When you donate to Tides Canada, you support exciting and innovative charities and projects in Canada and around the world. Donate online, via cheque or using other options, by clicking on the name of a fund or project listed below. You can also search by geographic region or your area of interest.
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.
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.
This fund supports the work of Angkor Hospital for Children which provides ongoing pediatric healthcare, education, and outreach efforts.
Artbridges strives to alleviate poverty by bridging and advocating for people who want to make a difference through community arts in under-resourced communities.
This fund supports orphans, victims of poverty, and HIV/AIDS infected children and young adults helped by ASEM Mozambique.
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.
This fund supports wilderness-based experiences for youth at risk and other disadvantaged individuals and communities.
Banyan Youth Initiatives is a grassroots youth-led collaboration that is committed to education, leadership development, and skill building for at-risk youth to build cost effective sustainable communities.
BC Marine Conservation Analysis helps advance marine planning initiatives in British Columbia by identifying potential areas of high conservation value.
The Big Wild Fund is a joint initiative between MEC (Mountain Equipment Coop) and CPAWS (the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society) that supports wilderness conservation across Canada.
This fund supports the Cambodian Landmine Relief Facility and its humanitarian outreach projects.
CBAN promotes food sovereignty and democratic decision-making on science and technology issues, genetic engineering in particular, in order to protect the integrity of the environment, health, food, and the livelihoods of people in Canada and around the world.
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.
Canadian Youth Climate Coalition is composed of leading youth organizations and individuals from across Canada that tackle the biggest challenge of our times, the emerging climate crisis.
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.
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.
Canodia’s current focus is on helping children who are working and living at a garbage dump in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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.
CANRAD sponsors young African women in Rarieda, Kenya to be future leaders through education.
Capacity Waterloo Region works to enhance the effectiveness and capacity of non-profit organizations in the Waterloo, Ontario region.
The Centre for City Ecology works to further the ideas and legacy of Jane Jacobs, renowned urbanist and author. The Centre’s goals and objectives are to increase ‘urban literacy,’ and to promote civic engagement, community leadership, and local involvement with city-building processes.
This fund supports Charlie Russell’s conservation work on behalf of grizzly bears.
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.
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.
The Contact Project supports leadership development in the environmental and social change communities.
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.
The CW Asia Fund supports selected NGOs in Southeast Asia that provide education, improved health care, agriculture, and hope to children and their families.
The Dadiya Rural Development Fund supports the sustainable rural development of the Dadiya people in the Gombe State of Nigeria.
This fund supports a new generation of leaders and researchers by providing accessible and practical learning and development experiences, respectful of traditional ways in a bush environment to create dynamic, sustainable and self-determining communities where human capacity is rooted in indigenous knowledge and values.
This fund supports a project dedicated to providing dignity for children, youth, and families affected by HIV/AIDS in resource-poor settings.
East Scarborough Storefront is a partnership of more than 35 community groups and social service agencies working together to create a thriving community in East Scarborough, Ontario.
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.
This fund supports infrastructure projects, educational opportunities and improvement of the health and well-being of Cameroonian Youth
Begun by Social Investment Organization (SIO) in Toronto, the fund supports research and education on public policy for socially responsible investment.
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.
FLOW strives to ensure an effective and sustainable Canada-wide water strategy.
The Forum on Privatization and the Public Domain seeks to create a public forum on the relationship between private property, various forms of commons, the public domain and public good, as well as the consequences of current efforts of privatization on the public domain and public good.
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.
Give Girls A Chance supports educational opportunities for girls in Canada and around the world.
Global Reef Initiative conducts research and education on coral reef conservation. This project focuses on building awareness of the importance and present condition of our planet’s coral reefs.
Global Security Institute Fund supports international civil society efforts that advance the cause of the global elimination of nuclear weapons.
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.
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.
GreenThink believes that education is key to building the attitudes and behaviours needed to create a sustainable future.
The Halifax Initiative is a coalition of development, environment, faith-based, human rights, and labour organizations working for global economic democracy and justice.
The Headwaters Initiative Project works to create a more informed and connected community engaged in the conservation of some of British Columbia’s great rivers.
Hollyhock Scholarship Fund supports individuals wishing to participate in capacity-building and leadership development programs by providing financial assistance scholarships.
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.
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.
Island Conservation Canada is dedicated to preventing extinctions and protecting natural ecological and evolutionary processes on islands.
This fund supports programs which sponsor a biennial lecture and seminar on the application of economic theories to issues of poverty, disadvantage, and social justice.
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.
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.
LAM Canada is a group of Canadian women diagnosed with lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) working with their families and friends to support scientific research on LAM.
