PROJECTS

• Reel Youth, which teaches leadership through film making and multimedia, produced over 200 films made by marginalized youth across BC.
• With support from ForestEthics Canada and the Headwaters Initiative Project, First Nations and local communities secured moratoriums on fish farm development and drilling for coal bed methane around British Columbia’s pristine sacred headwaters.
• 6,000 people in cities all over North America engaged in Jane’s Walks to rediscover and learn to shape their urban neighborhoods.
• Working with Canopy, Canadian Geographic produced its July edition on paper made from wheat straw waste, and the Globe and Mail became the first North American daily to develop an Ancient Forest Friendly™ paper policy.
• The Contact Project released research on the importance of developing a personal development learning space for social change activists in Canada.

CANADA

• The HIPPY program at the Working Women Community Centre enabled low-income immigrant women in Toronto to maximize the educational potential of their young children.
• A resolution to ban cosmetic pesticides was passed and model pesticide legislation drafted in British Columbia because of the work of Toxic Free Canada.
• A report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) brought to light systematic violations of employment as well as health and safety standards for farm workers in British Columbia.
• St. Clare’s Multifaith Housing continued to develop another 200 units of mixed-income affordable housing in Toronto.

INTERNATIONAL

• CW (Cassils Wettstein) Asia Fund raised over $1,000,000 to provide food, medicine and emergency supplies to isolated communities devastated by the Myanmar Cyclone.
• The Tom and Gail Kaneb Family Foundation supported Root Capital in pioneering financing for grassroots businesses in rural areas of developing countries.
• Room to Read worked with 2,200 communities in eight countries to build schools, establish libraries and provide long-term scholarships.
• The Corridor of the Clouds Fund enabled the efforts of the Nectandra Institute in Costa Rica to restore the montane cloud forest ecosystem through education, research, and watershed stewardship.