Dev Aujla is the founder and executive director of DreamNow, a charitable organization that works with both start-ups and established organizations to generate ideas, and to help answer the question: How do you make money and change the world?
Most notably, DreamNow is known for launching Continuum, a social enterprise that provides follow up for conferences and programs around the world, and for its research into how a new generation of twenty and thirty-somethings can cope with the overwhelming social pressure to become both personally successful and socially conscious.
Mr. Aujla helped raise over one million dollars to support various youth organizations across Canada, working with young people to identify causes in their community and build projects to make change, launching organizations and fundraising campaigns.
Mr. Aujla currently sits as an adviser on a grant committee focused on youth organizations for the Laidlaw Foundation and is a director of both the Spirit Bear Youth Coalition and Resource Generation.
Nominator: Doug Taylor