About Up-Lifted
A For-Profit Social Enterprise Built for Newcomer Success
Up-Lifted Newcomers Inc. is a federally incorporated, for-profit social enterprise founded to address interconnected barriers that newcomers experience during settlement and integration.
Our business model brings together Housing, Employment, and Education as our three core pillars, supported by Career Development, Mental Well-being, and an Information Hub.
Unlike a traditional service model that addresses these challenges separately, Up-Lifted connects them through one coordinated pathway. We provide practical tools, information, services, and opportunities that help newcomers move from arrival toward stability, employment, education, and long-term economic and social integration.
We generate revenue through our services so that the organization can operate sustainably and expand its capacity to create social impact. We are committed to reinvesting the majority of our profits or surplus to strengthen our social mission, improve our services, develop accessible resources and technology, expand partnerships, and increase the positive outcomes we create for newcomers.
Up-Lifted is a business with a purpose: sustainable revenue supports sustainable social impact.
Our Founders
📍 Toronto, Canada
Keiday Ali
Founder & CEO
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Keiday Ali holds an MA in Immigration and Settlement Studies with over 10 years of experience and research in the field. As the founder of Up-Lifted Newcomer Support Services, Keiday has dedicated his career to empowering newcomers in Canada. Based in Toronto, Canada, he oversees all Canadian operations and ensures that every newcomer receives the support they need to build a successful life in their new home.
📍 United States
Łukasz Niparko
Co-Founder & COO
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Łukasz Niparko holds a Ph.D. in Digital Research and Litigation with over 10 years of experience empowering newcomers in the field. As the Co-Founder of Up-Lifted, Łukasz represents the company in the United States, driving strategic partnerships, digital innovation, and cross-border collaboration to expand Up-Lifted's reach across North America.
Our Story
Up-Lifted is a for-profit social enterprise founded by Keiday Ali and Łukasz Niparko to fill a critical gap in newcomer settlement by connecting housing, employment, education and information through one coordinated pathway.
The model leverages the interdependence of stable housing and meaningful employment to enhance integration outcomes and mental well-being. We believe that when newcomers have a safe place to call home and meaningful work to sustain themselves, everything else falls into place.
From our Toronto base, Up-Lifted is building a focused, credible growth path that follows newcomers from their first day to their full integration into Canadian society.
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Focused Growth. Real Impact.
Toronto
Launch and prove the model in Canada's newcomer capital.
Ontario
Expand services across the province.
Canada
Serve newcomers nationwide.
International
Expand the model beyond Canada.
How Up-Lifted Is Organized
Five business components working together as one social-enterprise model.
① Core Social Mission
Newcomer self-reliance through housing, employment and education.
② Revenue-Generating Services
Premium newcomer services + employer services + organizational services.
③ Free Social-Access Layer
Free resources, information, tools and referrals.
④ Reinvestment Mechanism
Majority of profits/surplus reinvested into the social mission.
⑤ Impact Reporting
Annual reporting of: Revenue → Reinvestment → People served → Outcomes → Social impact.
A Toronto Social-Purpose Supplier
The City of Toronto's Social Procurement Program recognizes social-purpose enterprises and uses social procurement in purchasing — aligned with the Buy Social Canada definition of social enterprise. Up-Lifted is positioned not only as a newcomer service company, but as a Toronto social-purpose supplier.
B2C
Newcomers → purchase services
B2B
Employers → purchase newcomer employment & workforce services
B2B2C
Organizations → pay Up-Lifted to provide newcomer support
B2G
Government & public-sector contracts → Up-Lifted delivers services
Mission Statement
To empower newcomers in Canada and the United States by providing integrated access to housing and employment services, fostering self-reliance, mental well-being, and economic inclusion.
Vision Statement
A North America where every newcomer has the opportunity to thrive through dignified housing, fair employment, and holistic community support.
Our Core Values
Equity
Equal access to opportunity and support for all newcomers, regardless of background.
Empowerment
Fostering self-reliance and personal agency in every individual we serve.
Innovation
Designing flexible, community-responsive solutions that evolve with needs.
Collaboration
Partnering with government, employers, landlords, and community organizations.