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• 211 Community Information and Volunteer Centre (CIVC) (Regional: York Region, ON)

  A not-for-profit organization whose goal is to strengthen region-wide information & referral and volunteer development services.

• 519 Church Street Community Centre

  The 519 is a meeting place and focus for its vital and varied downtown community. Within a supportive environment it responds to community issues and needs by supplying the resources and opportunities to foster self-determination. It is committed to principles of accessibility, voluntarism, individual dignity and value, participation and celebration.

• A Better Chance For Success

  Helps to better integrate landed immigrants into Canadian society and the labour market by offering free counselling, free seminars, job placements, resources and support.

• A Place Called Home (Local: Lindsay, ON)

  Provides shelter and support for the homeless and disadvantaged. The organization serves single adults, couples, families and children. They provide 24-7 access in an empathetic and non-judgmental environment.

• Aboriginal Centre of Winnipeg Inc. (ACWI) (Local: Winnipeg, MB)

  A gathering place for people and a centre to foster new ideas in education, economic development, social service delivery and training.

• African Sudanese Association of Calgary (ASAC) (Local: Calgary, AB)

  Dedicated to assisting Sudanese immigrants who are resettling in Alberta. ASAC provides services and education that facilitate integration into Canadian society, such as interpretation, ESL training, citizenship classes, employment assistance and social events.

• AFS Interculture Canada

  An educational movement that promotes global education and intercultural understanding through quality exchange programs for youth and adults. We offer school base programs for youth and volunteer work/internship opportunities abroad for young adults.

• Alberta Food Bank Network Association (Regional: Edmonton, AB)

  Our mission is to provide a means whereby Alberta food banks share relevant information and resources.

• Alternative Youth Centre for Employment (A.Y.C.E.)

  A North York, Ontario based non-profit agency that offers a range of employment related services targeted to meet the needs of both youth and adults. A.Y.C.E. delivers programs that help young people, ages 16 to 29 years, find work.

• Angels Anonymous Connection (National: Edmonton, AB)

  Our purpose is to fulfill dreams for terminally ill adults. Our mission is to provide the means to grant the dream. Our vision is that no adult die without their dream being realized.

• Association of Neighbourhood Houses of Greater Vancouver

  The Association, made up of 9 neighbourhood houses and units, is a non-profit, non-government, community-based organization devoted to the enhancement of neighbourhoods. The association provides hundreds of programs and services to enhance family and neighbourhood life throughout Greater Vancouver.

• Ausable Community Centre

  A multi-purpose facility providing free employment services, computer training, visual and performing arts, tourist information, community research, small business development, and social/educational programs for all-aged residents and visitors of Lucan Biddulph, Ontario.

• BC & Yukon Technical Support Network (Regional: Vancouver, BC)

  Provides registries for providers of technical training and support, and voluntary sector (nonprofit) organizations seeking technical help. The network consists of several directories where services and products can be posted or found.

• Best Buddies Canada (National: Toronto, ON)

  Best Buddies Canada is a national charitable organization dedicated to enhancing our communities through one-to-one friendships between individuals with intellectual disabilities and students.

• Birchmount Bluffs Neighbourhood Centre (Local: Toronto, ON)

  BBNC is a charitable, multi-service organization that offers a broad range of recreational, social and learning programs. Its mission is to provide programs and supports and foster social inclusion within the community, with a focus on individuals that face a barrier to service.

• Blackburn Community Association (Local: Prince George, BC)

  A nonprofit organization striving to promote fraternal feelings and civic pride to the community. We offer community programs to our membership, actively fundraise to build up services in our community as well as deliver a preschool and after-school program.

• Bob Rumball Centre for the Deaf

  Located in Toronto, the mission of the centre is to provide opportunities for a higher quality of life for deaf people while preserving and promoting their language and culture. Many services and programs are offered: Sign Language Services which provides classes in American Sign Language to the hearing community; Happy Hands Preschool; Adult Residential Services; Supportive Independent Living Program; Seniors Services; Adult Education and Training; Vocational Training and Volunteer Services.