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.
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.
Lingana brings training tools and sustainable livelihood skills to youths and their communities in conflict areas, empowering the next generations to coexist with peace and understanding.
LFP is an award-winning non-profit organization that nurtures regional food economies across Canada by certifying farmers and processors for local sustainable food production and helping them connect with buyers. We also educate about the environmental, social and economic benefits of local sustainable food systems, helping to ensure food security for future generations.
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.
The purpose of this fund is to treat conditions for which conventional medicines provide limited relief by developing alternative prescription medicines; to cure many thousands of people by building a network of clinics where treatments can be provided; and to educate the public honestly about the risks and benefits of psychedelics and marijuana.
The Media Democracy Project works nationally, regionally and locally to support a diverse public service-oriented media system through public education and civic engagement.
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.
Located in the South Okanagan, BC, the Naramata Conservation Initiative works to conserve and encourage sustainable management of environmentally-sensitive wilderness areas and heritage legacies.
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.
Oceans Initiative conducts research projects on whales, dolphins, and other marine wildlife in British Columbia and around the world.
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.
Pathfinder International’s mission is to ensure that people everywhere have the right and opportunity to live a healthy reproductive life.
PEACE Mexico supports working hand in hand with communities in Mexico to provide holistic education combined with community action programs that enable people to improve their quality of life as well as their financial stability.
This fund was created by PETA to stop animal abuse and suffering on factory and fur farms, in the entertainment industry and in vivisection, and to promote compassion, the ethical treatment of all animals, and education.
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.
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.
Project Enlighten provides educational and humanitarian programs and projects for the children and people of Southeast Asia, with primary focus on school-building projects and scholarship funding.
This fund supports RAN’s mission to protect forests, their inhabitants, and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, civic engagement, and community education.
The Rainforest Solutions Project is a joint initiative of ForestEthics, Greenpeace Canada, and Sierra Club of BC. RSP promotes conservation options and economic alternatives to industrial logging on British Columbia’s Central Coast, North Coast and Haida Gwaii.
Reel Youth encourages and empowers young people through the medium of film.
The Remember Our Sisters Everywhere (ROSE) project works to prevent violence against women by creating a virtual community to facilitate the use and further creation of women’s memorials, thereby nurturing a cultural shift towards the remembrance and valuing of the women we have lost to violence.
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.
Rivers Without Borders protects the diversity and abundance of fish and wildlife species and their habitat in the transboundary watersheds of Canada and southeast Alaska.
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.
Round River Canada is dedicated to conservation strategies that preserve and restore wild places; it strives to develop and support traditions that sustain wildness. These efforts are anchored in the principles of conservation biology, supported by field research and community planning.
Scarborough Access Centre is an anti-violence project that works to promote safety and empower women and children fleeing domestic violence by providing a one-stop resource centre with easy access to a range of services.
SEAS Project Fund supports the School for Esoteric Studies Inc’s Spiritual Evolution Assessment Scale web launch and subsequent general support.
Small Change Fund believes in people. We believe people know how to figure out and fix the problems in their communities, their cities, their countries. We believe people can make change without long studies, thick reports, and big money. We believe people want to help each other. We believe in making that simple.
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.
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.
SOLID Fund supports community-based grassroots development projects assisting those affected by HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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.
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.
Sustain Ontario is a multi-stakeholder, collaborative initiative whose mission is to build and strengthen a just and sustainable local food system in Ontario.
This fund supports Canadian charities working on diverse aspects of drug policy reform: harm reduction, treatment, policy alternatives, legal aid, and education.
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.
The Tyee Investigative Fund provides fellowship grants to journalists researching under-reported social, economic, and environmental issues in BC and beyond.
Tibetan Nuns Project Fund raises funds for education and support to approximately 500 nuns in five different nunneries in northern India.
Transformation Fund supports the creation of unique learning spaces that encourage relational leadership skills and the valuing of our diverse natures and natural equality.
Unity Productions Foundation is an educational media organization founded by Michael Wolfe and Alex Kronemer that uses the power of film to promote peace and greater understanding between diverse cultures.
Up With Women supports programs around housing, safety, and the economic empowerment of women.
The Urban Solutions Institute provides research, analysis, and insight on solutions for environmental sustainability, homelessness, and social inequity in Canadian cities.
The project is focused on developing the skills of urban youth through riding and learning about horses.
The York Region Alliance to End Homelessness is a coalition of stakeholders who are working collaboratively to implement a strategic response to homelessness and risk of homelessness in our communities. Our Vision is Connected and Engaged Communities: Homes for All. Our Mission is to facilitate collaborative solutions to homelessness and poverty in York Region.
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