Posts by Christine Hamilton
Totally different from all other galas in the city!
Ready to have an AMAZING night? We are rolling out the red carpet & invite you to join our 4th Amazing People Gala, proudly sponsored by Accora Village. Fun is the name of this evening. With the Disco Inferno theme we encourage you to dust off your groovy powder blue tux & splashy cocktail dress….then…
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Ready to have an AMAZING night?
We are rolling out the red carpet & invite you to join our 4th Amazing People Gala, proudly sponsored by Accora Village. Totally different from all other galas in the city! Fun is the name of this evening. With the Disco Inferno theme we encourage you to dust off your groovy powder blue tux &…
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Highlighting Ottawa’s Amazing People!
The Amazing People Gala is fast approaching and we’ve already heard from dozens of people in our community, nominating their peers for the amazing things they’ve done, often under the radar. But these actions don’t go unnoticed! At this year’s gala, we’ll be celebrating 40 of Ottawa’s amazing people and awarding one special person the…
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Amazing Wine
Amazing People is lucky enough to have its own Amazing Wine that people can buy to support our great cause. You can choose from two great wines, with $1 from each purchase going towards the Amazing People charities. Wine can be purchased from the Savvy Wine location in Ottawa or you can have it delivered to…
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‘Amazing People’ concert with Chantal Kreviazuk adds star power to Ottawa Race Weekend
Article published in the Ottawa Business Journal by Caroline Phillips, May 29, 2017. Pasta dinner and light stretching aside, the best way to prepare for this year’s Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend was to hang out with the consummately entertaining and insanely talented Chantal Kreviazuk at the Shaw Centre on Friday night. Red, White and Gold: An Amazing…
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Highlighting HERA Mission, One of Amazing People’s Target Charities
In a tiny one room home in a dusty slum in Kisumu, Kenya, Anyango Akama anxiously waits for a vehicle to arrive. It carries two treasured Canadian visitors, Devlin and Peggy Taillon, the boy she gave birth to seven years earlier and the woman who adopted him. It was January 2007 when Peggy first came…
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Ottawa Media Group’s Amazing People Partners with the Michaëlle Jean Foundation to Support Disadvantaged Youth
Ottawa Media Group’s (OMG) philanthropic arm, Amazing People, is pleased to announce that to mark Canada 150, it is joining with the foundation co-founded by former Governor General Michaëlle Jean and her husband Jean-Daniel Lafond to raise money to empower Canadian youth to use arts to improve their lives and revitalize their communities. A series…
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Ottawa fundraising group, Amazing People, hosted first of three major events to help children in need
Tara Shannon, songwriter/recording artist and the Amazing People Creative Director, will dedicate her December 2nd “Amazing People Holiday Concert” to helping children in Canada, Nicaragua and Kenya. Tara’s latest single, Butterfly Child, raised money to help Jonathan Pitre and her upcoming album will assist the Ottawa Aboriginal Coalition. The dedicated philanthropist will donate concert proceeds…
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2016 SchoolBOX Build
The Amazing People Youth Scholarship offers youth in the Ottawa area who have demonstrated extensive community involvement with the opportunity to expand their reach globally. Through the scholarship, selected individuals get to travel to another country and help build classrooms with our supported charity, SchoolBOX. Just this year, volunteers have traveled with SchoolBOX to do…
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