• Brain Injury Community Re-entry (Niagara) Inc. (BICR) (Regional: St. Catharines, ON)

  BICR is a nonprofit organization that provides support services and rehabilitation to individuals living with the effects of an acquired brain injury. It provides support and leadership to individuals, their families and/or caregivers within the Niagara Region.

• Burnaby Mental Wealth Society

  The society was started in 1993 by a group of mental health consumers who wanted to help themselves, and others like them in the community, move towards health and wellness.

• Caledon Community Services (Regional: Bolton, ON)

  Offers many services to the Peel community such as: crisis support, information, supportive housing, respite care, transportation services, volunteering, and employment services.

• Calgary Alternative Support Services (CASS) (Local: Calgary, AB)

  C.A.S.S. is a not-for-profit agency that offers community support services to people with disabilities in the Calgary area.

• Calgary Association of Self Help (Local: Calgary, AB)

  A community mental health rehabilitation centre that provides client-centered, flexible services promoting the abilities of adults with mental illness. This is accomplished through our rehabilitation, counselling and social/leisure programs.

• Calgary Centre for Non-Profit Management

  The Centre offers a range of management consulting services such as organizational assessments, business planning, board governance, HR and IT issues, to Calgary's non-profit sector through the recruitment and strategic pairing of highly-skilled volunteer management consultants with client agencies.

• Calgary Immigrant Aid Society

  Dedicated to assuring immigrants the opportunity to participate fully, both as contributors to and beneficiaries of the Canadian community.

• Calgary Immigrant Women's Association (CIWA) (Local: Calgary, AB)

  Promotes and supports the integration of immigrant women into the community and the larger Canadian society. Programs include: skills training and employment services; cross-cultural parenting; English as a second language; and family conflict and integration.

• Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society

  The Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank strives to be the outstanding, volunteer driven provider of quality emergency food to all those in need.

• Calgary Learning Centre (Local: Calgary, AB)

  The Calgary Learning Centre provides diagnosis and support services for individuals with learning difficulties, low literacy skills, and attention difficulties such as Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). The web site also offers easily accessible, free, online seminars.

• Camphill Communities Ontario

  Family life imbued with the feeling of commitment and belonging is the cornerstone of life at Camphill Communities Ontario, which includes adults with developmental disabilities. Offering cultural, vocational and creative outlets, Camphill creates a balanced life for its residents.

• Campus Food Bank (Local: Edmonton, AB)

  A nonprofit organization that provides emergency food hampers, toiletries, referrals, and poverty advocacy referrals to any member of the University of Alberta community who is in need.

• Canadian Alliance for Animal-Assisted Services

  The Canadian Alliance for Animal-Assisted Services endeavors to advance the current system of providing Canadians with animal-assisted services to promote abilities while improving health, quality of life, well-being, and autonomy.

• Canadian Alliance for Development Initiatives and Projects (CADIP) (International: Vancouver, BC)

  CADIP runs youth volunteer projects in Canada and overseas focusing on: charity work; environmental protection; restoration and conservation work; archaeological excavations; festivities and any other volunteer work with social impact. The organization promotes peace, cooperation, tolerance and understanding in international, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural surroundings. It also promotes patterns and examples of civil activities focused on serving others, building social ties and strengthening communities, and supporting civil society development.

• Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness (National: Newmarket, ON)

  Exists to provide accessible support, healing and individual empowerment for survivors, children, families and caregivers and to eliminate child abuse through advocacy, education, public awareness, and prevention programs by creating community and corporate partnerships.

• Canadian Friends of Somalia (National: Ottawa, ON)

  Canadian Friends of Somalia is a federally registered non-governmental organization that focuses on making a difference for ethnic minority communities. It develops, coordinates and delivers effective social, community, health, settlement and integration services.

• Canadian Mental Health Association Wellington/Dufferin & Waterloo Regional Branch (Regional: Guelph, ON)

  Our mission is to work with the community to provide opportunities for all individuals to enhance their mental health and the quality of their lives and eliminate bigotry, prejudice and the resulting stigmas.

