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FUNDS AND PROJECTS

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.

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.

Angkor Hospital for Children Fund

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

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.

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

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 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 (Markets Initiative) safeguards forests and the environment by harnessing the power of the marketplace and changing business practices. Canopy does all of this in the name of protecting the integrity of our planet.

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 Fund helps meet the physical, emotional, and education needs of abused, neglected and at-risk children.

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

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.

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.

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 Canadian Giving Fund provides financial support for the ongoing mission of the Dharma Ocean Foundation, namely, to embody, unfold, and widely offer the unique path to awakening and human fulfillment.

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 Outreach 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.

ForestEthics Canada

ForestEthics Canada 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.

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 provides support to animal welfare programs in Mexico, enabling them to provide free spay/neuter clinics, rescue, and adoption services.

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

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

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

The Global Reef Research Fund generates awareness, conducts research and facilitates 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) supports the development of young people through sport, here in Canada and Africa. Hoops 4 Hope (H4H) and Soccer 4 Hope (S4H) use sport as a vehicle to connect with young people and make a difference in communities.

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

The fund supports the operation of Independent World Television, a news and current affairs television network, available on TV and online, that defends the public interest and the highest standards of journalism. Independent World Television is a non-profit service financed by viewers across the globe, independent of corporate or government funding and commercial advertising.

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 works with local partner organizations to provide basic education, nutrition, hygiene and vocational programs for children in impoverished communities in the developing world.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

The Open Media Education Fund supports 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 OSEA Research and Education Fund supports research and education to promote and enable community and commercial sustainable energy in Ontario.

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 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 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 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.

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) Fund

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

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. Since opening its first store in 1986, Please Mum has been actively involved in the community and in charities across Canada and around the world

Project Enlighten

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.

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) helps fill the critical and unmet needs of people in Africa affected by war and conflict who have fallen through the net of humanitarian assistance.

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.

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

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

Skeena Watershed Fund

Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition strives to cultivate a sustainable future from a sustainable environment rooted in culture and a wild salmon ecosystem in Northwest British Columbia.

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.

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 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

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

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.

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 Fund (FAST Fund) was established to further their mission statement of finding a cure for Angelman Syndrome and related disorders through the funding of an aggressive research agenda, education, and advocacy.

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 Solutions Society Fund supports the charitable activities of the Tyee Solutions Society, to produce catalytic solutions-oriented journalism on social, economic, and environmental issues of broad concern to Canadians.

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.

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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