March of Dimes Canada
2000 employees
- Independent Living Services
- Employment Services
- Assistive Devices
- Peer Support Services
Services: CIO On-Call, Online Marketing & SEO, Big Data Consulting
In 1949, in an effort to find a cure for the polio virus, mothers across Canada joined a North America-wide fundraising effort. These dedicated volunteers, known as the Marching Mothers®, went door-to-door collecting donations of ‘just a dime’ to donate to the Canadian Foundation for Poliomyelitics (sic) for research for a cure to polio.
In 1951, the Canadian Foundation for Poliomyelitics was granted use of the name ‘Ontario March of Dimes’. Funds raised went to support research into the cure for polio.
In 1955, the polio vaccine created by Dr. Jonas Salk proved effective in limited test trials. With the threat of polio greatly diminished, Ontario March of Dimes began funding assistive devices for people who had contracted the polio virus, as well as providing programs focused primarily on rehabilitation and job training for polio survivors.
By the early 1960s, the organization shifted its mandate to serve the broader needs of all adults with physical disabilities, regardless of whether the disability was a result of a disability at birth, the polio virus, an accident, or even due to aging.
In 2006, Ontario March of Dimes looked to expand its service offering to people with physical disabilities outside of Ontario and the name ‘March of Dimes Canada’ was registered. The robust offering of programs and services that were offered under Ontario March of Dimes (in Ontario) since the early 1960s have been gradually expanded and offered throughout the country under March of Dimes Canada.
Outside Intelligence
Services: CIO On-Call, Online Marketing & SEO, Big Data Consulting
20+ employees
- Big Data
- Search Based Applications
- Enterprise Solutions
Outside Intelligence is a Search-based Application (SBA) company focused on risk.
The firm’s proprietary technology is based on data processing innovations that allow enterprises to synthesize and interpret vast amounts of disparate and otherwise inaccessible information in a timely manner – without the need to acquire large quantities of expensive infrastructure to manage it.
With Outside Intelligence, organizations discover, structure and summarize key data for strategic and operational decisions.
