Our partners inspire us.
Learn about our work with partners in public service, education and training, and social innovation.
StigmaZero
eLearning product development
Eradicating mental illness stigma in the workplace with eLearning.
For 5 years, StigmaZero successfully served companies of all sizes with workshops and speaking engagements focused on eradicating the stigma of mental illness at work. In 2018, they were ready to scale their impact and diversify their revenue streams.
Pure & Applied was brought in to digitally transform and enrich the program into a comprehensive eCourse for executives, HR, managers and employees, as well as consult on the company’s go-to-market strategy. StigmaZero is now supporting several fortune 500s, Governments, and NGOs using the LMS platform, Easy Generator.
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples of Canada
Ecosystem research & open online learning
Indigenous Innovation and its role in Canada’s Social Finance Fund.
As a formal partner with Economic and Social Development Canada and the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP), Pure & Applied lead education and public policy research and developed an online learning program to support Indigenous and non-Indigenous Social Purpose Organizations in preparation for the release of Canada’s $775 million Social Innovation Fund.
The outcome was to create a learning experience that could be embedded within a website with 3 digital learning streams on:
Traditional Knowledge on Indigenous Innovation,
Allyship for members of the SI ecosystem, and
How to become an Indigenous entrepreneur.
Reach for the Stars – Haiti
Online learning mobile application design
Improving literacy with culturally-relevant content and technology
In partnership with the University of Ottawa, McGill University, Hand in Hand for Haiti, Institution Vision Nouvelle Haiti and Haiti Futur, we developed an English, French and Creole literacy program called Reach for the Stars. The basis of the program was to develop locally-relevant, multilingual, literacy and cross-curricular educational materials for students and teachers across 18 schools in Haiti.
Over the past 2 years, Pure & Applied led the research and design of the interactive storyboards, print materials and self-paced mobile application. After having gone through several pilots with students and teachers in Haiti, the program is schedule to launch across all schools as of June 2020.
Women of Ontario Social Enterprise Network (WOSEN)
Learning design and toolkit development
Values-based facilitator training resources
WOSEN sought to develop a guide to support their new facilitators and align their network. With design principals articulated WOSEN sought to ensure they could be actioned throughout their programming. Without concrete tips, design principles such as Inclusive, Accessible, Anti-Oppressive, Decolonized, Systems-Informed, and Human-Centered can be challenging to implement consistently.
Pure & Applied developed a Facilitator’s Guide and Workbook to reflect WOSEN’s design principles and support facilitators with an actionable resource to prepare, execute and learn from their program delivery over time. The Facilitator’s Guide and Workbook were developed in close collaboration with facilitators from each member organization including Pillar Nonprofit Network, Centre for Social Innovation, Nordik Institute, and the Social Venture Exchange (SVX).
Ontario Society of Engineering Professionals
Microlearning program evaluation
Women in STEM: Diversity and Inclusion Platform
DiversifySTEM is a microlearning platform and resource designed to promote diversity and inclusion for professionals working in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics roles.
Upon reviewing engagement metrics and user feedback, the team was interested in exploring opportunities for product improvement and for revenue-generation for the non-profit.This work led to additional projects that would allow the DiversifySTEM team to operationalize our recommendations within their processes and approaches.
Concordia University
Virtual conference organization and execution
Filling a higher-ed curriculum gap with a virtual conference
After a year of reactive online teaching brought on by the effects of the pandemic, Concordia Education Department’s two resources centres ECEE and TESL identified a gap in their teacher-curriculum – gaps related to online and blended teaching. To respond quickly, the two centres partnered with Pure & Applied to offer their communities two-weeks of training and connecting through a virtual conference, called Tackling Online and Blended Teaching: A Virtual Festival.
Pure & Applied guided the team through a process to ensure that their vision and their knowledge of their community informed all decisions. We led a collaborative learning design process and the event’s planning, marketing and execution. Pure & Applied sourced speakers from the local community and its international network of education experts to bring the very best of online learning to Concordia’s community.
Youth Employment + Entrepreneurship Services (YES)
eLearning Development
R&D to scale impact for women entrepreneurs
With the success of the their ELLEvate Program for women entrepreneurs, YES sought to scale their impact and develop their first eLearning offering. The eLearning component of their program would also enable YES to diversify their revenue streams and increase their financial independence.
With a focus on uncovering core learning needs that most impact women’s business growth, Pure & Applied was contracted to work alongside the YES team to develop two full length courses to enables learners to take strategic action in their businesses. Both courses – one on Selling and another on Finance – include content such as instructional videos, interviews, scenarios, tools, and exercises for a self-paced learning experience that enables women to take action in their businesses. This program runs on Canvas LMS.
Information & Communications Technology Council of Canada (ICTC)
eLearning Development for University Students
Work-integrated-learning to rebrand a sector and attract students to it’s workforce
COVID-19 devastated a number of industries, but perhaps none more immediately than retail. Needing to adapt and innovate the Canadian government (ESDC) funded a work-integrated-learning (WIL) program to pre-skill and attract English- and French-speaking university students to aid in the rebuilding and rebranding effort.
ICTC, CIETECH, Pure & Applied and universities across the country collaborated to develop and deliver a cohort-based hybrid online course with asynchronous learning materials, such as instructional videos, case studies, and interactive activities all within Thinkific LMS. The aim of the course is to attract students in fields the industry needs to build capacity in such as engineering, business, and marketing. To attract these students we aimed to provide the most exciting picture of retail by working with CEOs, innovators and experts in the field of intelligent retail and bring the most emerging knowledge to the course and its students. Watch this student and employer testimonial video.
Vireo Education
EdTech Consulting - Retainer Based
Education Consulting and Cross-functional Startup Capacity Building
Since 2021, Vireo’s second year in the market, Pure & Applied has collaborated with the team to strategize, execute on mandates, and support the team as they grow into a high-performing EdTech organization. Ranging from supporting leadership and product to marketing and sales, our work has focused on bringing key market and industry intelligence to enable the team, leveraging our network to make connections, and developing a research foundation to communicate their commitment to educational effectiveness to school and district leaders. Vireo’s first two years in the market yielded over 100 school implementations of their hydroponic gardens, despite the challenges brought on by schools opening and closing frequently during the pandemic.
Studyo
EdTech Consulting - Project Based
Case Study Development for Reaching to Schools
With many successful school-wide implementations behind Studyo – the digital planner that develops students study skills – they sought to create and share their customer’s success stories to support their marketing and sales efforts. Pure & Applied collaborated with Studyo’s customers to capture and share the impact of Studyo in authentic and compelling ways. Working directly with two private schools’ leadership, teachers, and IT teams, Pure & Applied collected data, interviewed staff, and framed the stories that shaped these school’s successes.
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