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CORE VALUES As the voice of anglers and hunters, the OFAH will professionally represent Ontario’s anglers and hunters, their hunting and fishing rights and traditions, and their passion for hunting and fishing, and for fish and wildlife conservation. The OFAH supports, and will seek to enhance, Ontario’s rich traditions of hunting and fishing, and the quality of life they represent. The OFAH will promote, encourage, and seek to ensure the conservation of Ontario’s fish and wildlife, their habitats, and the ecosystems that support them, to ensure continuing benefits to anglers and hunters, and by extension, to all of the people in Ontario. The OFAH will encourage, conduct and lead proactive fish and wildlife management, individually and in cooperation with others, to ensure the conservation of resources, the protection and enhancement of our hunting and fishing heritage, and the provision of benefits to meet the needs of Ontarians.

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 Canadian Health and Environment Education and Research Foundation (CHEER) works to educate health professionals and citizens about environmental health hazards. Working with its sister organization, The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, CHEER has alerted Canadians to the hazards of lawn and garden pesticides and the safe, effective alternatives that now exist. It has also taught nurses and doctors how to make hospitals and medical clinics more environmentally-friendly. Finally, it has shown the public the advantages of organic agriculture.

The Lake of the Woods Water Sustainability Foundation: 1) Coordinates and provide financial support for bi-national research focused on understanding and resolving water quality problems affecting the Lake of the Woods basin. 2) Is working to develop a water quality sustainability plan that will ensure the long term viability of the Lake of the Woods basin for current and future generations. 3) Provides education about sustainability of Lake of the Woods and it water quality.

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Their mission is to provide opportunities otherwise unavailable to children in Russian orphanages and to young adults who had grown up in the Russian orphanage system.

TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND POST-SECONDARY STUDY TO ACADEMICALLY GIFTED HAITIAN STUDENTS, WHO OTHERWISE COULD NOT ATTEND SCHOOL, IN THE HOPES OF PREPARING THESE STUDENTS FOR PROFESSIONAL CAREERS IN HAITI.

Provides assistance to Discount Tire Co employees and/or their immediate families who incur expenses, damages and/or losses as a result of natural disasters or other emergency hardships.