• Catharsis Foundation (National: Calgary, AB)

  Catharsis Foundation assists survivors of child abuse by publishing, promoting, and distributing their true accounts at no cost to the author. Authors receive 100% net royalties.

• Catholic Community Services of Montreal

  CCS is a community organization that has been providing a wide range of services to families, seniors, youth, and adults, since 1932. Our services and programs are available to anyone in need, regardless of religious affiliation.

• Central Eglinton Community Centre

  This neighbourhood community centre is located in central Toronto and provides a wide variety of services and programs including tax and legal clinics, housing registries, and a community bulletin board.

• Central Neighbourhood House (Local: Toronto, ON)

  CNH provides essential and innovative services to young people, seniors, new Canadians and all members of Toronto's downtown east community. It provides spaces, services and opportunities that engage all community members in enhancing their quality of life and in building healthy, inclusive neighbourhoods.

• Centre Greene (Westmount, QC)

  Centre Greene is an independent, nonprofit organization with a strong commitment to its community and dedicated to providing quality social, cultural, and recreational services. We are open to the community at large regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, ability or socio-economic status.

• Centre for Treatment of Sexual Abuse & Childhood Trauma (Local: Ottawa, ON)

  We provide individual, family and couples therapy for individuals who have been sexually abused or otherwise traumatized or stressed by life experiences. We also participate in advocacy for survivors of trauma and abuse and offer training and education to professionals.

• Changing Ways (Regional: London, ON)

  Changing Ways helps men to eliminate their abusive and violent behaviour in their primary and intimate relationships, offering group counselling for men who either have been referred to come here or who join voluntarily. The organization also takes on a large correctional population of clients who have been convicted of domestic violence and have been court ordered to attend the program.

• Chimo Helpline

  A non-profit organization dedicated to helping people in emotional crisis. We are provincially based and our number -- 1-800-667-5005 --can be found in the front cover of any New Brunswick phonebook.

• Christmas Exchange of Ottawa-Carleton

  Since 1915, Christmas Exchange of Ottawa-Carleton has been delivering food hampers and vouchers to eligible families referred each year by local organizations. The Exchange also cross-references clients to avoid duplication and ensure that every dollar raised is distributed evenly and fairly.

• Circle of Care

  A home support agency in Metropolitan Toronto providing services to individuals living in their own home. Services include: homemaking, personal care support, respite and palliative care, kosher meals on wheels, volunteer visiting and transportation.

• Circle of Healing

  Through the primary use of First Nations healing and counseling techniques we assist those who are suffering take the necessary steps to reclaim their lives and gain a sense of self worth, direction and purpose. We address individuals' physical, emotional, pscho-social and spiritual needs while providing them with safe places to heal, pray and find the answers they are seeking through connecting to the Great Spirit.

• Citizen Action Group (Local: Hamilton, ON)

  An employment assistance organization with 32 years of service. We provide help with job search strategy, resumes, a resource room (online computers), job placement, and employer contact. These are just a few of our services to the community.

• Citizens Against Bullying Association of Northern Alberta (National: Mayerthorpe, AB)

  Our mission is to create awareness about bullying behaviour and to obtain resources to help counter bullying. We are also devoted to acting as a support network for those who are being bullied and their families, and to lobby officials at the local, provincial, and national level to create change.

• Coast Foundation Society (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  Coast is a co-operative community that provides high quality supported housing, employment programs, social opportunities and other community mental health services for people with a serious and persistent mental illness.

• Common Concerns Association

  A non-profit society set up by Strathcona/DTES residents of Vancouver to assist with opportunities for greater local sustainability. It helps organize residents who are interested in community economic development projects within our community.

• Communities Advancing Valued Environments (CAVE) (Local: Toronto, ON)

  We are committed to creating and sustaining a process, which will promote, improve, and sustain the well being of our urban environment and communities.

• Community Information Centre of Ottawa-Carleton

  A charitable not-for-profit agency that exists since 1974. Our mission is to offer Information and Referral services to the citizens of Ottawa-Carleton, in a bilingual format, to help them find the health or social services that best respond to their needs.

