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Haiti On The Rise supports the reconstruction and development of structures and programs that benefit those affected by the 2010 Earthquake and recent catastrophes in Haiti. They identify community needs, select projects that meet those needs, and plan for and fund our selections. Their extensive work is focused in the areas of education, healthcare, sustainable housing, and pastoral endeavors. They aim to improve people’s lives and transform communities.

The New City Institute was established in 1996-97 to replace New City magazine. Its predecessor, City magazine, founded in 1974, offered for many years the only in-depth alternative perspective on urban planning, housing, citizen participation, and sustainability issues in Canada.

The Fauna Foundation is a privately run, government-certified, non-profit organization committed to issues of animal welfare and is currently home to 12 former biomedical laboratory chimpanzees. Adopt-a-Chimp is a fundraising program that raises money for enrichment of their lives.

The Temagami Community Foundation is unique in its powerful advocacy and effective support of quality-of-life initiatives in a rural northern community. Its principal ambition is to identify, sustain, and further the essential character of the community.

The Ottawa River Institute (ORI) is an incorporated, charitable organization based in the Ottawa Valley. ORI’s mission is to foster sustainable communities and ecological integrity in the Ottawa River watershed. Since incorporation in 2001 we've been working to: -Promote and support the wise use of resources -Increase understanding of the ecosystems within our watershed -Enhance appreciation of the Ottawa River watershed as a natural and cultural treasure -Create opportunities for watershed residents to celebrate and be nurtured by the natural beauty around us

The Sharing Farm grows food to feed Richmond families in need. The Farm is run by community members for community members, and is dedicated to providing fresh, healthy, local produce to our less fortunate neighbours. The Sharing Farm operates on a tiny budget, but thanks to the generosity of our over 1,000 yearly volunteers and the devotion of a small core of part-time staff, the Farm is able to provide thousands of pounds of fruits and vegetables every year to community meals throughout the city and the Richmond Food Bank. From a beginning involving collecting surplus fruit to give to the Richmond Food Bank, through growing vegetables on a small scale on donated land, The Sharing Farm Society now cultivates 5 acres between the Farm in Terra Nova Rural Park and our Orchard in south Richmond.

Greening Sacred Spaces (GSS) is a practical program developed by Faith & the Common Good to assist faith communities in greening. We help people of faith live out their calling to heal our planet and seek a sustainable future. We do this by: 1) equipping faith groups with practical roadmaps for increasing energy efficiency in their sanctuaries; 2) providing resources, networks and financial incentives to help faith groups involve their communities in a wide variety of sustainability initiatives; and 3) engaging faith communities in our interfaith support network devoted to dialogue and action around ecological sustainability.

The American Chestnut Foundation has one simple goal: to restore the American chestnut to its native forests. Destroyed by an imported blight many consider the worst environmental disaster of the twentieth century, the American chestnut was virtually eliminated from the eastern hardwood forest between 1904 and 1940. With its loss, wildlife populations plummeted; never to return to former levels. With recent developments in genetics, there is promise that this critically important wildlife food source and timber tree will again become part of our natural heritage. To make this possibility a reality, a group of prominent scientists, in 1983, established the non-profit research-oriented American Chestnut Foundation (TACF). The Foundation's mission is simple: to restore the American chestnut as an integral part of the eastern forest ecosystem. TACF is employing traditional plant breeding techniques, backed by advanced research methods, to develop a blight resistant American chestnut tree. TACF is restoring a species - and in the process, creating a template for restoration of other tree and plant species.

The Edmonton Community Foundation connects passionate donors to charitable organizations delivering programs and services that enhance the quality of life in the communities in which we live, learn, work and play. The Foundation invests donor contributions in perpetuity, creating legacies that positively impact our lives in the areas of the arts and culture, health and wellness, community and social services, education and learning, recreation and the environment. Grants are distributed in a way that is flexible, creative and responsive. We respond to the wishes of our donors as well as the needs and opportunities in our community; together we develop strategic priorities towards lasting solutions.

The Society operates the Seymour River Fish Hatchery and Education Centre which is located on the Seymour River just below the Seymour Falls Dam in North Vancouver, BC. In 1961, the construction of the Seymour Falls Dam removed access to 60% of the river from migrating salmon but more importantly has also resulted in the loss of 90% of the original spawning habitat. To mitigate this effect, the Society has been instrumental in the creation of new spawning, wintering and rearing habitat along much of the lower river. The Society supplements Seymour stocks of fish through rearing and releasing Steelhead Trout, Coho, Chum, Chinook and Pink salmon. Since 2005, we have been especially involved in research projects involving radio tracking adult Steelhead and looking at early marine survival of Steelhead smolts that are migrating to the ocean.

Mascall Dance has been creating original contemporary dance for 25 years. We tour across Canada as well as internationally.

The Tynehead Hatchery is operated by the Serpentine Enhancement Society, a non-profit volunteer society in partnership with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Metro Vancouver Regional District. Education is an important part of our mandate, and the hatchery is involved with students of all levels in Surrey Schools. The Society was formed in 1985 and built the hatchery in 1987. Members of the society participate in a variety of activities centering around the rearing of young salmon and protecting the Serpentine watershed. Th hatchery raises four different species of salmon; Chinook, Chum, Coho and lately Steelhead. The work of the volunteers has been very successful in that a great number of spawners of all four species are returning every fall.