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African Rural Development Fund

Uganda Rural Development and Training (URDT) Programme has established the African Rural Development Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities identified by URDT.

AIDS-Free World Fund

AIDS-Free World has established the AIDS-Free World Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

Angkor Hospital for Children Fund

Friends Without A Border has established the Angkor Hospital for Children Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

ArtBridges

Artbridges strives to alleviate poverty by bridging and advocating for people who want to make a difference through community arts in under-resourced communities.

ArtReach Toronto

ArtReach Toronto supports arts initiatives that engage youth who have experienced exclusion in under-served areas of Toronto.

ASEM Canada Fund

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

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.

Aurora Fund

This fund supports wilderness-based experiences for youth at risk and other disadvantaged individuals and communities.

BC Marine Conservation Analysis

BC Marine Conservation Analysis helps advance marine planning initiatives in British Columbia by identifying potential areas of high conservation value.

Big Wild Fund

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.

Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN)

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.

Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement Secretariat

The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement Secretariat is responsible for overseeing and proving project management, logistical, convening, communications, government relations and technical support to the joint implementation of the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement.

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.

Canadian Freshwater Alliance

The Canadian Freshwater Alliance is founded on the notion that people and the environment have the right to healthy waters. The Alliance is an emerging initiative that is working to unite, train and mobilize a diverse community to protect and restore all of Canada’s waters ensuring they are clean and accessible.

Canadian Youth Climate Coalition

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 (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.

CANDi Cats and Dogs International Fund

CANDi-Cats and Dogs International has established the CANDi-Cats and Dogs International Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

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.

Canopy (Markets Initiative)

Canopy has established the Canopy Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of safeguarding forests and the environment.

CANRAD Fund

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

Capacity Waterloo Region

Capacity Waterloo Region works to enhance the effectiveness and capacity of non-profit organizations in the Waterloo, Ontario region.

Centre for City Ecology

The Centre for City Ecology (CCE) works towards affecting the course of Toronto’s development by increasing urban literacy about how the city functions and how citizens and professionals can work together, and by enhancing their effectiveness in collaborating for that purpose.

Charlie Russell Bear Coexistence Fund

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

Childhelp Fund

Childhelp has established the Childhelp Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

Choice Hotels Canada Foundation Fund

The Choice Hotels Canada Foundation aspires to be an outstanding corporate citizen by helping to strengthen the communities in which we live, build and work across Canada and communities around the world.

CHOICE Humanitarian Fund

CHOICE Humanitarian has established the CHOICE Humanitarian Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

Chordoma Foundation Cancer Research Fund

The Chordoma Foundation has established the Chordoma Foundation Cancer Research Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

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.

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.

Dadiya Rural Development Fund

The Dadiya Rural Development Fund supports the sustainable rural development of the Dadiya people in the Gombe State of Nigeria.

Dechinta Fund

The Dechinta Fund supports educational opportunities in the Canada’s North; linked to the land, mindful of Indigenous laws and values and respectful of the environment.

Dharma Ocean Canadian Giving Fund

The Dharma Ocean Foundation has established the Dharma Ocean Canadian Giving Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

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.

East Scarborough Storefront

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.

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.

Etisah Foundation: Cameroonian Youth Fund

This fund supports infrastructure projects, educational opportunities and improvement of the health and well-being of Cameroonian Youth.

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.

Farms at Work

Farms at Work promotes healthy and active farmlands within the Kawartha Region in Ontario.

Forum For Leadership On Water (FLOW)

The Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW) provides real-world solutions to protect Canada’s freshwater.

Friends of Pata Manzanillo

Friends of Pata Manzanillo has established the Friends of Pata Manzanillo Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

Frontline Partners with Youth Network (FPYN)

FPYN is a group of bold and dedicated people who work with youth in Toronto.

Genocide Intervention Network Fund

The Genocide Intervention Network (GI-NET) has established the Genocide Intervention Network Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

Give Girls A Chance

Give Girls A Chance raises money to support educational opportunities for girls in Canada and around the world in places where girls and young women have limited or no access to schooling.

Give Green Canada (G2)

Give Green Canada helps environmental and conservation organizations (eNGO’s) maximize revenue with a focus on green legacies by providing online tools and training.

Global Reef Research Fund

Global Reef has established the Global Reef Research Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of generating awareness, conducting research and facilitating education on ocean conservation.

Global Security Institute Fund

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

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.

