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Not Another Child (NAC) uses social networks to provide support to 2,011 children-in-need (ages 0-14 years). This first phase of NAC's aspiration began in January 2011 and will end whenever 2,011 children's lives change for the better. NAC’s modus operandi is using Peer-to-Peer networks to identify children needing food, shelter, and clothing. With help from Trusted Volunteers, NAC ensures 100% of donations benefit impoverished children. In the words of NAC’s founder: “It is time to make a difference in the life of a child here and the life of a child there, one impoverished child at a time, for some children a one-time difference, for other children a difference of a lifetime.”

Since 1963 the Norwood Child & Family Resource Centre has been supporting children and families in the Norwood and surrounding communities. The programs and services offered from the Centre have always had a strong focus on supporting children and families in an effort to lessen the negative impacts of poverty: isolation, child abuse, substance abuse, low academic success, and criminal activity. The Centre also acts as a hub for the children and families in the community. Relationships built on trust evolve here and enable us to help the families in the community access resources and services that may otherwise be unknown to them. We are a meeting place, bringing individuals from the community together and creating strong groups capable of affecting change in their community.

Lower Trent Conservation (LTC) works to safeguard and restore our rivers, lakes and streams, protect and restore natural habitats, protect lives and property from natural hazards, and provide opportunities for the public to learn from, enjoy and respect the natural environment. As well, LTC holds almost 3,700 acres of natural space in public trust. They are special places in the watershed where the natural world comes first. LTC provides flood protection, watershed restoration and environmental advisory services. We perform preventative work in the knowledge that it is the most practical and cost-effective way to manage our watershed resources. We conduct studies, monitor conditions, interpret the information and inform our partner municipalities and the watershed community.

VISION: Love the experience VALUES: ACCOUNTABILITY: Taking responsibility for meeting the library service needs of the community in an efficient, effective and fiscally responsible manner. ACCESSIBILITY: Ensuring library services are accessible to the community-regardless of indvidual circumstances. COMMUNICATION: Engaging in open dialogue, listening attentively, and responding in such a way as to cultivate understanding and strengthen relationships. INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM: Facilitating access to all expressions of knowledge and intellectual activity. INNOVATION: Constantly challenging current practices, initiating breakthrough improvements, and creating new standards of performance. PARTNERSHIPS: Seeking mutually beneficial partnerships and links with the community to maximize community resources and benefits. QUALITY SERVICE: Providing customer-driven service with professionalism. TRUST AND RESPECT: Acting in good faith and understanding and appreciating differences.

Wen-Do Women's Self Defence is a program designed for women and girls. The physical and verbal skills are easy to use and easy to remember. Women and girls learn to protect themselves in a wide range of situations. Courses are open to all women, including women with disabilities, older women, young women, women of colour, lesbians and women of all financial means. Wen-Do believes in giving women and girls choices, alternatives to being victims. We recognize that women have a wealth of experience and information. We reinforce the positive aspects of the way in which women are currently dealing with the threat and fear of violence in our lives. We do not issue a list of do's and don'ts, but share information to encourage self trust and success.

Tel-Ecoute is registered charitable organization that relies on the work of community volunteers During recent years, we have seen that more and more problems of mental distress, violence, and suicide are, unfortunately, being added to those of solitude, poverty, and despair. In light of this social burden, our work "upstream" of the problem of suicide plays an important preventive role. Our role: to lend an understanding and welcoming ear The psychological suffering that our society regularly creates can lead to mental health problems, violent behavior, or suicide. By offering to listen respectfully, warmly, and non-judgmentally to all those who are experiencing difficulties, we allow them to express themselves in complete trust, and helps them find their own resources for solving their own problems.

Tzu Chi missions are a network of universal love. Tzu Chi works in the missions of charity, medicine, education and humanitarian with the spirit of sincerity, integrity, trust and honesty. We believe in the equality of all beings and the Buddha-nature latent in every person. Through charity, the rich can obtain blessings and joy while the poor can receive security and peace. With love, compassion, joy and selfless giving, Tzu Chi members strive to bring about the pure world of Tzu Chi through helping the needy, giving joy and eliminating suffering. We invite all people of goodwill to join us in purifying minds, pacifying the society and working towards a disaster-free world. "We should respect all life equally. We are willing to provide humanitarian assistance wherever disasters occur.

Howe Sound Rehabilitation Services Society first opened its doors in 1988 in North Vancouver with the establishment of Windsong House, a residential home that had accommodations for three people with developmental disabilities. Tonnar and members of Howe Sound were successful because they strongly encouraged community integration, support and awareness. Through close contact and the building of relationships within the community Howe Sound was effective in educating people, building trust and respect for the organization, its members and clients. Their hard work and dedication paid off and for 18years the residents of Windsong House have been respected citizens of the community. Today Howe Sound provides a range of residential and day program services to over 150 adults, youth and children with acquired brain injuries, developmental, physical, and medical health care needs.

We are located in a small community in a rural area of southern British Columbia. What We Offer: Community Counselling, Addictions and Alcohol Counselling, Children and Youth Counselling, Victims assistance and counselling, Family support,Lifeline, and our Family Centre are a few of the programs we offer. Our Safe Home provides a refuge for women and their children leaving an abusive relationship. Please visit our website at www.nklcss.org to learn more. Funding: Funding comes from a number of provincial and federal government ministries and authorities including: Federal Ministry of Health; Interior Health; Children and Family Development; Public Safety and Solicitor General; Community, Aboriginal and Women's Services; Columbia Basin Trust; and is supplemented by client fees, donations, membership fees, fund raising and funding from Foundations.

The Maitland Conservation Foundation is a registered, charitable, non-profit organization that supports the environmental work of the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority. Established in 1975 the Foundation's Board of Directors and members are volunteers. The Maitland Conservation Foundation works in partnership with the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority to raise funds for conservation projects. Currently the Foundation is working to ensure the availability of environmental education programs in the Maitland watershed, to support projects that will build the environmental resiliency of the watershed and to upgrade facilities at local conservation areas. Donors are welcome to direct their donations to specific initiatives including the John Hindmarsh Environmental Trust Fund, the Geoff Walker Memorial Fund, the Wawanosh Nature Centre, tree planting/environmental restoration efforts, Memorial Grove and Falls Reserve Conservation Area. Please contact us for information.

The Foundation has been established in order to provide a vehicle which will: ~ assist donors in making community focused philanthropic decisions; ~ receive and invest endowments in a permanent, professionally managed trust; ~ utiilize the funds earnings to support a broad range of cummunity enrichment activities; ~ be governed by a community appointed, local Board of Directors who serve as volunteers for a three year term; ~ minimize administrative expenses; ~ provide a long-term, permanent focus for benevolent work throughout our community ensuring a co-ordinated, integrated approach with other charitable organizations; ~ provide grants in response to our community's greatest needs while maintaining and expanding the endowment fund for future generations; ~ continue to work in close co-operation with similar foundations across Canada through our membership in the national organization, "Community Foundations of Canada".

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.