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Our programs and publications include: TD Canadian Children's Book Week, the largest celebration of Canadian books for young people in Canada; Best Books for Kids & Teens, our semi-annual selection guide to the best Canadian children’s books, magazines, audio & video; Canadian Children's Book News, our quarterly magazine featuring reviews of recommended books, author and illustrator interviews and profiles of publishers and bookstores; our six major book awards include the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, the John Spray Mystery Award and the Monica Hughes Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy; resource libraries of Canadian children's books and reference materials in Toronto, Edmonton, Halifax, Vancouver and Winnipeg; specialized reading lists and an information packed website - www.bookcentre.ca.

The ELF provides training, materials and small grants to community organizations and schools across Canada in order to assist them in the development of children's literacy initiatives. ELF-supported programs have served over 13 000 children, predominantly from First Nations, new Canadian and low-income communities. We believe that literacy is the birthright of all Canadians. ELF-supported communities often report illiteracy rates of over 90%! With our support, programs serving children and youth at risk, have dramatically increased literacy rates.

"WE WILL EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN. WE WILL DO IT ONE BY ONE... STEP BY STEP." As a young Cambodian woman, PONHEARY LY survived the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge only to endure ensuing decades of occupation, civil war and poverty. Within the suffering she and her family experienced, she found a great compassion for the children of Cambodia -- the forgotten ones, the disenfranchised ones, the ones who without help have little hope of escaping the cycle of poverty brought by decades of genocide and war. PONHEARY LY has made it her life's mission to locate and be of service to the children of the rural poor in the villages of Siem Reap Province. The Ponheary Ly Foundation Canada is dedicated to supporting Ponheary's vision and efforts. Step by step. One by one.

THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF OTTAWA is a registered non-profit charity that raises private funds to help students in need and at risk of school failure, attending schools in the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. Children cannot learn if their basic needs are not met. Children come to school hungry every day. Many of our students face life challenges that place them at risk of school failure. Over 25% of Ottawa's children are living in poverty. We provide funding in emergency situations, for food and clothing, or medication, when a family is in financial crisis. The Foundation is managed by a volunteer Board of Directors made up of business, education and community leaders, and chaired by Mr. Jim Orban, Publisher of the Ottawa Citizen. For more details, please visit our website: www.ocdsb.ca/foundation

The Academy for Learning for Islam (ALI) is a non-profit registered charitable organization based in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. It aims at advancing religious and educational values of Islam according to the Shi'ah Ithna 'Ashari school of thought. It maintains a religious school of instruction for children, youths and adults. The Academy also provides counseling services and Islamic outreach programs to people experiencing religious and social problems.

Since 1950,the Junior League of Calgary (JLC) has been working to bridge the gap between society's needs and existing community resources. The result is a legacy of training, leadership and voluntarism that has made a difference in Calgary. Past projects include the launch of Calgary Reads, Junior Chefs, Kids Help Phone, and Volunteer Calgary. Current projects promote healthy and active living for youth. We believe that education and support for youth is critical in building self-esteem and reversing the cycle of poverty. The Teen Tote project collects gifts and hygiene items for teenagers who would otherwise be missed during the Christmas season. Kids in the Kitchen is an international education initiative to empower children to lead healthier lives through hands-on activities related to nutrition, food preparation and physical fitness. Kids in Motion and Kids in the Arts introduce preschool concepts to at-risk children using story-telling, crafts, dancing, music and games.