Guarding the Gifts – The Liiłga K’yilama Fund

Guarding the Gifts supports and enhances the local and global community by developing initiatives in the Great Bear Rainforest that foster sustainability and create social equity in traditional Gitga’at First Nation’s Territory.

Halifax Initiative

The Halifax Initiative is a coalition of development, environment, faith-based, human rights, and labour organizations working for global economic democracy and justice.

Headwaters Initiative Project

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 Fund

Hollyhock Fund supports charitable foundations that produce educational programs in collaboration with Hollyhock; including all manner of general support for educational programs, research and program development.

Hoops 4 Hope Fund

Hoops 4 Hope (H4H) has established the Hoops 4 Hope Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

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.

Independent World Television Fund

Independent World Television Inc. has established the Independent World Television Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

Inner Activist

The Inner Activist is a program designed to help change makers, social entrepreneurs, leaders and activists be radically more effective in their life-serving work.

Island Conservation Canada

Island Conservation Canada is dedicated to preventing extinctions and protecting natural ecological and evolutionary processes on islands.

Jane’s Walk

Jane’s Walk honours the legacy and ideas of urban activist and writer Jane Jacobs who championed the interests of local residents and pedestrians over a car-centered approach to planning.

John Kenneth Galbraith Prize Endowment Fund

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.

JustWorld International Fund

JustWorld International has established the JustWorld International Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

Keep a Child Alive Fund

Keep a Child Alive has established the Keep a Child Alive Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

LAM Canada Fund

LAM Foundation has established the LAM Canada Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

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.

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.

Lilith House Recovery Fund

The Lilith House Recovery Fund supports Lilith House — recovery homes which provide safe, substance free environments for women in recovery focused on supportive, caring and home-like environments.

Local Food Plus

Local Food Plus nurtures regional food economies across Canada by certifying farmers and processors for local, sustainable food production and helping them connect with buyers. They help ensure food security for future generations.

Lunapads Global Opportunity Fund

The Lunapads Global Opportunity Fund provides women and girls with unlimited opportunities to build and sustain healthy communities around the world.

Marine Planning Partnership for the North Pacific Coast (MaPP)

The Marine Planning Partnership for the North Pacific Coast (MaPP) is a collaborative planning process for coastal and marine areas in four sub-regions of B.C. MaPP is a partnership among the Province of British Columbia, the Coastal First Nations-Great Bear Initiative, the North Coast-Skeena First Nations Stewardship Society and the Nanwakolas Council.

MDMA/PTSD Fund

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) has established the MDMA-PTSD Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities identified by Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

Mirasol Project Fund

The Mirasol Project Fund aims to improve the quality of lives of children living in the remote Andes highlands of the Puno region of Peru.

My Arms Wide Open Fund

The My Arms Wide Open Foundation was established to provide support and collaboration with mothers, children, and youth in South Africa, enabling them to build sustainable communities and responsible businesses.

Not Far From The Tree

Not Far From The Tree puts Toronto fruit to good use by picking and sharing the bounty. They are enhancing the environment, promoting local food, alleviating poverty, enriching city life, feeding the hungry, and building a better community.

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.

Oceans Initiative Marine Wilderness Project

Oceans Initiative conducts research projects on whales, dolphins, and other marine wildlife in British Columbia and around the world.

Open Media Education Fund

OpenMedia.ca has established the Open Media Education Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting the charitable work of organizations that advance and promote open communications systems.

Organizing for Change

Organizing for Change (OFC) is a collaborative project of some of BC’s largest and best-known environmental organizations.

OSEA Education and Research Fund

The Ontario Sustainable Energy Association (OSEA) has established the OSEA Education and Research Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting education and research on community and commercial sustainable energy.

Outreach Zanzibar Fund

Outreach Zanzibar Fund was created to bring increased access to education, healthcare and the arts to the people of Zanzibar, their communities and their children, through grass roots projects.

Pacific Wild

Pacific Wild has established the Pacific Wild Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting conservation of British Columbia’s coastal wildlife.

Pathfinder International Fund

Pathfinder International’s mission is to ensure that people everywhere have the right and opportunity to live a healthy reproductive life.

PEACE Mexico Fund

PEACE Mexico has established the PEACE Mexico Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) Fund

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has established the PETA Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities identified by PETA.

Project Enlighten Fund

Project Enlighten has established the Project Enlighten Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

Rainforest Solutions Project

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.