• Community Information Service Hamilton-Wentworth

  We are a community information centre providing free information and referral for the Hamilton Region. We are an incorporated charitable organization and a member of the Association of Information and Referral Services in Ontario.

• Community Information Toronto

  A wide range of information about community services and programs available in Toronto.

• Community Justice Initiatives (Local: Kitchener, ON)

  CJI strives to build a safer, more connected community through supporting creative, peaceful solutions in situations of conflict or harm. It is known worldwide as having started the first restorative justice program.

• Community Legal Education Association Manitoba (CLEA)

  CLEA is a non-profit organization that provides public legal education services to Manitobans. We believe people must understand the law and the legal system to participate equally in a democratic society.

• Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) (Regional: Toronto, ON)

  CLEO strives to provide the information needed by low-income and disadvantaged people to understand and exercise their legal rights. It works with other community legal clinics and agencies to develop and distribute legal information that is accurate and accessible to communities across Ontario.

• Community MicroSkills Development Centre (Regional: Etobicoke, ON)

  A nonprofit organization that provides training, settlement, employment and self-employment services to individuals, with priority to the needs of immigrants, visible minority, low-income people with a specific focus on services to women in Toronto and surrounding areas.

• Community-Police Liaison Committee - No. 41 Division (Local: Toronto, ON)

  The Community-Police Liaison Committee is made up of representatives from the community, business, and police. We are dedicated to increasing safety and security for the public by identifying community and policing concerns.

• Community Support Services of Niagara (Regional: Niagara, ON)

  A nonprofit agency that helps seniors and disabled adults stay in their own homes. Programs include: friendly visiting, Talk-a-Bit, home help, Meals On Wheels, Lunch Out, and transportation.

• Conflict Mediation Services of Downsview (CMS-D) (Local: Toronto, ON)

  A not-for-profit organization committed to changing the face of conflict in families, workplaces, schools, and neighbourhoods through free transformative mediation and restorative justice initiatives, and fee-for-service trainings and interventions.

• Connections Youth Resource Centre (Local: Courtenay, BC)

  A one-stop access point where young people can find information or be referred to available community services that assist young people in achieving independence and personal growth.

• Constance & Bucham's Bay Community Association

  Located in Ottawa, Ontario, we are a volunteer run, not for profit, corporation that provides athletic and meeting facilities and, operates sports, community and social programs.

• Co-ordinated Access for Child Care

  The official site for child care and day care services in the new City of Hamilton. This site includes comprehensive data on licensed and home-based services, map-based searching and child/family related information including advice on how to choose child care.

• C.O.R.E. Homeless Association (National: North Bay, ON)

  A not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the establishment of better living standards for the homeless in Canada. It is our aim to fulfill the desperate need for adequate, affordable housing and for proper care for the homeless.

• COSTI

  Founded by the Italian Canadian community to meet a shortage of services for immigrants in the post war era, it is a multicultural agency that provides educational, social and employment services to help all immigrants in the greater Toronto area attain self-sufficiency in Canadian society.

• Cottage Dreams (Regional: Wilberforce, ON)

  A nonprofit organization that provides a one-week vacation at a donated cottage to cancer survivors to enhance recovery.

• Covenant House Vancouver

  Provides food, shelter, clothing and counselling to the estimated 500 - 1,000 street youth in Vancouver.

• CRC Self-Help (Local: Toronto, ON)

  The purpose of CRC Self Help is to provide stable, affordable, high quality housing, based on the principles of self-determination, dignity, full partnership and access to the wealth of resources and supports in the community.

• Creative Alternatives of Montreal

  A nonprofit women's centre that uses the vitality of expressive arts to promote growth and well being within families, individuals, and communities.

• Crime Prevention Association of Toronto (CPAT) (Local: Toronto, ON)

  The Crime Prevention Association of Toronto is a nonprofit organization which works to support, educate and mobilize communities to help reduce the risk of crime through crime prevention initiatives.

