Fondation Jeanne Sauvé Jeanne Sauvé Foundation

Fondation Jeanne Sauvé
Jeanne Sauvé Foundation
Who are we?
Since its inception in 1989, the Jeanne Sauvé Foundation has
engaged more than 800 next generation leaders from across
Canada and over 70 countries around the world.
Building on 25 years of programming, the Foundation has developed
a unique leadership development model. It focuses on transforming
outstanding young change agents into self-actualized, globallyminded public leaders and game changers.
Since 2003, the Foundation’s flagship Sauvé Scholars Program and
Public Leadership Program have empowered 138 young leaders
from 50 countries.
The mission of the Jeanne Sauvé Foundation is to connect,
engage and empower a new generation of public leadership in
Canada and around the world to address key global challenges.
The Foundation draws on the example of The Right Honourable
Jeanne Sauvé as a public leader of strength and vision. She was
passionate about empowering young people to help build a better,
more peaceful world.
The Foundation brings together a diverse group of remarkable young
people from Canada and around the world who are passionate
about solving some of our most pressing challenges.
These leaders live together in the culturally rich and diverse city of
Montreal while experiencing a residential year of intense inquiry,
exchange, collaboration, and supported personal transformation.
Together, participants hone their skills as cross-cultural and
cross-disciplinary thinkers, communicators and collaborators.
The Jeanne Sauvé Foundation Pillars
The Foundation cultivates the next generation of globally-minded public leadership through three areas of mutually supportive activities:
Program
Network
Forum
The Jeanne Sauvé Public Leadership Program invests in the next generation of
leaders to help solve global challenges. Every two years, the program brings together a
select group of young people from Canada and around the world with strong leadership
records and a passion for improving the world for a year of reflection, transformation
and collective engagement.
The 10-month intensive, in-house, intercultural, international program invests in the
capacity of these young leaders to effect positive change by cultivating in them the
skills required to work across cultures, countries, disciplines and sectors in the public
arena. The program includes professional development workshops and seminars with
prominent figures from the world of academia, politics, business, advocacy, media,
philanthropy and the arts. At the end of their year in residence, Fellows return to their
respective countries, communities and organizations to apply what they’ve learned and
benefit from ongoing support.
This program builds on ten years of success delivering its predecessor, the Sauvé
Scholars Program.
The Jeanne Sauvé Fellows Network is a global community of emerging leaders
who are passionate about changing the world. The Foundation engages and actively
supports Sauvé Fellows around the world through innovative programming:
The Sauvé Encore! Program reconvenes past Sauvé Fellows to participate in
intensive training, as well as to connect and collaborate on thematically aligned
interests.
The Collaboration Fund aims to amplify the impact of the community of Sauvé
Fellows around the world by supporting their collaborative efforts to take on key
global challenges through public leadership.
Through events sponsored by the Jeanne Sauvé Forum, the Foundation engages the
broader public on globally significant challenges while showcasing the innovations,
achievements and impact of emerging leaders in Canada and around the world.
The Annual Jeanne Sauvé Address is its premier public event. Since 2010, the
Foundation has invited a distinguished Canadian woman to speak on an issue that
represents the focus of her professional career. Past speakers have included the Right
Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Sally Armstrong, Marie Wilson, Dr. Sheema Khan and
Céline Galipeau.
The Forum’s public engagement and education activities enrich public debate and
raises awareness of complex global problems while promoting the skills, values and
public leadership needed to address them.
Every two years, the Jeanne Sauvé Foundation focuses its activities
on a different globally significant challenge. For the 2015-17 period,
the Foundation has taken up a challenge that was central to Jeanne
Sauvé’s life work: Public Leadership for Culturally Diverse
Societies.
Through its three pillars, the Foundation investigates multiple aspects
of this challenge from diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives
and will explore, cultivate and showcase public leadership
approaches to fostering social cohesion in culturally diverse societies.
Jeanne Sauvé Public Leadership Program 2015-17
The 2015-17 Sauvé Fellows are challenged to collectively re-imagine the role of public leadership in culturally diverse societies.
Brijlal Chaudhari is a social
Costin Ciobanu is a political
Maya Fennig is an Israeli-born
Edison Huynh is a born-and-
entrepreneur dedicated to
enhancing the standard of living
of marginalized and
impoverished communities in
rural Nepal. He is passionate
about agriculture, farmers’
rights, wealth creation and
inclusive development.
communication consultant and
policy advisor from Romania.
He strongly believes in
nurturing and promoting public
leaders in order to rejuvenate
representative democracy and
create a more equal and
prosperous society.
social worker dedicated to
designing and researching
innovative, culturally
appropriate initiatives that
advance the well being of
asylum seekers and minorities.
