TalentLift is powered by the generous support of our funders and by our partners. Together, we're supporting many more people living in refugee circumstances to access work and skilled visa opportunities towards a secure future for them and their families.
Transformational funders
Scotiabank
Scotiabank is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services provider. TalentLift received transformational support from the Scotiabank ScotiaRISE program that will support displaced talent worldwide to connect with Canadian employers and relocate for work as a skills-based solution to their displacement.
Our funders
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada provides funding to TalentLift to implement programming that advances access by displaced job seekers to Canada’s Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot (EMPP).
UNHCR
UNHCR is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people.
Our partners
Unicorn Rebellion
Unicorn Rebellion is a branding agency that helps organizations discover their brilliant truth and unleash it onto the world.
Will O'Hare
Will O'Hare Photography provides emergency assistance to writers, bloggers, activists, and others who face threats due to their beliefs or expressions.
Secular Rescue
Secular Rescue is a program of the Center for Inquiry designed to provide emergency assistance to writers, bloggers, activists, and others who face threats due to their beliefs or expressions.
World Education Services (WES)
World Education Services (WES) is a non-profit social enterprise dedicated to helping newcomers achieve their educational and career goals in Canada.
HIAS
HIAS provides vital services to refugees and asylum seekers around the world and advocates for their fundamental rights so they can rebuild their lives.
ANZ Document Solution
ANZ is a professional language translation provider. Through a global network of professional translators and linguists, ANZ provides high quality, swift translations in all major world languages.
The Language Platform
The Language Platform is a translation and interpretation company based in Beirut. They are dedicated to connecting people all around the world by offering high-quality, efficient services through a network of highly capable and experienced Arabic, English and French translators, interpreters and linguists.
Hoot Reading
Hoot Reading offers one-to-one online reading lessons for kids with experienced teachers to accelerate learning. Their mission is to raise independent, confident readers who love learning.
Unión Venezolana en Perú
Unión Venezolana en Perú is a non-profit organization supporting the displaced Venezuelan population in Peru with employment, education and other needs.
Right to Learn
Right to Learn is a non-profit that provides gender-equitable education and works to improve access to rights in Afghanistan. Their programs deliver education opportunities for women and girls in Afghanistan as well as those who have been displaced, build advocacy in Canada and globally, and grow awareness and action through public engagement.
Talent Beyond Boundaries
Talent Beyond Boundaries connects people living as refugees to international job opportunities, opening labour mobility as a complementary solution to traditional refugee resettlement.
re:coded
Re:Coded is an award-winning non-profit startup with a mission to prepare talent from underserved and displaced backgrounds to start lifelong careers in the digital economy.
FOCUS
Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS) is an international crisis response and disaster risk management agency working in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. FOCUS provides emergency relief to communities suffering from natural disasters or other crises. FOCUS implements disaster risk reduction programs in areas vulnerable to natural hazards and engages in facilitating durable solutions for forcibly displaced persons including resettlement through complementary pathways.
Na’amal
Na’amal provides people living as refugees and other vulnerable populations training in marketable skills required in the global labour market and links them to meaningful job opportunities.