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USAY is an organization that is based a peer mentorship model. We are 100% governed by urban Aboriginal youth to create an organization that is for youth by youth. We are, therefore, uniquely positioned to offer programs that directly impact Aboriginal youth because we are in direct contact with our target demographic. Our programs range from recreation and health and wellness to arts and expression.

To provide a home for abused, unwanted, and orphaned children and animals. To provide an education for a culturally diverse group of children: school, improved social skills, and emotional stability are part of our plan to help break the cycle of poverty and destructive behavior. To provide an awareness through our rehab/education programs which emphasizes that all living things have value no matter how small or seemingly insignificant. When we as a society can recognize this fact we will begin to win the battles for conservation and preservation. To provide God's unconditional love and care for humans and animals who have special needs in their lives, whether mental, physical, or emotional.

Founded in 2004, Quail Springs is a leading educational non-profit that resides on a 450-acre permaculture demonstration site on the traditional homelands of the Chumash people in Cuyama Valley, California. Our mission is to empower students of all ages and backgrounds with knowledge, skills, and inspiration essential to cultivating ecological and social health in a rapidly changing world. Quail Springs teaches strategies and techniques instrumental for designing and building resilient, affordable, and carbon-neutral housing as well as ecologically sound and sovereign food systems. We are connected to an expansive local and international network of leading-edge practitioners. We envision an equitable global community that shares the bounty of this living planet and the responsibility to tend to its health. We believe the most effective way to foster positive change is through our relationships, both with one another and our ecologies.

Core Value: Justice Bountiful Cities is committed to promoting an environment of equitable Social Justice by honoring and practicing cooperation and mutual respect, promoting jobs in urban agriculture that support a profitable living, promoting access to healthy food for people of all economic means while working to protect and improve environmental health for soil, water, air and community. Core Value:Community Healthy communities consist of shared and diverse cultures, cooperation, safety, support, health, respect, trust, self-reliance, and love within and among individuals, families, and groups. Bountiful Cities is committed to fostering healthy human relationships by nurturing these community values. Core Value: Education Education is a lifelong process involving the shared exchange of knowledge and experience. Bountiful Cities is committed to supporting this shared exchange by role modeling and providing inspiring events, programming, and experiential education.

OUR FUNDING FOCUS Skill Development & Qualified Coaching Developing fundamental player skills at all amateur hockey levels…Providing qualified community based coaching programs and resources. Accessibility & Diversity Supporting continued growth of female and sledge hockey…Recruiting new groups to the game… Providing underprivileged youth with the chance to play. Health & Wellness Promoting lifelong health and wellness for participants…Building life skills based on our core values of respect, responsibility, and pure enjoyment of the game. Athlete & Alumni Support Preparing amateur players to represent Canada in international competition… Recognizing, preserving, and connecting Canadians to our rich hockey heritage. Next Generation Programs Addressing issues related to our aging hockey facility infrastructure and lack of new capacity…Leading edge initiatives aimed at keeping Canada the world leader in hockey.

The Friends of the Tay Watershed (FoTW) is a non-profit association, dedicated to preserving and enhancing the health of the Tay River Watershed. It was founded and obtained incorporated non-profit charitable status in 2001. The Tay is a magnificent tributary of the Rideau Canal system in eastern Ontario, covering 95 kilometers and encompassing 46 lakes and numerous streams and wetlands. The FoTW involves landowners, water users, and other interested parties in programs to improve the health of the Tay River Watershed. It works to: 1. educate the public and watershed stakeholders on the benefits of maintaining and improving wildlife habitat, recreation, and water quality and quantity in the Tay Watershed; 2. carry forward the recommendations of the Tay River Watershed Management Plan; 3. promote the coordination of water protection and improvement activities from the range of organizations involved in watershed management. Please visit our website at www.tayriver.org

Pamoja Tujenge means “Let’s Build Together” in Swahili. Pamoja was founded in 2005 and has brought people together from Canada, the United States, Europe and Africa to work with the residents of three small rural villages in Katanga Province in southern DRC. Pamoja's current focus is on building and staffing a health and education centre, and operating a mobile health unit for the Katebi villages and surrounding areas. Our first step is to build a multipurpose house which will be a guest house for visiting doctors and volunteers, as well as a temporary medical facility until the full centre is built. Funds required for building and staffing the multipurpose house: $30,000 for one year. Funds required for building and operations of the complete centre for 3 years: $275,000 The design for the centre has been completed through a partnership with Ryerson University's department of Architectural Science, and Arup Toronto, an engineering consultancy.

Canine Action Project is dedicated to achieving healthy, safe communities for people and their dogs. By helping communities achieve balance between dog and community health. We facilitate a variety of programs which includes, on site spay and neuter clinics, programs to balance the health of the people and their dogs and humane education programs used in school and community programs. Humane education teaches people a ethical balanced sensitivity for all living things. Smaller programs are also facilitated which includes dwellings for dogs. This program provides dog houses to owners who don't have shelter for their dogs. It may include building houses through community or school programs. We also facilitate a dog food program which provides people with dog food on a periodic basis whom have taken the initiative to get their dogs spayed and neutered. C.A.P believes education is the foundation for change.

Our goal is to bring tree equity to communities that lack natural tree canopy by establishing tiny native forests in and around the Chicago metropolitan area.​We use the Miyawaki method of tree planting to bring the benefits of forests to more communities. Our goal is to improve tree equity as defined by American Forests.​Everyone deserves trees and the health, climate and social benefits they provide.

The purpose of The Fredericton Regional Family Resource Centre is to be the hub of a support network for families with children six and under. The FRFRC aims to connect families with community services, resources and extends to distinct outreach sites in our region. Its main goals are to enhance positive parenting skills, to improve the health and safety of preschool children, and to provide information, support and referral services to parents.

CCAMRE'S MANDATE IS TO SHARE OUR SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, FUNDS AND OTHER RESOURCES TO WORK IN AREAS OF: DISASTER RELIEF, EDUCATION, HEALTH AND AWARENESS BUILDING, MEDICAL AID, PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. WE HAVE VARIOUS FUNDRAISING EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR TO ENABLE US TO CONTINUE OUR WORK IN GUATEMALA. PLEASE SEE OUR WEBSITE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.

We are people with Type 1 diabetes who share a vision: To create a culture of support and engagement in diabetes self-management through peer-based experiential diabetes education, physical activity and outdoor adventure pursuits. By creating a community that is motivating, supporting and inspiring individuals to take charge of their health today, we are helping to improve the quality of life for people with diabetes now and tomorrow.