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Archive for May, 2009

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Up With Women

Up With Women supports programs around housing, safety, and the economic empowerment of women.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

The Unlikely Revolutionary

Vancouver Magazine Profiles Tides Canada’s Vice-Chair Joel Solomon

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Go Campaign Canada Foundation Fund

The Go Campaign Canada Foundation Fund is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of Tanzanian children, rescuing them from poverty and hunger, supporting their health and education, encouraging them to become self-reliant, and empowering them by providing not just care but hope.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Keep a Child Alive Fund

Keep a Child Alive Fund supports children and families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and the developing world by providing life-saving medication, assistance, and orphan care.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Tibetan Nuns Project Fund

Tibetan Nuns Project Fund raises funds for education and support to approximately 500 nuns in five different nunneries in northern India.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Transformation Fund

Transformation Fund supports the creation of unique learning spaces that encourage relational leadership skills and the valuing of our diverse natures and natural equality.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Strachan Hartley Legacy Foundation Fund

Honours Strachan’s life-long goal of making a difference in the world by ensuring that children, youth, and families in areas of the world where living circumstances are difficult are provided with life-enriching athletic, educational, and health opportunities to help them reach their full potential.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

St. Paul’s School Fund

St. Paul’s School Fund was created to support St. Paul’s School to educate young people for lives of purpose and giving back to the community.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

SOLID Fund

SOLID Fund supports community-based grassroots development projects assisting those affected by HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Sojourners Fund

Sojourners Fund supports the mission of Sojourners as a voice of Christian conscience manifested through its magazine and grassroots projects that promote values at the crossroads where faith, politics, and culture meet.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Social Venture Institute Fund

This fund supports Social Ventures Institute (SVI), an annual event that offers mission-based entrepreneurs an opportunity to share challenges with peers in an atmosphere of trust and goodwill.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

SEAS Project Fund

SEAS Project Fund supports the School for Esoteric Studies Inc’s Spiritual Evolution Assessment Scale web launch and subsequent general support.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Room to Read Fund

Room to Read Fund supports an international non-profit organization that is committed to creating long-term solutions to the challenges of illiteracy by intervening early in a child’s life and providing ongoing educational opportunities in communities.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Rideau Institute Research Fund

Rideau Institute Research Fund was created to support a peace and justice research and education project to better inform decision makers, opinion leaders and the public about Canadian policy on national and international issues.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

PowerUP Canada Fund

PowerUP Canada supports Canadians for Climate Leadership, a non-partisan initiative aiming to foster public engagement and awareness about global warming and support balanced and well-informed policy on climate change.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Please Mum Foundation Fund

Please Mum Foundation Fund supports charitable initiatives for children and youth. Please Mum is a Canadian-based company that creates high quality, durable kids clothes.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Pacific Wild Fund

Pacific Wild works with environmental organizations, local communities, educators, businesses, scientists, and a concerned global citizenry to defend wildlife, protect habitat, and ensure that biodiversity protection is at the forefront of land and marine use decisions in Canada’s Pacific Coast.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Oceans Fund

Oceans Fund supports Living Oceans Society’s charitable activities, namely research and education projects that increase public awareness of the problems affecting our oceans and solutions that will ensure our oceans will be healthy for generations to come.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Mirasol Project Fund

The Mirasol Project Fund supports the charitable work of the Mirasol Project Civil Association, which is focused on improving the quality of life of children living in the remote Andes highlands of the Puno region of Peru by providing them the opportunity for education and improved nutrition.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Canopy Fund (Markets Initiative)

The fund was created to support the charitable work of Canopy (formerly Markets Initiative) in safeguarding forests and the environment by harnessing the power of the marketplace and changing business practices. Canopy drives North American demand for green paper products by shifting heavy paper consuming sectors away from unsustainable sources.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Mapendo International Fund

Mapendo International’s charitable work helps to fill the needs of people affected by war and conflict who have fallen through the net of humanitarian assistance.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Light Up the World Fund

Light Up the World Fund supports Light Up The World Foundation (LUTW) – an international humanitarian organization affiliated with the University of Calgary dedicated to illuminating the lives of the world’s poor.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Laura Louie Hope Foundation Fund

Laura Louie Hope Foundation Fund works to provide healthcare and to improve the quality of life of impoverished people in developing countries through community-based grassroots projects.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

LAM Canada Fund

LAM Canada is a group of Canadian women diagnosed with lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) working with their families and friends to support scientific research on LAM.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Kapasseni Society Fund

Kapasseni Society Fund works to improve the quality of life for AIDS orphans in Caia, Mozambique by providing food, clothing, shelter, and education for these children.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Ignite Excellence Foundation Fund

Ignite Excellence Foundation Fund was started by the Ignite Excellence Foundation, whose purpose is to educate and support women in developing countries to lead their families, communities, regions, and countries to equality, which includes a safe and humane living.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Hoops 4 Hope Fund

Hoops 4 Hope (H4H) supports youth and community development in South Africa and Zimbabwe by combining the joy of basketball and soccer with an effective HIV/AIDS prevention and life-skills curriculum.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Hollyhock Scholarship Fund

Hollyhock Scholarship Fund supports individuals wishing to participate in capacity-building and leadership development programs by providing financial assistance scholarships.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Great Bear Rainforest Conservation Campaign Fund

