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The Riverwood Conservancy (TRC) is a volunteer and member-based community charity whose volunteers and staff provide nature and environmental education programs and services to children including special needs children, youth, and adults and families. TRC also improves and conserves the natural heritage of Riverwood park though stewardship activities, which includes native tree planting, managing invasive plants and re-establishing animal and plant habitat. TRC designs, plants and beautifies the many Chappell House Gardens. In addition, TRC promotes the further establishment of Riverwood as a public park in Mississauga. This is all accomplished in partnership with the City of Mississauga, local schools, businesses, and service clubs. Our programs contribute to a healthy community, enriching quality of life, and improving the environment. All TRC work occurs at Riverwood, a rare and ecologically diverse 150-acre site in central Mississauga.

Research has shown that an involvement in the arts increases a person's capacity to think critically and act independently--skills that are important to an individual's ability to contribute to our community. A quality education in the arts is often expensive and therefore inaccessible to the children who may benefit the most. Through artsREACH, those children who are least likely to have access to an education in the arts are able to benefit from the critical life skills that are learned as part of the artsREACH workshops. Trained artsREACH instructors lead 90-minute drawing, painting and theatre workshops in public elementary schools. Through these workshops, children develop artistic and creative skills in a positive learning environment; improve their self-confidence and self-esteem; develop teamwork, communication, and personal management skills; and gain an appriciation for the arts.

Educate the Children (EtC) is a non profit, charitable organization founded in 2004 by a local teacher in London, ON, Canada. The Board of EtC consists of a group of Canadian professionals who believe that Education is a fundamental right of all children and a responsibility that must be shared by all. Our Core Values include: • Knowledge and education • Innovation and creativity • Honesty and transparency • Fairness and equality • Passion for our work • Justice • An overall commitment to leaving the world a better place than we found it. We are strongly committed and dedicated to raising the funds needed to complete our projects. All of our members are volunteers, this helps us to keep our administrative cost to 1%. This means that 99% of every donation goes towards completing our projects in rural Nigeria.

Remix is open from 3-9pm Monday to Friday. We have a facility that includes a recording studio, two production rooms, a video editing suite, a graphic design suite, photography studio, a business centre, boardroom, 7 offices, two bathrooms and a kitchen. Youth work with their program leaders and use the facility and resources to work on their six-month plans and accomplish their day-to-day goals such as recording, working on business plans, photography, graphic design, etc. Remix holds monthly mandatory workshops, update meetings, field-trips, training sessions, and more. We also have a mentorship program, where participants are linked with industry professionals to help assist them with career goals, give them advice, share resources and networks and help develop their exit strategies for when they graduate the Remix program.

Raising The Village works with the most remote villages in Uganda, providing tools, training and critical infrastructure. In partnership with the village, communities prioritize their own needs and provide their own volunteer labour, and together with Raising The Village, build their own future.

The Aninga Project is a person-to-person based educational initiative that is currently funding the education of 7 girls in Uganda - 5 based on Canadian funding and 2 based on Ugandan funding. Any money that you donate to our organization goes towards the education and related expenses of the girls who we support. This money covers everything from their school fees to pencils, books, maize and jerry cans. The Aninga Project's funds are wire transferred directly from the project's bank account to our volunteers in Uganda who ensure that all of the girls' needs are taken care of. It only costs $35/month to cover all expenses for a girl going to school in Uganda, so every donation goes a long way.

The 1st CLC course in Canada was held in Windsor, Ontario in 1953. Courses have been offered continuously since that date, and have spread across the country from Vancouver Island to Cape Breton. CLC courses are currently offered in six provinces from coast to coast. Each year, more than 1,000 Canadians join the ranks of CLC's successful graduates. Our Instructors CLC courses are taught by dedicated teams of qualified volunteers who have themselves benefited from taking the course and undertaken to pass on to others the skills that they received. CLC course instructors additionally benefit from more advanced on-going training. This important feature -- that all CLC instructors are graduates of the program -- makes possible programs which are sensitive in their approach, time-proven in their effectiveness and yet affordable. As a non-profit educational and charitable organization the fee is only for the cost of materials and administration.

Our work inspires a vital re-connection between people and nature, community and oneself. We work primarily with children and families in the urban context. Our summer programs now include day and overnight camps in Muskoka as well as Toronto, and a regional training course for adults with a focus on nature connection, mentoring, community building and intergenerational learning. We currently work with over 1800 people per year, with over 500 in long term mentoring relationships where we support children to grow into healthy, active, and resilient people. Our goal is to inspire nature connection in childhood, and long term mentoring relationships to communities all across Ontario.

GTTI is a not-for-profit organization working to bring training opportunities to our community. Programs are coordinated through our local facility in Sutton, which hosts advanced technologies for learning.

AIM stands for "Ability in Me". AIM is intended to provide specialized education and support for children with Down syndrome and their families, helping them realize their full potential by working collaboratively with stakeholders. Through individual and small group learning experiences with the necessity of family engagement, each student will receive the personal attention they require to learn, to grow, and to contribute in inclusive settings at school and in the community.

The Tank is a non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas and forms of expression. Our goal is to foster an environment of inclusiveness and remove the burden of cost from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting with their art form. We serve over 2,500 artists every year in over 1,000 performances, and work across all disciplines, including theater, comedy, dance, film, music, public affairs, and storytelling. Further, we co-produce between 13 and 18 world premiere new plays each season. We keep ticket prices affordable and view our work as democratic, opening up both the creation and attendance of the arts to all and positioning the arts within civic and socio-political discourse.

The Grand Theatre, now in its 40th season, produces a six-play subscription series in the 839-seat MainStage while presenting Theatre for Young Audience productions and special programming in the 150-seat McManus Studio Theatre. With an annual budget of $6,000,000, The Grand receives 16% of operating funding from all levels of government while raising 13% of revenue through fundraising efforts and 64% through ticket sales. The Grand, with a total audience of 100,000 annually, operates with over 300 staff members and artists, and is supported by over 120 volunteers. Over 12,000 young people participate annually in Youth Programs which include the popular High School Project, subsidized student matinees and Student Club, study guides, backstage tours and specially designed workshops and performances. The Grand also supports professional development of artists through apprenticeships and new play development workshops.