• Crime Stoppers of Halton (Regional: Halton, ON)

  A citizen and media co-operative organized to involve the public living in Burlington, Oakville, Milton and Halton Hills in the fight against crime. Offers anonymous reporting for theft, violence, bullying, and abuse.

• Crisis Centre

  The Crisis Centre provides immediate, confidential and non-judgmental support, resources and prevention through the 24 hour Distress Line (604) 872-3311 to people in crisis or distress in the Lower Mainland of BC. Also provides community education, awareness and prevention skills to high school students.

• Crisis Prevention, Intervention & Information Centre for Northern BC (Regional: Prince George, BC)

  Provides anonymous, confidential and free para-professional telephone counselling. Our 24-Hour line and our Youth Support Line are available 24-hours a day, and are staffed by highly trained volunteers.

• CultureLink (Local: Toronto, ON)

  Dedicated to facilitating the independence and full participation of newcomers in Toronto's diverse community. This is done by enhancing and building skills to promote newcomer self-sufficiency, promoting positive interaction and understanding between the HOST and newcomer communities, and providing innovative programming to meet the changing settlement needs of newcomers and volunteer participants.

• Distress Centre of Calgary

  A 24-hour crisis line, short-term professional crisis counselling, public education presentations on agency provision, suicide, drug use and abuse.

• Distress Centre Oakville

  Provides a confidential listening, befriending, and crisis intervention telephone service for people in Oakville, Milton and surrounding areas. The centre provides outreach programs to serve the changing needs of the community, including suicide prevention and programs for youth.

• Distress Centre Peel (Regional: Peel, ON)

  Provides 24-hour telephone support, crisis intervention, and referral to other agencies where appropriate, for people in distress throughout Peel.

• Distress Centres of Toronto (Local: Toronto, ON)

  The mission of the Distress Centres of Toronto is to provide emotional support, crisis intervention, and suicide prevention to those who request our services.

• Distress Centre of Wellington/Dufferin

  The Distress Centre of Wellington/Dufferin is committed to providing a 24 hour telephone support line 7 days a week. Anyone can call for non-judgemental emotional support, exploration of options and referrals.

• Dress Your Best (Local: Toronto, ON)

  Dress Your Best's mission is to contribute to the relief of poverty in the Greater Toronto Area. We see employment as the only permanent solution and we focus on helping individuals who are seeking jobs but cannot afford the appropriate work attire. In outfitting our clients with professional clothing, we help restore their sense of pride and establish themselves as contributing members of society.

• Durham Region Unemployed Help Centre

  A non-profit agency that provides interview, resume writing, and job search workshops as well as Internet training and computer access to the unemployed and underemployed.

• Durham Region's Intimate-Relationship Violence Empowerment Network (DRIVEN) (Regional: Oshawa, ON)

  DRIVEN is a community initiative to serve clients of intimate-relationship violence through co-located services and a network of collaborating agencies and partners. This approach is to facilitate the victim's access to needed supports and to enhance service quality.

• East Metro Youth Services (Local: Scarborough, ON)

  A community resource helping troubled youth and their families build a better future.

• East Wellington Advisory Group

  A community-based, nonprofit corporation whose mission is to improve the quality of life through the provision of a multi-service centre support of individuals in need; co-ordination of available services; liaison with related organizations; initiation of new programs; and encouragement of community involvement.

• Edmonton City Centre Church Corporation (ECCCC) (Local: Edmonton, AB)

  Responds to the needs of disadvantaged people through program delivery, coordination, and advocacy in partnership with other individuals and organizations in order to create healthier communities for all.

• Edmonton Community Legal Centre (Local: Edmonton, AB)

  The Edmonton Community Legal Centre is a nonprofit organization that offers free legal information, advice and representation for people living with low income in the Edmonton area.

• Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues

  The largest volunteer recreation organization in North America, the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues is the umbrella organization for 142 communities and 12 districts within the City of Edmonton, Alberta.

• Ehrlo Community Services

  An associated charity of the Ranch Ehrlo Society, the mandate of Ehrlo Community Services Inc. is to provide community-based prevention and intervention services.