This fund was created to support forest and biodiversity conservation within the Great Bear Rainforest with emphasis on investments in science and stewardship activities in First Nation communities on the coast.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Global Security Institute Fund

Global Security Institute Fund supports international civil society efforts that advance the cause of the global elimination of nuclear weapons.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Give Girls A Chance Fund

Give Girls A Chance supports educational opportunities for girls in Canada and around the world.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Genocide Intervention Network Fund

Genocide Intervention Network Fund aims to increase public awareness about genocide and support government policies, organizations, and initiatives designed to help prevent and stop genocide.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

ForestEthics Charitable Initiatives Fund

ForestEthics supports protection of endangered forests by transforming the paper and wood industries in North America and by supporting forest communities in the development of conservation-based economies.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

FAIR (Fund for Action on Investment Responsibility) Fund

Begun by Social Investment Organization (SIO) in Toronto, the fund supports research and education on public policy for socially responsible investment.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

The Funding Network – Toronto

The Funding Network – Toronto (TFN – Toronto) is the first North American chapter of a giving circle based on a very successful giving model started in London, England.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Environmental Education Outreach Fund

This fund supports outdoor environmental education, bringing instructors and trainers to areas with limited infrastructure or means for hands-on learning, and building capacity with students and community.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

The Drug Policy Reform Fund

This fund supports Canadian charities working on diverse aspects of drug policy reform: harm reduction, treatment, policy alternatives, legal aid, and education.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Dignitas International Fund

This fund supports a project dedicated to providing dignity for children, youth, and families affected by HIV/AIDS in resource-poor settings.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Chordoma Foundation Cancer Research Fund

This fund supports the mission to develop effective treatments and ultimately a cure for chordoma, while improving the diagnosis, treatment, and quality of life for people affected by this devastating bone cancer.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

CHOICE Humanitarian Fund

This fund supports the charitable work of CHOICE Humanitarian, an organization dedicated to ending poverty by promoting sustainable development and self-reliance in communities throughout the world.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Charlie Russell Bear Coexistence Fund

This fund supports Charlie Russell’s conservation work on behalf of grizzly bears.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Cortes Ecoforestry Fund

This fund supports the charitable work of the Cortes Ecoforestry Society, a grassroots organization that has developed one of Canada’s few ecosystem-based community forest plans.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

CANDi Cats and Dogs International Fund

This fund supports CANDi, an organization devoted to reducing pet over-population through the establishment and support of free spay and neuter clinics and educational programs around the world.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

CW (Cassils and Wettstein) Asia Fund

The CW Asia Fund supports selected NGOs in Southeast Asia that provide education, improved health care, agriculture, and hope to children and their families.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

CANRAD Fund

CANRAD sponsors young African women in Rarieda, Kenya to be future leaders through education.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Canodia Fund – Canadians Helping Cambodia’s Youth

Canodia’s current focus is on helping children who are working and living at a garbage dump in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Canadians for Popular Education in Health (EPES) Fund

Canadians for Popular Education in Health supports the work of Chile’s EPES Foundation in promoting health and improved quality of life through community capacity-building.

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Canadian Boreal Fund

This fund supports the goals of the Boreal Forest Conservation Framework established by the Canadian Boreal Initiative — an alliance of conservation organizations, First Nations, industry, and others committed to safeguarding Canada’s vast boreal forests and wetlands.

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Ashoka Canada Fund

The Ashoka Canada Fund supports Ashoka Fellows – leading social entrepreneurs who use first-class entrepreneurial skill, creativity, and innovative thinking to solve the world’s most intractable social problems.

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

ASEM Canada Fund

This fund supports orphans, victims of poverty, and HIV/AIDS infected children and young adults helped by ASEM Mozambique.

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Angkor Hospital for Children Fund

This fund supports the work of Angkor Hospital for Children which provides ongoing pediatric healthcare, education, and outreach efforts.

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

African Rural Development Fund

The African Rural Development Fund supports Uganda Rural Development and Training (URDT), which addresses the root causes of poverty, poor health, and lack of development in a poor district of Uganda.

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

AIDS-Free World Fund

This fund supports the charitable work and mission of AIDS-Free World in speaking up and speaking out for a more just, urgent and effective global response to HIV/AIDS.

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Invasive Species – The Target for Biodiversity Day May 22

Island Conservation removed rats from “Rat Island” to bring endangered seabirds back from the brink of extinction….read more about their incredible work in preserving biodiversity.

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Hidden Camera Captures Grizzly Behaviour in the Wild

Tides Canada fundholder Pacific Wild films a male Grizzly marking his territory within British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest.

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Manager Alert – May 26 Workshop on Effective Facilitation

Sustainability Network in Toronto offering a training workshop for individuals who wish to learn how to facilitate effectively – all welcome.

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Slow Death by Rubber Duck Book Launch – Huge Success

Authors Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie launched their book in Vancouver on May 19th at the Tides Renewal Centre. Their week long experiment documented in the book has attracted a lot of media attention.

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

BC Wine supports Tides Canada and the Great Bear Rainforest

New BC Wine Supports Ecosystem Conservation WHITE BEAR Wine to Aid Great Bear Rainforest Preservation

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Pocket Guide to Eating Sushi

A pocket sized guide to eating sushi has been published by Living Oceans Society, a clever way to make sure your bento box is better for the ocean.

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

PETA Celebrates EU Ban on Seal Products

EU ban on seal products motivates PETA to continue their push to stop the Canadian seal hunt.

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