Projects
Changing the world one community at a time.
Real Impact
Our projects are social enterprises which are businesses that operate to solve social problems.
Our teams work to provide empowering solutions to create long-lasting change and life-changing impact.
Current Projects
Greenologii
Project Greenologii focuses on food rescue and sustainability. Our team uses the starch from rescued potatoes to make a durable biopolymer, comparable to single-use plastic films. The remainder of the potato is used to create low-cost meals. Our goal is to reduce micro plastics. We also educate people on sustainability through our social media posts.
Net Positive
Net Positive aims to become change-makers in the fashion industry by reducing waste by up-cycling clothing. The goal is to create a more sustainable world by targeting issues faced by the fashion industry.
Sōmi
Sōmi is a sustainable personal care brand focused on making natural eco-friendly beauty products accessible. Every year, over 300 million tons of plastic packaging are sent to
landfills and our oceans. The personal care industry accounts for a majority of this packaging waste. Our mission is to help limit and reduce the consumption of single-use plastics in our environment and help others begin a sustainable lifestyle. At Sōmi, we strive to offer high-quality products made from plant-based ingredients to connect people back to nature and the planet. We focus on formulating and redesigning products that no longer need the bottle and plastic packaging.
Lives Changed
Don't take our word for it, hear it from our community!
Enactus Ryerson is a group of young business leaders who care deeply about the social issues we face in a diverse urban city like Toronto. The Enactus experience is truly unique as it provides an arena for young entrepreneurs to engage in experiential learning while encouraging an iterative, collaborative approach to social entrepreneurship.
From providing access to affordable and healthy food for students, to partnering with leaders in finance to raise financial literacy rates in youth across the GTA, to upcycling fast fashion to ensure less goes into our landfills - this organization puts people and social impact first.
It is a privilege to act as external advisor to the executive team of this organization, a group of young leaders who are hungry for knowledge and want to stretch themselves beyond their comfort zone. Each 1:1 and group interaction I’ve encountered has been positive, solution-focused, and authentic - I am proud of their growth and community leadership.
Success Stories
Green Iglu
72% of children in Northern Canada live without reliable access to affordable, nutritious food which is part of a systematic issue as to how food is grown, supplied and transported in Northern Canada.
Formerly known as Project Growing North, Green Iglu is fighting food insecurity in remote communities across Canada by using Growing Dome greenhouse technology to grow fresh produce all year-round.
Community Meal
Community Meal is a non-profit organization whose mission is to make food donation a norm in the hospitality industry.
Many shelters in Toronto serving food run entirely off of donations and struggle to feed the sometimes 100’s of people that rely on them every day.
Community Meal partners with restaurants to support them in donating meals to local shelters every month.
Project Pura
Pura's implementation model starts by partnering with local potters in target communities, where clean drinking water is a luxury. In these regions, pottery is often a traditional craft that generates a lower income than required to sustain a family.
Addressing this, passionate potters demonstrating financial need are selected to be ‘waterpreneurs’. They are taught how to manufacture the clay filters that resemble the clay pots already used for storage of drinking water.
In addition, they receive entrepreneurial education coupled with a micro-loan to jumpstart water sanitation businesses.
Sacred Valley
In Pisac, Peru, the average household income is 1,540 Soles ($603 CAD) per month and household expenses exceed 2,000 ($791 CAD) Soles per month.
This discrepancy results in low education graduation rates, as a by-product of the poverty families are faced with. With the local schools focusing on teaching heritage, there is a lack of viable post-secondary opportunities. Children abandon their education and travel to external communities to earn a living to help support their families.
To address quality education and poverty, Enactus Ryerson created Project Sacred Valley (PSV). We partnered with Kusi Kawsay, the local school, to create a sustainable solution that addresses both needs.