• English Language Tutoring for the Ottawa Community (ELTOC) (Local: Ottawa, ON)

  ELTOC provides home tutoring for adult immigrants who cannot attend regular English programs. Once a week, students receive free, one-on-one instruction in their homes by volunteer tutors. Emphasis is given to practical English skills that allow newcomers to integrate into Canadian life.

• Ethnic Charities International Inc. (International: Surrey, BC)

  A charitable private foundation with a unique, direct funding/fundraising approach that responds to the 'living needs' of needy individuals, students, families, elderly, and low-income landed immigrants/permanent residents in North America.

• Evergreen Hospice

  Evergreen Hospice is a non-profit agency providing supportive care to people of all ages in the Markham and Whitchurch-Stouffville area who are dealing with a life-threatening illness, and bereavement care for family and friends.

• Family Caregivers' Network Society (Regional: Victoria, BC)

  Provides support, education and information to individuals who are caregivers of adult family members or friends, who live at home or in a facility, and are frail, elderly, disabled or ill. Services include support groups, resource library, workshops, and newsletter.

• Family Counselling and Support Services for Guelph-Wellington

  Family Counselling and Support Services is a non-profit, community based organization dedicated to enriching, supporting and strengthening couple, family and individual life. We offer counselling, advocacy, support and a wide variety of other services.

• Family Service Association of Toronto (FSA)

  Helps families and individuals dealing with multiple problems such as poverty, violence, and breakup. Our services are available to everyone who lives or works in Toronto and include counselling, community development, and advocacy.

• Family Services of Peel (Regional: Mississauga, ON)

  Family Services of Peel is a community based not-for-profit agency serving the Region of Peel. Our mission is to strengthen families and individuals while striving for a supportive and responsive community. Providing services to the citizens of Peel since 1971.

• FEDERATION CJA (International: Montreal, PQ)

  FEDERATION CJA is the heart and soul of Montreal's Jewish community and has tended to the health, welfare, social, cultural, educational, and recreational needs of the community for more than 80 years.

• Foodpath, Mississauga ON

  Foodpath collects and distributes over 225,000 kilograms of food each month, through the food bank, their outreach programs and to over 40 agencies in Peel and the surrounding areas. It started the first Healthy Start Program in the Peel Region and now supplies food to all Healthy Start Programs in Peel. It also provides food to numerous children's breakfast programs in Peel.

• Fort York Food Bank

  We relieve poverty by: providing emergency food supplies; providing counselling services; providing other charitable programs as needed and determined by our community. We are an agency of the Daily Bread Food Bank and a registered charity.

• fourinfo.com

  An information network that is located in Ontario, Canada, and serves the four counties of: Haliburton, Northumberland, Peterborough, and Victoria.

• Fraser Region Community Justice Initiatives Association (Regional: Langley, BC)

  The agency has more than 20 years of experience providing conflict resolution services within a restorative justice framework in such settings as the criminal justice system, workplace, community, institutions, organizations, churches, schools and businesses, and for private individuals. Its mission is to foster peacemaking and the resolution of conflict in the community through the development and application of restorative justice values, principles, and processes.

• Fraserside Community Services Society (Local: New Westminister, BC)

  Fraserside offers structured programs that inform, motivate and facilitate self-help. Our programs in the areas of counselling, mental health services, community living, and advocacy promote personal development and direct individuals to resources that can help them overcome difficulties.

• Friends & Advocates Peel

  A non-profit, non-medical, community based, adult mental health organization offering social and recreational support to those who have experienced mental/emotional distress resulting in social isolation. Provides opportunities to develop strong communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.

• Furniture Bank (Local: Toronto, ON)

  Collects and distributes donated furniture and other household items to assist a wide variety of people in Toronto who are in need. Our clients are referred to us by registered agencies such as shelters and community centres.

