advisory services to companies. EY provides robust IT, finance, HR and change management support and partners to build venture implementation plans.
"This unique effort is set to bring Canadian entrepreneurs together in a way they never have been before – and that’s something I’m proud to stand behind.””
— Eric Rawlinson, Managing Partner Greater Toronto Area, EY
The Offord Group
The Offord Group is a Toronto-based team of senior philanthropic consultants, each with over 20 years of management experience in helping organizations and donors achieve common goals. The Offord Group equips LEAP portfolio ventures with insights to bolster fundraising strategies and donor engagement.
"We are excited to have the opportunity to pioneer the Venture Philanthropy model in Canada, an approach that has proven transformational across the globe.”
— Nicholas Offord, Founder & President, The Offord Group
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
McCarthy Tétrault LLP is a leading law firm with offices in Canada’s major commercial centres and in London, UK. It provides business law, litigation, tax, real estate, and labour and employment law services. Top-tier legal support is provided by McCarthy Tétrault, enabling ventures to achieve their growth objectives.
"With the organizations that LEAP takes on there’s so much opportunity to help them scale up and have a social impact. LEAP projects allow lawyers at McCarthy Tétrault to work on things that have a potential impact on thousands and thousands of people.”
— Gordon Baird, Partner, McCarthy Tétrault
Hill+Knowlton Strategies
Hill+Knowlton Strategies is Canada’s top-rated public affairs and public relations consultancy, using thought leadership to recognize the public’s seat at the table. Hill+Knowlton provides advisory support to enable government relations and public relations strategies for LEAP ventures. Top-tier legal support is provided by McCarthy Tétrault, enabling ventures to achieve their growth objectives.
Google.org
Google.org, is the charitable arm of Google, a multinational technology company. The organization is noted for several high-impact grants to nonprofits using technology and data in innovative ways to support racial justice, educational opportunity, crisis response after health epidemics and natural disasters, and issues affecting the San Francisco Bay Area community where it's headquartered. It also hosts regular challenges around the world to stimulate innovative uses of technologies to address local challenges.