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Our Calgary based not for profit organization has worked with families and children with delays or disabilities since 2002. Our teams of professionals provide high quality, research-based programs for children and their families. Lead Foundation's teams work with a range of children from those with mild speech, motor, or behavior delays to children with more complex challenges, including Autism Spectrum Disorder. Our mandate is to help children and their families practice and learn new skills within their home, preschool, and community. One of our programs focuses on supports for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their families. These children can experience significant difficulties with communication, motor challenges, and social skills. Their combined challenges often interfere with their participation in family activities and community based group programs.

The Elora Centre for the Arts is a vibrant and community oriented arts organization that inspires and stimulates artistic excellence, aesthetic maturity and critical insight through exhibition, performance and education. It is model of of artistic endeavor and education. It provides opportunities for both artists and the broader community to engage in artistic pursuits of all kinds in a designate heritage building in the village of Elora. The ECFTA offers innovative and creative programs in a broad range of disciplines including visual arts, spoken word, live music, dance and crafts. The ECFTA serves as a home for the local and regional artistic community and provides a venue for people of all ages to experience enriching artistic activities and expression. The Centre is a leader in and encourages artistic freedom of expression, innovation and creativity. Through our arts education programming, we encourage youth to embrace the arts as integral to life.

Founded in 1990 by artist/writer/director ahdri zhina mandiela, the company came into the Toronto theatre spotlight in the summer of 1991 with her "dark diaspora..." in dub at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Incorporated in 1995 and registered as a charity in 2006, b current continues to amass an eclectic group of artists, and ignited the trend of embedding spoken word/movement, sound and visual amalgam which is now commonplace in theatre. b current educate and increase the public's understanding and appreciation of the arts by performing in public spaces, seniors' homes, churches, community centres and educational institutions and provides seminars on topics relating to such performances; provide instructional seminars related to the performing and visual arts; produce performing arts festivals for the educating and advancing of the public's understanding and appreciation of performing arts; and to educate artists through participation in such festivals and related workshops.

Parents as Teachers (PAT) works with parents to provide them with support and information on their developing child and to foster stong, nurturing relationships. Through regular personal home visits, parent group meetings, developmental screenings and connection to community resources the program: - increases parent knowledge of early childhood development and improves parenting practices - provides early detection of developmental delays and health issues - increases children's school readiness and school success - prevents child abuse and neglect The core values of the PAT model are that: - parents are their children's first and most influential teachers - the early years of a child's life are critical for optimal development and provide the foundation for success in school and life - research should be the foundation of parent education and family support services - an understanding and appreciation of the history and traditions of diverse cultures is essential

Amarok Society is a Canadian charity that goes into the world's most forbidding slums to teach mothers to teach children too poor for school. Daily, each mother goes from her Amarok Society Womens' School to teach at least 5 children from her neighbourhood in her own home. Amarok Society teaches literacy in Bangla, English and numeracy as well as health and hygiene and child care and development. The wonderful women of our Mothers of Intention Projects overcome a lifetime of bitter discouragement to find inspiration and hope in the promise that the children will be able to work their way out of their terrible poverty and debilitating ignorance. This is a new, effective, sustainable and cost-efficient method of addressing a very serious and dangerous problem that has resisted improvement in the past. Teach a Mother, Change the World

Art with a Heart Inc. is dedicated to using the arts to assist and empower people in various situations of need through multidisciplinary projects and programs. We strive to recognize the uniqueness of the individual while building relationship, creativity, confidence, and self worth in an inclusive environment. Through various programs we encourage team building and develop synergy allowing participants to explore and express their creative spirit. We aspire to challenge, encourage and equip these individuals to join in and build community. Art With A Heart Inc. desires to form relationships within existing support networks through places like mental health centres, substance abuse centres, seniors homes etc., adding on to the existing social services presently provided with a new vehicle of expression, and life skill enhancement.

Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary is currently home to 24 monkeys from a variety of different backgrounds. The farm is located approximately one hour north east of Toronto in the Sunderland area. Our residents include marmosets, ring-tailed and brown lemurs, capuchins, spider monkeys, baboons and Japanese macaques. We strive to provide a high quality of enrichment - social, food and structural. Unfortunately, owning primates as pets is legal in most areas of Canada, resulting in isolation, abandonment, abuse, malnutrition and neglect. We provide safe retirement to monkeys from these sad conditions and better their lives so they can live in peace and contentment. Please visit our website, facebook page and blog to learn more. Thank you for your support!

Calgary Police Service Constable John Petropoulos passed away in the line of duty on Sept. 29, 2000. John was investigating a break and enter complaint when he stepped through a false ceiling, fell nine feet into the lunchroom below and succumbed to brain injuries. There was no safety railing to warn him of the danger. He was 32. After his death, several of John’s recruit classmates set up the John Petropoulos Memorial Fund (JPMF) and raised monies through the sale of memorial pins to fellow officers. Subsequent pin sales, grants, fundraisers and ongoing donations continue to sustain the Fund. Our safety initiatives offer people tangible tips they can implement in their workplaces and on the roads to help ensure emergency responders make it home safely to their families after every shift.

Elimu is an international development organization based in Ottawa, Canada. We began undertaking projects in Kenya in 2006 as private individuals. Elimu was incorporated in January 2011 and received official charitable status from the Canadian government in March 2012. We are a board of directors of three Canadians. We also have a dynamic board of advisors and a volunteer administrator in Ottawa. The “office” of Elimu is a virtual set up run between Ottawa, Canada and Malindi, Kenya. For this reason there is currently only a P.O. Box address. Our Founder covers the overhead costs of the Canadian organization so that our donors' dollars go straight into projects. Our projects include a small home for children, building a nursery school for a village community and supporting young women to gain income-generating skills.

Global Friends is Canadian charitable organization run entirely by volunteers. We inspire and are inspired by passion, compassion, action and impact. Global Friends is dedicated to helping connect and empower youth around the world. Our intent is not to set up models of dependency but to provide the resources and introductions for mutually beneficial partnerships that can lead to self-sustainability.  Our goals are to facilitate empowerment and encourage strategic partnerships so people thrive as individuals and collaborators.   We believe children are the future.  Their courage and ingenuity inspires us. We strive to nurture their potential to become independent, contributing members of their home neighbourhoods as well as valued members of the global community by providing resources to meet basic needs, funding meaningful education, and fostering environments where dreams can become reality.

Dancers Dancing is continually working to develop a voice which reflects our contemporary environment.Dancers Dancing is dedicated to bringing exciting dance to as many and as varied audiences as possible. Created by Artistic Director, Judith Garay, the eclectic repertoire of the company exhibits technical excellence. The repertoire currently speaks of the emotional intensity of love and loss, the magic of fantasy and the lightness of comedy while combining grace with raw physicality. Strong in passion, the works of Dancers Dancing can be experienced on a purely visceral level, as well as on an emotional, spiritual and/or intellectual level. Dancers Dancing has received both critical and audience acclaim at home in Vancouver and on tour throughout British Columbia. By taking appealing, engaging and stimulating works on tour, Dancers Dancing is interfacing with new communities and developing awareness and interest in contemporary dance.

ANE supports Navajo Elder weavers living at or below poverty level in remote areas of UT and AZ reservations. We help them sell their rugs online and at rug shows so they get full value and sell more. We provide humanitarian aid to Elders who are too disabled to support themselves.  Each Spring and Fall volunteers pack and deliver food and supplies to 11 areas of reservation in community gatherings called Food Runs.  For the annual November Deer Valley Rug Show ANE brings Elder weavers and their family to Park City, provides for their lodging and food, and all of the money from the sale of their rugs goes to the weavers.  Elders in the program are 75-109 years old, many do not speak English, many heat with wood and do not have running water in their homes.