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Meet Our Grant Recipients

Tides Canada facilitates gifts from donors like you to some of the most important and impactful organizations in Canada. When you donate to Tides Canada, you are able to recommend gifts to groups addressing issues like climate change, wilderness protection, marine conservation, aboriginal issues, poverty and international economic development.

These organizations are making huge inroads in building a more just and sustainable world. Founded by visionaries and led by innovators, they pool ideas, resources, and people to create lasting and high-impact conservation and social justice outcomes.

Here are some of their stories:

York Region Homelessness Alliance

Uncovering hidden homelessness in suburbia. This group is sounding the alarm about a severe lack of affordable housing and inadequate emergency shelter in Ontario’s York Region and wants to increase the profile of affordable housing as a fundamental building block of a healthy community.

Tlingit Family Learning Centre

The Taku River Tlingit First Nation people have a special relationship with their land. Their environmental and cultural value system stems from a deep rooted understanding of a reciprocal interdependency with all life forms …

Food Share

Toronto-based Food Share has been working on food and hunger issues for 22 years. Their multi-awarded grassroots projects promote healthy eating, teach food preparation and cultivation, develop community capacity and create non - market based forms of food distribution.

Labour Environmental Alliance Society

Offering workshops on toxic inventory substitution in offices, schools and homes, LEAS has become recognized as Canada’s leading organization that identifies and eliminates the exposure of toxic chemicals to workers and families.

Seeds of Diversity Canada

Began in 1984 in response to concerns that historically, culturally, and ecologically important heritage plants were in danger of being lost forever, Seeds of Diversity Canada has nearly 1500 active members, mostly volunteers, dedicated to preserving heirloom plants …

Power To Be

Power To Be received the “For Kids Sake” award from Today’s Parent Magazine. In essence, we connect disadvantaged youth to nature by providing recreational programs for kids - catering for youth with different abilities …