Here at Elevate Financial Strategies, we believe we are blessed to be a blessing, which is the core foundation of Project 5&5

Project 5&5 is based on the age-old principle of donating 10% of profits to those in need, split between my favourite charity and those nominated by our clients.

I particularly love microfinance as a means to break cyclical poverty with dignity and grace, and Opportunity International (OI) is doing amazing things in this space, hence why it’s my charity of choice. As part of the OI Women’s Trust Group, No Woman Alone, we have joined with ten other Canadian women in business to personally sponsor a micro-finance project in the Dominica Republic, equipping and empowering women in the D.R. to create their own business and lift their families, and even communities, out of poverty through the transformational power of entrepreneurship. But why stop there, when we can double the fun by investing in so many other groups doing great work for folks in need?

Each Elevate client is invited to share a cause that’s near and dear to their heart, and all those charities are thrown into the proverbial hat – every month I draw a new client-nominated charity, with 5% of my income going to the winning client-nominated charity and the other 5% to Opportunity International.

From funding entrepreneurs in Haiti to educating kids in Guatemala to helping vulnerable local pets and supporting Cochrane Food Drives, here’s a sampling of the tremendous organizations we’ve been honoured to invest in over the years:

• Opportunity International
• Cochrane Humane Society
• Helping Hands Society
• Impact Ministries
• Light, Education, Development Nepal
• Samaritan’s Purse Women’s Projects
• Camp Evergreen
• Cochrane Pregnancy Care Centre
• Cochrane Activettes
• Coldest Night of the Year
• Cochrane Legion
• Kindred Foundation
• The Mustard Seed

Thanks so much for working with Elevate Financial, thus enabling us to invest in others. A generous heart is a blessing indeed!