She is interested in transcultural
mental health and psychosocial
support, with the goal of
improving the access, equity
and quality of mental health
services for underserved ethnic
and minority populations.
bred Londoner teacher who
employs culturally sensitive
pedagogy in his teachings. He
is passionate about crosscultural education and being
able to understand and be
understood across differences.
For more information about the Fellows and to contact them, please visit our website: www.jeannesauve.org
Jeanne Sauvé Public Leadership Program 2015-17
The 2015-17 Sauvé Fellows are challenged to collectively re-imagine the role of public leadership in culturally diverse societies.
Jaspreet Khangura is an
Rachel MacNeill is a
Svjetlana Markovic is a
Jonathan McPhedran
Emergency Medicine Resident
from Edmonton, Alberta. She is
interested in evidence based
health care and social
determinants of health.
Jaspreet is passionate about
improving health outcomes for
vulnerable and marginalized
populations, and hopes to
develop expertise in health,
social policy as well as
advocacy.
Canadian advocate committed
to grassroots community
building. Her professional and
academic experiences centre
on engaging communities
through communications and
participatory media. Rachel
grew up in Yellowknife,
Northwest Territories, which
inspired her interest in
community building, social
justice and Aboriginal women’s
issues.
human rights advocate and
constitutional reform enthusiast
from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
She coordinated the Women
citizens for constitutional reform
initiative in that country, which
advocates human rights and
freedoms, with a special focus
on gender rights.
Waitzer served for over 3
years as Director of Head &
Hands, a Montreal youth
empowerment organization that
operates within a collective,
consensus-based governance
model. Jon believes that the
best way to make our diverse
societies more just and
inclusive is to increase the
extent to which every person
and community participates
meaningfully in the decisions
by which they are affected.
For more information about the Fellows and to contact them, please visit our website: www.jeannesauve.org
Jeanne Sauvé Public Leadership Program 2015-17
The 2015-17 Sauvé Fellows are challenged to collectively re-imagine the role of public leadership in culturally diverse societies.
Charles Onu is a Nigerian social
Sabrina Sassi is a PhD
Syed QudratUllah is a non-
Rolando Jr. Villamero is an
innovator and software developer
working towards developing high
impact solutions that address
social challenges. Charles is
dedicated to applying technology
to solving some of the toughest
global challenges today.
Candidate in Political
Communications at Université
Laval. Originally from France,
Sabrina strives to support
advocacy and policy-making
on the field by helping activists.
Sabrina is passionate about
civic engagement, youth
empowerment and having a
positive impact on people’s
lives.
profit organization founder and
manager from Pakistan. He
created a youth-led organization
- Organization for the
Development of Youth (ODY) which provides various outreach
activities and skill development
workshops for province-based
youths.
advocate for diversity, inclusive
education and the rights of
persons with disabilities. In the
Philippines, he founded The
Outstanding Persons with
Disabilities of Negros Oriental
Alumni Community (TOPDAC), a
group of 35 persons with
disabilities recognized for their
personal excellence, leadership,
and social responsibility.
For more information about the Fellows and to contact them, please visit our website: www.jeannesauve.org
Testimonials
“The gift of the Program has been the time to reflect
on my personal and professional goals, and the
space to explore how I can use my work to be of
greater service to communities at home and
abroad.” — Shauntay Grant, Canada, 2009-10
Sauvé Fellow
“The opportunity to build a community with a group
of exceptional young leaders from around the
world was an unparalleled gift for which I will
always be grateful!” — Janet Jobson, South
Africa, 2009-10 Sauvé Fellow
“The Program was a once-in-a-lifetime
experience. It was a golden opportunity I will
never forget.” — Mohammed Shaban, the
Palestinian Territories, 2011-12 Sauvé Fellow
Valued Strategic Partners
The Jeanne Sauvé Foundation derives much of its strength from its unique
setting at the heart of the multidimensional cultural and academic
communities to which it belongs and contributes.
Its founding academic partner and home is McGill University, one of the
top 25 universities in the world.
Since 2012, a second partnership with Concordia University has brought a
new vibrant dimension to the Foundation’s programming.
One of the most enriching aspects of the Jeanne Sauvé Public Leadership
Program is the pairing of Fellows with leading academics from both
institutions who serve as academic mentors throughout the in-residence
year.
Stay in Touch
Ariane Guay-Jadah
Communications Manager
Jeanne Sauvé Foundation
1514, Docteur-Penfield Avenue
Montreal, Qc, H3G 1B9, Canada
E: [email protected]
T: 514-848-9292
www.jeannesauve.org