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The National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI) is a charitable, not-for-profit organization with headquarters in Winnipeg. We are Canada’s national film, television and digital media training school for writers, directors and producers. We believe that the best way to learn is by doing. Our market-driven courses have led to employment and successful careers for graduates by giving them a competitive edge. According to our 2013 alumni survey, 87% of respondents are working in the film and TV industry.

Over 25 years ago a dedicated group of Aboriginal women recognized the need for a meeting place in Toronto for Aboriginal women to share resources, support one another, and practice their traditional ways. Today, Native Women’s Resource Centre of Toronto (NWRCT) is an award winning charity that continues to honour the vision of our founders as the only organization dedicated to serving all Aboriginal women and their children in the Greater Toronto Area. As a registered charity, we offer life-enhancing resources, cultural ceremonies and teachings, skill development, and programs to build our collective capacity and celebrate our cultures. Our programs fall under five broad categories: Housing & Advocacy, Youth, Parenting, Employment & Education and Culture & Spirit. Our work and direction is guided by the Seven Grandfather teachings: Wisdom, Love, Respect, Bravery, Honesty, Humility, and Truth.

- The agency provides rent-geared-to-income housing; both shared and individual units - Support & Housing - Halton provides case management and community support for persons in its housing program and in the community - The agency offers Consumer Initiative programs, offering education, advocacy and peer-to-peer training and workshops.

Camp Outlook is an Ontario charitable corporation devoted to providing at-risk and underprivileged youth from the Kingston area between 13 and 17 with an opportunity to experience wilderness camping.

Puppetmongers was established in 1974 by the sister and brother team of Ann Powell and David Powell. Between 1974 and 1989, we toured our shows for family audiences extensively to most major Canadian and US centres as well as in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany and Iran. Since 1990 we have focused on working nearer home, with the addition of short tours to festivals and theatre runs further afield. We create larger, more theatrical shows, involving many artists and self-produce our works in theatres. We have ventured into puppetry for adult audiences with several productions and work with other artists, such as on in composer R. Murray Schafer's Palace of the Cinnabar Phoenix. Most recently we mounted Charles Dickens’ Hard Times. We founded The School of Puppetry in 1996 with courses for adults, as a vehicle for disseminating our vision. This season the course is being incorporated into Humber College’s new Puppet Intensive Program.

Rossbrook was founded in 1976. It is a neighbourhood centre for children, youth and young adults. Rossbrook offers a constant alternative to the destructive environment of the streets. Rossbrook employs the principles of self-help and self-referral. The staff are regular attenders who live in the area and are interested in building better lives for themselves, their neighbours and their friends. Recreation and leisure activities are critical to the full development of children and youth. They provide positive outlets for creative, young energy. The children and youth initiate and determine all programs offered. Programming is flexible and unfolds naturally as needs and desires are expressed. Sports, cultural activities, music, art, tournaments and van rides are popular. Neighbourhood school gyms are important resources.

Sherbrooke is like any small village in Saskatchewan where everyday life goes on around us. We are home to 270 residents, 100 Community Day Program participants, 500 volunteers, families, friends, students, and over 500 staff. Ours is a community of people with normal aspirations, dreams and a desire to live life to the fullest. At Sherbrooke, residents work, play, worship, paint, garden, volunteer. Come on in, browse around and visit with some of the people in our community. We have lots to tell you about our lives.

The mandate of the Foundation of the Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital Foundation is to offer financial support to the hospital so that it may fulfil its mission.

Our two major programs provide hope for the future through the support of MS research into the cause, treatment and cure of the disease and hope for today through our many services that assist people with MS and their families. Eighty-three per cent of the MS Society net revenue is devoted to program areas: MS research, services for people with MS and their families, MS clinics, social action, public education and awareness, and chapter development.

We began caring for seniors and enabling seniors to care for themselves in 1983. We continue to do so today as an accredited, not-for-profit community support service agency in Toronto by offering a wide range of practical and low-cost services to seniors and their caregivers. Our services help seniors stay safe, connected, and live as independently as possible. They also prevent premature on inappropriate institutionalization. We supply services regardless of ability, race, religion, ethnic origin, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, or gender identity and are committed to LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) inclusiveness. Our services include: Adult Day Programs • Caregiver Education and Support • Community Dining • Dementia Care Residence • Friendly Visiting and Security Check • Health and Wellness Programs • House Calls • Home Care and Respite • Meals on Wheels • Social Work • Supportive Housing •Transportation and Toronto Ride

St. Clement’s School is a leading Toronto independent girls’ school with an enrollment of 470 students spanning Grades 1 to 12. Founded on the principle of academic excellence, our small school size allows for a strong spirit of community, a vast number of student opportunities, and a strong support model for high-achieving girls.

Our role: to lend an understanding and welcoming ear. Our present-day society creates numerous conditions for psychological suffering that can lead to mental health problems, violent behavior or suicide. By providing respectful, empathetic and non-judgmental listening, Tel-Aide’s volunteer listeners allow all those who need to talk to express themselves in complete confidence and facilitate the callers’ process of finding personal solutions. The gift of listening At the heart of Tel-Aide’s mission is the generous commitment of its volunteers. Up to now, more than 4,000 trained volunteers have provided a caring ear to those who call our service. Listening, not just hearing Tel-Aide’s volunteers follow a thorough training program based on the principles of active listening, inspired by American psychotherapist Carl Rogers (1902-1987). Respect, empathy and authenticity are the three key concepts of active listening.