
David Fletcher
Youth Hoops Basketball Academy
David Fletcher is a social impact leader serving as a Neighbourhood Resource Coordinator with the City of Edmonton and Operations Manager of YouthHoops Basketball Academy. He specializes in mobilizing citizen-led initiatives, fostering cross-sector partnerships, and designing inclusive programs that build long-term community capacity. At the City, he has guided community-led projects with budgets exceeding $500K, while at YouthHoops he has expanded participation by more than 130% in 2 years and built a team of 10 coaches. David’s work bridges municipal governance and nonprofit entrepreneurship, translating community assets into sustainable ventures that generate measurable social value.
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Elevated Escapes
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Philip Lozano
Be Local YYC
Manager of Be Local YYC, with almost 10 years of experience working in social enterprise, with a focus on community and grassroot initiatives
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Barb Rallison
StartWork
Barb serves as the Associate Director at the Institute for Community Prosperity. Her work, both locally and nationally, focuses on applying economic approaches to advance community benefit and address complex social challenges.
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Jeff Loomis
Momentum
Jeff works as the Executive Director of Momentum - a change-making organization that combines social and economic strategies to reduce poverty in Calgary. Momentum partners with people living on lower-incomes to get good jobs, create their own job through self-employment and save money to build their assets.
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Randy Poon
Purpose and Performance Project
Chief Story Officer and Founder of the Purpose and Performance Project, a consulting and coaching collaborative that helps leaders and organizations align purpose with impact.
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