CORPORATE GIVING
Invest in Indigenous Digital Futures
Organizations have an opportunity to help shape a more inclusive digital economy by investing in Indigenous education, skills development, and career pathways.
Supporting Indigenous digital education can advance corporate commitments to reconciliation, community investment, workforce development, and Indigenous representation, while helping create meaningful opportunities for Indigenous Peoples to build skills and experience in an increasingly digital economy.
Why this matters
1.4%
Indigenous workers represent only 1.4% of Canada's digital economy.
70%
Indigenous Peoples are 70% less likely to work in tech than non-Indigenous people within Canada.
$40,000
Canadian tech workers earning an average of $40,000 more per year than workers in other fields.
Indigenous Peoples remain significantly underrepresented in Canada's technology sector, facing systemic barriers to accessing technology education, training, employment, and opportunities to advance.
Indigenous Friends Association helps create more equitable pathways by providing free, culturally grounded digital education where Indigenous community members can build practical skills, connect with Indigenous mentors, and explore opportunities in technology and creative industries.
Corporate support helps us expand these opportunities while connecting participants with the tools, experience, professional networks, and pathways that can help carry their learning beyond our programs.
Why Support Indigenous Friends Association?
Supporting IFA gives your organization a meaningful way to advance commitments to reconciliation, Indigenous representation, education, workforce development, and community investment, while helping create tangible opportunities for Indigenous participants across Canada.
Proven & Growing Impact
Invest in programs that have reached more than 1,000 participants and growing. Corporate support helps keep our programs free while providing technology, mentorship, learning resources, participant supports, and opportunities beyond the classroom.
Support Skills & Career Pathways
Help address Indigenous underrepresentation in technology by supporting practical digital education in coding, web development, digital art, design, and entrepreneurship, with opportunities for mentorship, portfolio development, and paid internships.
Culturally Grounded Learning
Support programming grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Participants learn alongside Indigenous mentors in spaces where technology, creativity, culture, and community come together.
Put Your Commitments Into Action
IFA offers organizations a tangible way to turn corporate commitments into action. Whether your priorities include reconciliation, community investment, digital inclusion, Indigenous representation, or workforce development, your support contributes directly to opportunities for Indigenous participants.
Your investment goes beyond the classroom. It helps create access to skills, technology, mentorship, experience, and pathways participants can continue building on.
WAYS TO SUPPORT
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Make a one-time or ongoing corporate contribution to IFA.
Corporate gifts allow us to direct funding toward the programs, resources, participant supports, and organizational needs where they can have the greatest impact.
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Make it easy for your employees to support a cause they care about by including Indigenous Friends Association in your workplace giving program.
Workplace giving can provide employees with a simple way to make one-time, recurring, or payroll donations, while giving your organization another way to support Indigenous education and opportunities.
Interested in adding IFA to your workplace giving options? Contact us at fundraising@indigenousfriends.org and we'd be happy to help you get started.
Already use Benevity? Indigenous Friends Association is available on the platform. Simply search for us through your workplace giving account.
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Help your employees make their generosity go further! Encourage your employees to check their workplace giving or matching platform for Indigenous Friends Association.
Many employers match charitable donations made by their employees. Depending on your organization's program, a donation to IFA may be eligible for matching, increasing its impact without increasing the employee's contribution.
Check here to see your if your company has any matching programs active
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Direct your organization's support toward IFA's programs, learning opportunities, participant resources, or other areas of need.
Program support and sponsorship can provide organizations with an opportunity to align their philanthropic giving with Indigenous education, digital inclusion, skills development, and increased Indigenous representation in technology.
Contact us at: fundraising@indigenousfriends.org
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Organizations can contribute their time, expertise, and opportunities to support participants beyond the classroom. Depending on current needs, this may include:
Paid internships and work experience to help participants apply their skills in professional settings
Mentorship from professionals who can share experience, knowledge, and career guidance
Guest speaking about industries, careers, and professional pathways
Skills-based volunteering that brings professional expertise into our programs
Career and portfolio support to help participants prepare for future opportunities
Other collaborations that align with participant and program needs
Opportunities vary throughout the year. If your organization is interested in getting involved, we'd be happy to explore what might be possible. Contact us at: fundraising@indigenousfriends.org
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Your organization may have resources that can make a difference beyond a financial contribution.
In-kind support can include technology, software, professional services, learning resources, or other goods and services that meet current organizational and program needs.
Ask About Current Needs at: fundraising@indigenousfriends.org
READY TO GET INVOLVED?
Whether you're considering a corporate gift, workplace giving, or another way to contribute, we'd love to hear from you!
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Contact our Fundraising team today at fundraising@indigenousfriends.org
Thank you for considering Indigenous Friends Association as part of your organization's giving. Your support helps us continue providing free, culturally grounded digital learning and creating more opportunities for Indigenous participants across Canada.
Our Charitable Registration Number: 795484286RR0001
More Giving Information
Our Mailing Address: 8 DENNY ST, AJAX, ON L1Z 0S3