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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.

he Marguerite Centre is the only facility of its kind in Nova Scotia for women recovering from addictions and abuse. It is a place where holistic therapies such as reiki, yoga, acupuncture, journal writing and healing circle are as prevalent as conventional therapies; a place where nature and spirituality hold an integral place in the journey. Located in the Halifax Regional Municipality, The Marguerite Centre is staffed 24 hours a day. Residents receive their own room, can live here for up to a year, and are empowered to create their own path to healing and recovery. Counsellors work with residents to develop positive personal and family plans and goals.

New Path Foundation is a public foundation with a volunteer board of directors which serves as a link between donors, charitable interests and the vital needs of children, youth & families. With its important support role to New Path Youth & Family Services, New Path Foundation is able to reach out to all of Simcoe County and beyond. New Path Foundation originated as the Thompson Community Foundation in 1996. In 2000, the Foundation became New Path Foundation of Simcoe County. New Path Foundation ensures the availability of human and financial resources for innovative programs.

The David Busby Street Centre is a drop-in-centre designed to provide a warm safe environment for the marginalized population, individuals who are socially isolated, the homeless, low-income families, youth and seniors in the community.

The SHARP Foundation is a Calgary based, non-profit, charitable organization that provides a spectrum of integrated (medical, physical, psychosocial and spiritual aspects) care to our community's most vulnerable persons living with HIV/AIDS. We offer hope, dignity and compassion in a safe, non-judgemental environment. SHARP currently operates 4 residential care facilities: • Project Kathleen - 24/7 supported care for women with complex health/psychosocial profiles • Beswick House - a 24-hour supportive living environment for 10 people living with HIV / AIDS, including palliative care support. • Scott House - a program to address the needs of clients who require support to successfully establish themselves into independent living situations. • Project 2011 - Provides longer term housing and supports for individuals who have demonstrated an ability to live more independently in a group home setting. With your help SHARP can continue to respond to the increasing need for care!

The Kensington Conservancy is a land trust that works to protect lands and waters by purchasing property, accepting donations of land, and through voluntary conservation agreements. These protection methods are all aimed at protecting our precious landscape in perpetuity. The Kensington Conservancy believes that conservation and preservation can also be achieved through the good stewardship practices of all property owners. We work with local landowners, farmers, governments, schools and other organizations to develop programs that will promote greener and less intensive development, best land and water management practices, invasive species control, and low impact recreational activities. Our Vision is to inspire all members of the North Channel community to embrace positive conservation values that will promote the protection and preservation of natural ecosystems for all generations.

Charitree organizes, coordinates and participates in children's environmental learning and reforestation projects that involve tree planting. Charitree brings children, teachers, camp directors, and parents together in an effort to get kids outside more to connect with nature and learn how they can make the world a better place. All donations are 100% tax-deductible. CanadaHelps.org will issue your tax receipt instantly by email. Thanks for your support and for helping to make the world a better place!

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 ABLE Network has six core programs: work, recreation/healthy lifestyle, literacy, transit training, volunteering and social networking. All core programs are designed to improve the participants functioning in the community, improve the participants quality of life, develop healthy lifestyles, ensure safety while they gain the necessary life skills to move towards independence and to support inclusion in the community. Participants come to our program Monday - Friday, 8:30 - 4:30. Each individuals' daily program is tailored to their needs and capabilities with a strong emphasis on work experience. This core program endeavours to increase job skills of participants, increase work opportunities (paid, unpaid, volunteer) in the Aurora community and to provide training and support to local businesses to support inclusion. The inclusion of people with disabilities in natural settings allows them to have an equal opportunity to contribute to the health and well being of their community

Metchosin’s coast, meadows, forest, woodlands and mountainous areas include some of Canada’s rarest species and ecosystems. Being located in the rainshadow of the Olympic Mountains has produced a mild, seasonally dry climate that favours flora and fauna that are unique in Canada. Our Garry oak woodland is one of the rarest ecosystems in Canada, featuring displays of camas and fawn lilies that draw admirers from far and wide. The remnant old growth Coastal Douglas-fir forests at Mary Hill and Rocky Point are considered globally significant. The Metchosin Foundation was started in order to preserve our rare species and the forests and meadows that they inhabit. To that end we work with landowners to ensure that the landscapes they love will be protected into the future. Facilitating and supporting conservation covenants is the main tool at our disposal to help preserve these ecosystems.

The equality effect brings together leading human rights experts from Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, and the international context, to conduct ground-breaking legal work on women’s and girls’ human rights issues. The equality effect provides knowledge leadership and human rights education. The equality effect works to advance women’s and girls’ human rights, and promote their empowerment, through the development of equality research, strategic action plans, and the implementation of practical equality initiatives (e.g. public legal education, policy reform, judicial training, litigation, etc.) that will result in tangible change. The primary focus of the organization’s work relates to violence against women, the feminization of HIV/AIDS, and women’s property rights.

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.