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The Muskoka Conservancy, an amalgamation of the Muskoka Heritage Foundation and the Muskoka Heritage Trust, is a non-profit, registered land trust whose mandate is to protect the natural heritage of Muskoka through the acquisition of land for nature reserves and the establishment of conservation easement agreements with private landowners. Currently, the Muskoka Conservancy holds over 1,800 acres and 33,000 feet of shoreline across Muskoka.

Gamiing Nature Centre has an interesting history of indigenous settlement and European colonization. In 1984 the Schipper family purchased the 100 acre abandoned farm on the west shore of Pigeon Lake. To protect the land from development it was put in Trust with the Kawartha Land Trust in 2002 to preserve it in perpetuity to keep it available as an environmental education site for our and future generations. This was the first gift to the Kawartha Land Trust. The family re-established the original forest by allowing the land to revert to its natural state. With planting stock provided by MNR and the help of family, friends and volunteers, hundreds of native trees were planted on the property.Gamiing Nature Centre was established as a charitable organization in 2000,with a Board of Directors to guide the activities on the property. That name was chosen to honour those who lived on the land before us and to indicate our location along the shore.See www.gamiing.org

The Shikuri Project Charitable Trust's mission is to reduce the horrendously high rates of child deaths and suffering from sickle cell disease in sub Saharan Africa by training community health workers and providing a sustainable, diagnosis, medical care and caregiver education system.

CAN-DO's mission is to revitalize trust, accountability, and ethical interactions throughout the social, private, and public sectors through creating and implementing effective, results-oriented humanitarian initiatives with an integrated global response and diligently documenting the relief process from concept to completion.

The Land Conservancy of BC is modeled after the National Trust in Britain. It is a membership based Trust which protects land for natural, heritage, cultural, scenic and recreational values. Since its founding in 1997 TLC has protected over 150,000 acres on more than 300 properties throughout BC. TLC owns ranchland, forests, important salmon spawning areas, the world famous Abkhazi Garden, Wildwood EcoForestry Site, the Ross Bay Villa Heritage site and even a nursing colony for rare Townsend Bats. TLC is membership driven and has over 500 active volunteers in communities across British Columbia.

The Conservancy celebrated its tenth birthday in June 2014. It currently owns five properties totaling 122 hectares and holds an easement on a 71 hectare property. It monitors a 31 hectare property for the Ontario Heritage Trust. It plans to acquire more properties following its acquisition policy and strategic plan. Over 125 members support the work of the Land Conservancy with many volunteers doing stewardship work, monitoring properties, and evaluating potential acquisitions. An 11-member Board manages the organization. We are very proud of all that we are accomplishing as a non-profit, entirely volunteer land trust dedicated to “keeping nature near … always”. Website: LandConservancyKFLA.org email: info@landconservancykfla.org

Pac FUNS undertakes a number of projects that address it's mission, these include: Eagle Trust: An “in-perpetuity” endowment and trust fund to support long term development of existing and new experiential education centres and provides on-going support for such projects as strategic development plans, environmental leadership & learning programmes and experiential environmental learning curriculum/resources. Environmental Leadership & Learning Initiative: Provides direct support to educators, students and learners attending leading pedagogically based centres and programs of excellence. Environmental Learning Legacy Project: To expand the capacity and impact of program facilities of the North Vancouver Outdoor School (NVOS). NVOS is one of Canada's pre-emminent centres of excellence for environmental leadership and learning utilizing unique facilities to provide immersive and contextually integrated programming in natural, cultural and sustainable systems

Its primary aim is to support the JAQ Education Trust in Pakistan, which operates the Pehli Kiran School System, a network of eight schools and 1900+ children. The objective is to promote primary education for out-of-school children, especially girls, in the lowest income communities, to help them better achieve their potential and become productive members of society.

Sable Island is a 41k stretch of sand located approximately 290k SE of Halifax, NS, Canada. It is home to many species of plants & animals, including approx. 400 wild horses. The Island is also home to the threatened Roseate Tern, as well as Arctic Terns, gulls, sandpipers, plovers, black ducks and mergansers and is the only breeding ground of the rare Ipswich Sparrow. Living on Sable Island is the largest congregation of breeding Grey Seals and a small resident population of Harbour Seals. Sable Island Preservation Trust is a non-profit organization established in 1997 to help preserve and protect Sable Island's unique ecosytem. Sable Trust’s goal is to promote and conduct scientific research and monitoring and to undertake conservation programs which will ensure the long-term stability and viability of Sable Island, its plants and animal life, and the surrounding marine environment.

Meduxnekeag River Association is a non-profit community organization based in Woodstock New Brunswick. Since 1998, we have purchased and protected as the Meduxnekeag Valley Nature Preserve 120 hectares of ecologically-rich riparian forest including key habitat of more than a dozen species of provincially-rare plants. Our two principal education programs are guided curriculum-linked Preserve visits for K-12 classes, and our annual Meduxnekeag Environmental Showcase competition for elementary students. Financial support for property purchases has been received from the Dunn Foundation, EJLB Foundation, NB Wildlife Trust Fund, Woodstock Rotary Club, Nature Conservancy of Canada, Nature Trust of New Brunswick, and many individual donors. In 2004, we were honoured with a New Brunswick Environmental Leadership Award.

With a thirty-four year history, the Conserver Society of Hamilton & District Inc.(a grass roots education and action organisation on environmental issues), grew out of CHOP (Clear Hamilton of Pollution) which started in 1969. Past activities have included: composting programmes, bicycle paths, reduction of excess packaging, environmental education, and reduction of pesticide use. Board Committees have also participated in regional waste-management, air quality and transportation initiatives. The Society established an Environmental Trust, now known as the Ed Smee Environmental Trust and the Environmentalist of the Year Awards. We invite you to join us in our on-going efforts to protect and enhance the ecosystems of Hamilton and surrounding areas. Note: Single membership is $20.00, family $30.00. If you are joining or renewing your membership, please use the Conserver Society (General Fund) Fund selection. Please enter "membership payment" in the comments section. Thank you!

The National Environmental Treasure (NET) is a people's trust fund devoted to the exclusive funding of Canadian environmental organizations, to increase their core capacity in critical areas such as environmental education, public communications, research and key operations. We are particularly interested in supporting the under-funded smaller and medium-sized organizations, working in local communities and regions. Our goal is to build a 30 million dollar public charitable foundation for the environment - the equivalent of every Canadian donating a "loonie" for their environment.