Mission statement The mission of Plant-for-the-Planet is to empower children and young people worldwide to engage in global solutions to fight the climate crisis. Our core focus is on the planting of trees as a generation-spanning, peace building activity, providing hope and buying us time to reach net-zero emissions. To that end, Plant-for-the-Planet is supporting global reforestation and ecosystem restoration efforts. Description Our adventures began in 2007, when at the end of a school presentation 9-years-old Felix Finkbeiner called on children of the world to plant a million trees in each country on Earth. This idea soon became an initiative backed by thousands. Plant-for-the-Planet was born! In the following years, Felix attended major conferences and events to invite children from all over the world to join his initiative as Climate Justice Ambassadors and to mobilize people around the globe to plant trees. In 2011, Felix spoke at the United Nations in New York, and called mankind for planting of a trillion trees. Only a few month later, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) handed over to us their Billion Tree Campaign - and with it the official World Tree Counter. This Billion Tree Campaign we soon expanded to become the Trillion Tree Campaign. Our claim is “Stop talking. Start planting.” In 2015, Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation in collaboration with Plant-for-the-Planet A.C. in Mexico started its own restoration site on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Here we contribute to the global goal by planting the trees donated to us and thus restore degraded forests in one of the most threatened ecosystems of the world. As we embark on the restoration journey ourselves we can also provide all organizations worldwide with adequate support based as well on science and experience. Our vision and goals Plant-for-the-Planet has two central objectives: to support ecosystem restoration efforts globally as well as educate and prepare today’s children and youth to face the challenges of the climate crisis. For the children and young people it is about nothing less than their future on this planet. To support restoration and reforestation, Plant-for-the-Planet has developed different technical tools. One of these is the Plant-for-the-Planet platform, which favors the collaboration of people worldwide by helping restoration organizations throughout the world to get funds to finance the work of restoration in their countries. A spearheading innovation is the TreeMapper App. This App allows restoration organizations throughout the world to document and monitor their work directly on the field. All collected data are matched on the Plant-for-the-Planet platform so that the donors can track the progress of planting just from the sofa. To empower children and youth worldwide to make themselves heard Plant-for-the-Planet supports them in multiple ways. First of all with the Plant-for-the-Planet Academies, one-day-workshops during which children learn from their peers and train to become Climate Justice Ambassadors in their turn. In these academies, the children experience in a vivid way how the climate crisis threatens their future and the lives of people around the world. In working groups, they develop initial ideas for their actions they can take to mobilize for their future.. This is aimed at familiarizing them with social and climate justice, as well as their own civic duty. To date, 1,656 Academies in 75 countries have taken place and 92,837Climate Justice Ambassadors have been trained. The Ambassadors can then further their education and involvement by following online-workshops offered by Plant-for-the-Planet and held by individual experts and coaches or e-learning materials. We also enable our Climate Justice Ambassadors to hold speeches at events to raise awareness about the climate crisis and inform others about the mission of Plant-for-the-Planet. The impact of COVID-19 The global pandemic has had an impact on our activities. While our Plant-for-the-Planet international offices employees were able to work from home - thanks to digital communication tools and well prepared workflows - in Mexico our forest restoration team cannot. However, we are happy to report that we are able to continue working on our planting site and thanks to the implementation of measures ensuring the safety of our workers. Regarding our Academies, we had to move to an online format to ensure the safety of the participants and their family. Transparency and monitoring If you wish to learn more about how our organization operates, you can find our latest reports on our website.

Our mission is to support children and adults to develop deeper relationships with nature, self, and community through long-term nature connection mentoring and community-based wilderness rites of passage. Our vision is to help raise young people who are ready to meet life's challenges and be of service in the world: youth who have a positive sense of themselves as young women and men; who know what their gifts are; feel deeply connected with nature; have strong community support; and are full of resilience and vitality.

In operation for over sixty years in Calgary, Alliance Française offers of Calgary a variety of French educational, training and cultural programs for Francophones, those who wish to learn French or Francophiles who have a love for all things France. AFC owns Calgary's most comprehensive French language library, with a growing range of offerings including books, music and film/video. Children's programs are available as well. Alliance Française of Calgary is associated with the international Alliance Française organization based in France.

Our program is dedicated to respecting and responding to the individual needs of the child. The environment and adults will provide children with a variety of opportunities to learn through their play and interactions. Each child grows and develops at different rates and styles of learning; therefore, our program is based on the observed needs, cultural differences and uniqueness of each child with the support of parents and community. Our program recognizes that families and parents are the primary caregivers in each child’s life and is committed to respecting the values and opinions of parents, while ensuring the child’s emotional, physical, social, creative and intellectual developmental needs are met.

The Montessori School of Cambridge was established in 1972 and offers a variety of classes for Toddlers, Preschool, JK, SK. Improved facilities would certainly complement the quality of our teachers, curriculum and learning materials and allow for growth. Montessori education is based on the work of Italian physician, Dr. Maria Montessori, whose research in the first half of the twentieth century gave birth to an innovative educational system that has grown worldwide. In January 2007, there was an international celebration of the centenary of her first class in Rome. Dr. Montessori developed a philosophy based on the natural development of children and their intrinsic desire to explore, discover and learn from the world around them.

1 To encourage and support the goals and objectives of Presqu’ile Provincial Park and its mandate by: a. providing social, economic and physical support for the Park’s activities by raising funds to supplement and compliment Park programs; b. promoting and organizing special events compatible with the Park’s approved objectives and interpretive themes; undertaking projects and initiatives. 2 To develop programs which will further awareness, understanding and appreciation of the Park’s natural, historic and cultural resources. With a priority given to children 3 To operate sales outlet(s), develop high quality Park-specific, theme-related items and materials for distribution and/or sale to help fund programs. 4 To further the objectives of the Corporation by accepting donations, bequests and other gifts. 5 To fund 6-8 students per year to deliver educational programmes 6 To encourage a broadly based membership meeting the objectives of the corporation