About Willis College - Philanthropy

Giving back to the community...

Willis is not a community college but rather a college for the community

At Willis College, the commitments we make to our students and many of the three generations of the same families have become increasingly well known. What are less well known, perhaps, are the commitments we make to the communities in which we live and work.
Letter from the City Of Kanata

Our faculty and student body contributes to non-profit organizations, start ups and small to medium size enterprises. Which support a diverse group of organizations involved in a number of different interest areas including arts and culture, education and health. Letter from Swing For Kids

And there's more!

Our 5 pillars of career and community development model allowed us to contribute too many worthy causes and worthwhile organizations right across Canada. Two such accomplishments have been to our contribution to Ottawa Schools Breakfast Program has been acknowledged as "The community development at its best" and our contribution to the establishment of the Canada's First National Aboriginal IT Training Initiative TeKnoWave.

We are proud to post real-world web application projects that have been done by students in the college - all for real clients, click to view the web sites.

Willis College Scholarship Program

At Willis, we are also making an effort to support Aboriginal education, training and skills development for the betterment of Aboriginal peoples of Canada. In 2001, we established the Joseph Tokwiro Norton Scholarship and in 2010 we established the Dr. William Commanda Scholarship. Click here to view the Application!