Reduce the Juice

Reduce the Juice (RTJ) is a youth-led climate change organization that facilitates projects in Ontario designed to reduce greenhouses gas emissions while empowering youth to become agents of change.

Reel Youth

Reel Youth encourages and empowers young people through the medium of film.

RefugePoint (formerly Mapendo International) Fund

RefugePoint (formerly Mapendo International) has established the RefugePoint Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

Rideau Institute Research Fund

The Rideau Institute has established the Rideau Institute Research Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting peace and justice research and education projects intended to better inform decision makers, opinion leaders and the public about Canadian policy on national and international issues.

Rivers Without Borders

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.

Robert Huber Memorial Fund

The Robert Huber Memorial Fund supports research on IPF, species recovery of the Vancouver Island Marmot and for SYDA Vancouver Centre.

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.

Salmon Aquaculture Innovation Fund

The Salmon Aquaculture Innovation Fund was created by Tides Canada to help develop alternative models to traditional open-net aquaculture in B.C.

Scarborough Access Centre

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

The School of Esoteric Studies has established the SEAS Project Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities identified by School of Esoteric Studies.

Skeena Watershed Fund

Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition (SWCC) has established the Skeena Watershed Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting education, research and community building activities in the Sacred Headwaters region of BC.

SkeenaWild Conservation Trust Fund

The SkeenaWild Conservation Trust Fund builds an endowment that will be used to ensure salmon conservation funding in the Skeena Watershed in perpetuity.

Small Change Fund

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.

SOCAN Foundation Charitable Fund
Fonds de charité de la Fondation SOCAN

The SOCAN Foundation Charitable Fund supports charitable activities benefiting music creators and music publishers. Le Fonds de charité de la Fondation SOCAN appuie des activités caritatives dont bénéficient des créateurs et des éditeurs de musique.

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.

Social Venture Partners Toronto

Social Venture Partners Toronto (SVP Toronto) is a unique partnership that brings together a broad group of professionals to invest time and money in the most pressing challenges facing the city.

Sojourners Fund

Sojourners has established the Sojourners Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

St. Paul’s School Fund

St. Paul’s School has established the St. Paul’s School Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

STAND NOW Fund

STAND NOW supports organizations working towards alleviating poverty and oppression of women through research education and microfinance initiatives.

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.

Sustain Ontario – The Alliance for Healthy Food and Farming

Sustain Ontario is a multi-stakeholder, collaborative initiative whose mission is to build and strengthen a just and sustainable local food system in Ontario.

the deer crossing the art farm fund

the deer crossing the art farm fund supports the charitable work of the deer crossing the art farm society in creating positive change in people and communities through a combination of cutting edge arts and nature-driven programming.

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.

The Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics (FAST) Fund

The Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics (FAST) has established the Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics (FAST) Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

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.

The Future Found Fund

The Future Found Fund focuses on education and community development programs in Malawi.

The Peace and Reconciliation Training Fund

The Peace and Reconciliation Training Fund brings training tools and sustainable livelihood skills to children and their communities in conflict areas, empowering the next generations to coexist with peace and understanding.

The Tyee Solutions Society Fund

The Tyee has established The Tyee Solutions Society Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of producing catalytic solutions-oriented journalism and conducting research on social, economic, and environmental issues of broad concern to Canadians.

Tibetan Nuns Project Fund

The Tibetan Nuns Project has established the Tibetan Nuns Project Fund at Tides Canada Foundation for the purpose of supporting charitable activities.

Tides Canada Energy Initiative

The Tides Canada Energy Initiative is helping transform Canada into a leading energy efficient, ecologically responsible, and prosperous low-carbon economy. In our vision, Canada is a world leader in clean and renewable energy innovation and one of the most energy efficient societies on the planet, having diversified its economy while dramatically reducing carbon emissions. We have already served as productive and [...]

Toronto Park People

Toronto Park People advocates for better parks for all of Toronto’s communities by facilitating neighbourhood engagement in their parks, building a network of local community park groups, acting as a watchdog on issues affecting parks, and highlighting the importance of good parks to the social, health, environmental and economic well being of all residents of Toronto.

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.

UFSC Community Outreach Fund

The UFSC Community Outreach Fund supports programs that facilitate the fair and equitable participation of minorities in the capital markets and financial services industry and to raise the economic condition and quality of life of at-risk communities.

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