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The Oldman Watershed Council, or OWC, is a community-based, not-for-profit that works with everyone to find practical solutions to environmental challenges that impact us all. People depend on a healthy environment but we also need a healthy economy and we have social and cultural needs too. Everything is connected so we must work together to make trade-offs, solve problems, plan for the future and have the quality of life we want right now. It takes time and effort to work collaboratively but OWC is building a new way of managing our water and land where we all do our part, work together and think long term. We believe it's worth the investment.

Create food security by educating underserved communities on how to use Regenerative Climate Smart Agriculture to replace carbon emitting farming and reforestation practices. Focus on training women and youth on sustainable farming practices to help create long-lasting livelihoods. Reduce the importation of foreign food and increase the export of healthier organically grown food. Collaborate with international corporations to help fund the reduction of carbon through Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategies to support underserved farming communities. Reduce crime and poverty by creating opportunities.

The Pregnancy Options & Support Centre is a organization dedicated to showing God's love by meeting the needs of women in crisis by offering support to her and all those involved in the crisis pregnancy. We offer peer-counselling as it pertains to an unplanned pregnancy. Our services include options counselling, pregnancy support, parenting support groups, post-abortion care, post-adoption support,material support, and relationship counselling. We do not recommend or refer for abortion. All services are free of charge to the client with the assurance of confidentiality.

Project TEMBO or 'TEMBO'(Tanzania Education and Micro-Business Opportunity) is a registered Canadian charity that provides funding and support to girls and women pursuing educational and small business goals in the Maasai homeland of rural northern Tanzania. TEMBO'S focus is in the villages of Longido and Kimokouwa in northern Tanzania. Our objectives are to: 1. Enable girls to pursue secondary school education by providing financial assistance and materials. 2. Provide funding for vocational training and for teacher training. 3. Operate a Community Library Program open to all residents in Longido District.

Michigan United Conservation Clubs is the largest statewide conservation organization in the nation. Founded in 1937, our mission is to unite citizens to conserve, protect and enhance Michigan's natural resources and outdoor heritage. This mission drives everything we do as an organization.Our strength is in our membership. We support over 40,000 hunters, anglers, trappers and conservationists and over 200 affiliated local clubs around the state. We were founded in 1937 with a simple purpose: harness the combined strength of Michigan's outdoors community to protect conservation from politics. Since then, we have been the foremost power in Michigan protecting the rights to hunt, fish and trap. Our policies are determined by our members through Michigan's most robust grassroots policy

UNA-Canada strives for a better world. We focus on the UN issues of peace and security, sustainable development, human rights, and global cooperation. We work directly with youth and educators, building the capacity of young Canadians able to effect positive global change. We foster Canadian support for the UN and the values that drive it - freedom, equity, tolerance, non-violence, respect for nature and shared responsibility. We also help define foreign policy priorities for the Canadian Government. OUR FUNDS: General - supports national projects; Membership - is both national and local; Projects - supports specific national projects/programmes; Reserve - invested, providing ongoing national support; Branch - supports local volunteer-driven initiatives.

Safe Workers of Tomorrow provides workplace health and safety information to students at no cost to the school, anywhere in Manitoba. Our presentations range from a one hour general health and safety presentation, to a full day health and safety practicum. Topics covered in the presentations include worker rights and employer responsibilities, hazard recognition and control, health and safety legislation and WHMIS, and injury reporting and the role of the Workers Compensation Board. Presentations are delivered by energetic and knowledgeable SAFE Workers of Tomorrow staff and volunteers who employ a variety of techniques to engage participants and foster student led discussions. Students receive a workplace safety and health resource book and other useful take away items to help them after the presentation is done.

The Clay Elliott Scholarship Foundation is dedicated to helping youth achieve their goals in education. What makes the foundation unique is that it awards scholarships based on the demonstration of the right attitude. At no time are transcripts used to evaluate a student. The Clay Elliott Scholarship Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides scholarships to students who are currently completing high school and are applying for a full-time under-graduate degree, college diploma or trade school certificate at an accredited Canadian post secondary institution. With the help of the local community, over the past five years, the Foundation has provided over $150,000.00 in scholarships to 78 students who have graduated from schools within Northumberland County. We want to keep giving more, please help.

CityReach Care Society offers a range of programs and activities focused on serving the tangible needs of the community(such as our Food for Families, Club Freedom and Out of School Care programs)as well as providing opportunity for personal growth and development. We realize that our community faces some challenging circumstances around the issue of poverty, however, we believe that the human spirit is tenacious and with the right encouragement and support, families can move beyond poverty into a place of prosperity. The dictionary definition of "prosper" is to render successful, to thrive, to make gain, to grow, to increase, to make steady progress, to flourish-essentially it is the opposite of poverty and we are passionately committed to providing programs and activities that will help families and individuals in our community prosper in all areas of life.

Educate the Children (EtC) is a non profit, charitable organization founded in 2004 by a local teacher in London, ON, Canada. The Board of EtC consists of a group of Canadian professionals who believe that Education is a fundamental right of all children and a responsibility that must be shared by all. Our Core Values include: • Knowledge and education • Innovation and creativity • Honesty and transparency • Fairness and equality • Passion for our work • Justice • An overall commitment to leaving the world a better place than we found it. We are strongly committed and dedicated to raising the funds needed to complete our projects. All of our members are volunteers, this helps us to keep our administrative cost to 1%. This means that 99% of every donation goes towards completing our projects in rural Nigeria.

The Fondation De la Visite offers free at-home support to pregnant women and parents of newborn children in the 6 following districts of the Montreal area : Bordeaux-Cartierville, Côte Saint-Luc/Hampstead (territory of the CSSS René-Cassin), Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Lachine/Dorval, Montreal-North and Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. Five objectives lead the preventive action: break the isolation of local families and from abroad, increase parental skills, improve the parent-child relationship, facilitate the integration of immigrant families and ensure the quality and effectiveness of the intervention with the families.

PEDAL’s programs include: • Education and training to ride and repair bicycles • Refurbishing, reusing and recycling bicycles and accessories • Free bikes for people in need • Reaching out to youth, women and marginalized communities • Facilitating pedal powered lifestyles PEDAL’s operations in Vancouver include: • Our Community Bikes! - 3283 Main St – A community bike centre where people repair their own bicycles, bicycle recycling services and training programs • Pedal Depot - 1830 Ontario St – Bicycle recycling services and training programs • Training classes at various local schools.