How this is run
Who decides what, where the money goes, and what we are legally. Short, and true.
What we are
An incorporated Ontario not-for-profit
Open Ice Initiative Inc. is an incorporated not-for-profit organization in Ontario, founded in 2025 and incorporated under the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010. A volunteer board of directors oversees the organization, and every dollar is accounted for.
- Legal name
- Open Ice Initiative Inc.
- Type
- Not-for-profit corporation, Ontario
- Statute
- Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010
- Incorporated
- 1 March 2026
- Founded
- 2025, by Andrew Adair
- Contact
- openiceinitiative@gmail.com
The structure
Board of Directors
Volunteer board of directors
The volunteer board of directors oversees the organization as a whole. Directors are not paid.
Founder and President
Andrew Adair
The founder leads the organization day to day. Adults work alongside him on the administration team, and anything that commits money or the organization's name goes through the Founder and President.
Headquarters Team
The Headquarters Team
The twenty-member Headquarters Team works alongside the founder and the adult administration team, under the board. It makes sure every Open Ice chapter across Canada and Ontario runs to the Open Ice standard, and it runs the flagship camps in Toronto.
No student is paid: there are no salaries, no honoraria and no expenses claimed by any member of the Headquarters Team.
Growth
Chapters across Ontario
Open Ice is growing across Ontario. Applications for new student-led chapters open in November 2026, with the first chapter camps planned from July 2027.
Where every dollar goes
There is no office and no paid staff, so donations go where they belong: ice, equipment and lunch.
Ice
Between $150 and $380 an hour at the arenas we have used, three hours a day, paid to the arena before the camp runs. A four day camp is twelve hours of it.
Equipment
$750 per child for a full set they keep, bought at partner pricing through HockeyStickMan.
Coaching
Professional coaching, donated, so it costs nothing.
Lunch
Provided by Pizza Pizza at no cost to us.
Insurance and permits
Required before an arena will let us on the ice.
Overheads
Kept to a minimum. There is no office and no paid staff.
- One child through an Open Ice campA full camp, donated coaching, lunch, and a full set of gear they keep$1,060
- One full set of equipment, all inThe cost that keeps children off the ice$750
Both numbers are what it costs us, all in, and the family pays none of it. How we count them.
Decisions
How they actually get made
The Headquarters Team meets weekly in person during term. Departments own their own decisions: sponsorship decides how to approach a sponsor, logistics decides how a day runs. Anything that commits money or the organization's name goes through the Founder and President.
Camper selection is the one decision nobody makes alone. Applications are ranked against a written system that draws on Toronto District School Board Learning Opportunities Index data and City of Toronto Neighbourhood Improvement Area designations, and the ranking is reviewed before offers go out.
Asking us
If you want to see something
Funders, schools and families are all entitled to ask how this works. We would rather answer than leave anyone guessing.