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Impact Initiatives

Education is a collaborative effort. We’re proud to work with the following organizations on projects to help people from across Canada gain new skills.

Active Projects

Digital Skills for Youth (DS4Y) Program

Until March, 2021

This Project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Digital Skills for Youth (DS4Y) Program is a wage subsidy program that connects underemployed post-secondary graduates with digital employment opportunities at small businesses where youth can gain meaningful work experience to help them transition to career-oriented employment.

Small businesses can apply with Lighthouse Labs to obtain the wage subsidy to cover 100% of an intern's salary for up to 6 months, as well as $3000 towards training.
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Soldiers in Tech Project in partnership with Roland Gossage Foundation

April 2020 - March 2021

This Project is funded in part by the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario.
Soldiers in Tech is a program that helps veterans begin new chapters in their careers, and transition to civilian life, by using technology. The program also benefits private enterprises to tap into an amazing pool of individuals and their unique skills. This program will provide training and employment support to 45 veterans in Ontario.
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OWN Tech Initiative

April 2020 - March 2021

This Project is funded in part by the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario.
Lighthouse Labs comes together with the Ottawa Chinese Community Service Centre, CATA Alliance, My New Job Hunt, Riipen and the Social Planning Council of Ottawa to provide an innovative, made-in-Ontario solution to the employment and skills barriers experienced by newcomer women in the Ottawa and Eastern Ontario region. Sixty newcomer women with a background in IT upskill in a bootcamp format with in-demand technical skills and complementary soft skills. Then, employment services will be provided to match them with employers to start a career commensurate with background and experience.
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Accelerating Possibilities Project in partnership with Woodgreen Community Services

April 2020 - March 2021

This Project is funded in part by the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario.
Accelerating Possibilities brings together a consortium of employers, non-profit employment and training organizations and private trainers to prepare mid-career workers for tech-driven jobs in web development, data science and customer service. Accelerating Possibilities is a fast, innovative and practical workforce development approach to assess, train and develop jobs for mid-career workers
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Code Create Teach in partnership with Kids Code Jeunesse

February 2018 - Ongoing

With funding from the Government of Canada

Designed to provide teachers in every province and territory with the confidence and tools needed to bring the fundamentals of computational thinking and coding into the classrooms. LHL supported 2,703 teachers through over 100 free one-day introductory workshops on coding and computational thinking.
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Indigenous Tech Talent Development in partnership with First Nations Technology Council (FNTC)

2017 - Ongoing

The Bridging to Technology program provides Indigenous youth with comprehensive wrap-around training and services they need to pursue specialized training in a technical field. 73% of graduates to date are working in developer or tech related roles.
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Women Learning to Code in partnership with International Development Relief Fund and United Way

April 2018 - Ongoing

Women Learn to Code provided 60 women between the ages of 18 – 29 with 30 hours of programming language training. 12 women went on to participate in a full-time program, with 6 completing it to date and five obtaining careers as developers within 90 days of graduation. All 6 women who graduated also returned in 2019 to mentor the next cohort of IDRF students at Lighthouse Labs.
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