PHILANTHROPY
Parks Foundation Calgary
- Board of Governors, Chair Fundraising Committee
Driving efforts for a $65 Million Greenway 113 kilometre pathway to encircle Calgary. Upon completion in September 2017, it will become the worlds largest urban bike path. Raised $50mm to date including a $675K personal donation.
Calgary Humane Society
- Co-chair Leaps and Bounds Capital Campaign
Headed $10.7 million campaign for a new shelter and care for homeless animals.
Creative Destruction Lab
- Founding Partner
The Creative Destruction Lab is a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science-based companies. The program employs an objectives-based mentoring process with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation.
FirstEnergy Capital Corp.
- Founding Partner
Since inception in 1993, the organization has been committed to supporting the community with 2.5% of annual gross profits donated yearly, resulting in over $35 million donated to 600 local charities.
Economic Futures Council - Junior Achievement of Southern Alberta
- Founding Member
Economic Futures Council (EFC) is a group of individuals who firmly believe that JA enhances the lives of young people, strengthens our economy and produces solid ethical citizens.
The EFC was launched in 2012 in an effort to raise much needed annual funding to support core programming and growth initiatives for JA Southern Alberta. In the beginning, each EFC Founder was asked to make a $100,000 financial contribution (outright or pledged over 2 to 4 years) to sustainably improve the state of 3 futures: our youth, our economy and the JA Southern Alberta charitable organization itself.
Edge School
- Infrastructure Support
Mr. Davidson is a long-term supporter of Edge School. The Jim Davidson Sports Complex at Edge houses two NHL-sized rinks, the Duckett Performance Centre, and our gymnasium with two NBA-sized basketball courts – facilities that hundreds of Edge students and countless community members have benefitted from since 2008.