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Empowering underserved communities through holistic, age-inclusive programs that foster long-term self-sustainability with a focus on education, healthcare, and gender equality.

Every building is an opportunity to provide communities and individuals access to life-improving services, yet disparity exists globally for low-resourced populations. Our vision is to see everyone included and enabled by resilient and sustainable social infrastructure, regardless of age, gender, location, or socioeconomic status. Our mission is to provide better access to social infrastructure through collaborative and resolute solutions that empower, advance, and respect communities in need. From the ground up, we create a lasting space for positive change.

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Skills for Change is a charitable organization dedicated to employment success for immigrants and refugees. A focus on professional communications, workplace culture, skills upgrading and bridging, mentoring and language classes directly responds to the needs of hiring managers from Canada’s leading employers. With a successful background in social innovation, Cheryl May, Executive Director, saw an emerging trend in government interest for increased innovation and collaboration from nonprofits to be responsive to market shifts and less dependent on public funding. Skills for Change launched an innovation program in January 2012 to test and push out new sustainable solutions in support and services. With an emphasis on strategic analysis, the approach weighs demographic and employer needs, adapting to the changing demands of the immigration landscape.

35-bed emergency shelter for homeless and at-risk Youth, ages 16-24. Programs include: Individual Youth Support Services- each resident is linked with a Case Manager who provides crisis intervention and one-on-one training and support to prepare the youth to get off the streets and out of the shelter system permanently; Day Program/Drop-In - prepares the youth for independent living and to help make them feel more positive about themselves. Some Day Programs include Budgeting, Employment searching, Housing workshops, Recreational activities and Motivational speeches by speakers from the Community; Housing Program- assists the youth in finding and keeping affordable housing; The Outreach & Aftercare Program- supports the youth once they have secured housing. Outreach workers visit clients at their homes, and offer guidance and aid as and when needed. Outreach clients have access to food packages and free laundry facilities.

Choices for Youth is a nonprofit, charitable, community-based agency that provides housing and lifestyle development supports to youth in the St. John’s metro area. Through our seven core programs, Choices provides strong, stable, and diversified support systems to help at-risk youth overcome major challenges in their lives. Because every young person’s story is unique, we give them the personal support they need to be successful and enhance their lives through informed and empowered choices. Choices for Youth continues to develop innovative and meaningful programs to meet the diverse needs of each of the hundreds of youth clients we have served annually since 1990.

Canada's only NEW clothing bank and basics-needs items, Windfall receives donations of exclusively NEW clothing, school backpacks, personal care items and small household goods and distributes these to 100 social service agencies working with the Greater Toronto Area's most vulnerable and marginalized citizens. Windfall also hosts job-training programs for teams of intellectually challenged adults from Community Living Toronto and clients on social assistance.

The conviction and mission of Toiletries For Families is to eliminate various social-economic challenges directly associated with proper hygiene. Our mission is to provide the essentials to build and maintain proper hygiene and improve self esteem.

There are one million orphans in Ethiopia, many of them fending for themselves. AIDS incidence in the general population is about one in six persons and the epidemic is growing. A similar proportion of children orphaned by AIDS is also infected with HIV. There are about 120,000 new cases of HIV infection among children each year. The country is overwhelmed by the needs of their orphans.

Believing that all children are created in God’s image, For His Children exists as a Christ-centered ministry to homeless children in Ecuador, South America, providing care in a loving and supportive environment, striving to unite them with their biological or adoptive family, and advocating on their behalf to others.