• Gatehouse, The

  Survivors of abuse need a safe pace to tell their stories. The Gatehouse is a two-story Victorian house lovingly restored by Toronto's Lakeshore community in order to provide a place for survivors of abuse to do so. Police and Children's Aid workers use our interview room to videotape the testimony of children who have been abused. Youth and adult survivors of abuse also access the house and the various support groups. We will also offer an adult male survivors group and a parent peer support group. Clients can also access individual counselling when appropriate and all in need benefit from our food bank. We are supported by a 200 member volunteer base and a committed community of friends. The Gatehouse, a safe place where everyone has a voice.

• Gather & Give Charitable Foundation (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  Provides support services to front-line organizations working with those in need: the homeless, those in transition, refugees, immigrants, the working poor, and individuals and families in crisis.

• Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard (Local: Ottawa, ON)

  The Mission of the Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard is to collect and distribute food products and other necessities of life for needy persons in Gloucester, to support and encourage reform and social change that would eliminate the need for emergency food assistance, and to treat all persons involved with the Food Cupboard with due respect and dignity regardless of gender, race, age, religion or sexual orientation.

• Goodwill Industries of Alberta

  Has a mission to assist Albertans with disabilities and disadvantages attain greater independence through vocational training and employment. This mission is predicated on the belief that the power and dignity of work serves as a cornerstone that enhances virtually all aspects of one's life.

• Gordon Neighbourhood House

  Vancouver's Gordon Neighbourhood House offers more than 40 programs for wide segments of the community. Activities include: low-cost clothing, inexpensive meals, pre-teen programs, parenting sessions, English language courses, job skills training, and day trips and programs for seniors.

• Greater Vancouver Community Services Society

  The goals of the society are to offer and operate a comprehensive program of assistance to the elderly, the physically and developmentally disabled, and other socially disadvantaged people in the community, and to promote community involvement and cooperation.

• Griffin Centre (Local: North York, ON)

  The Griffin Centre provides a range of responsive community mental health services to youth and adults with complex needs. We have served the community for 30 years and are committed to building better futures for those we serve.

• Habitat for Humanity

  A non-profit organization that builds simple affordable housing. All homes are sold to families in need of adequate shelter, using no profit, interest free mortgages. Our mission is simple: to eliminate poverty housing and make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

  • Brampton, ON
  • Edmonton, AB
  • Halton Region, ON
  • Kingston, ON
  • London, ON
  • National Capital Region
  • Saskatoon, SK
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• Harvest Project (Local: North Vancouver, BC)

  Since 1993, Harvest Project has been reaching out to people on the North Shore to help them cope with difficult life circumstances. Through client care programs, counseling, resource services, clothing and groceries, we provide the safety net between temporary setbacks and crises.

• HeartWood Centre for Community Youth Engagement (Regional: Halifax, NS)

  Our mission is to work with youth to develop their skills and confidence as community builders. We train and support adults, young adults and agencies in the skills and tools they require to support meaningful youth participation in communities.

• Heartwood Place (Local: Kitchener, ON)

  A charitable organization committed to making a change in the local housing crisis in the Kitchener-Waterloo region by creating safe, affordable, and adequate housing.

• Home and Community Support Services of Grey Bruce

  A team of caring staff and volunteers who provide community based services that support independence and enhance the quality of daily life for seniors, adults and their families.

• HomeStart Foundation (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  Furnishing homes to rebuild lives; a Christian humanitarian foundation providing furniture to people in need from all faiths, social and cultural backgrounds. We work with over 35 frontline organizations.

• Hope Air

  Flying those in need to medical care, it is a national charitable organization that provides free air transportation for financially burdened Canadians in need of medical treatment outside their local communities.

• Hope Foundation of Alberta (Regional: Edmonton, AB)

  The mission of the Hope Foundation is to increase understanding of the role of hope in human life, so that people can be intentional in using hope to enhance quality of life, particularly in relation to health, learning, and community.

• Hospice Caledon (Local: Bolton, ON)

  Provides support and comfort to those with life-threatening illnesses, as well as their families, and helps them face a difficult time with strength and dignity.

• Hospice Georgina (Local: Sutton, ON)

  Hospice Georgina is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the residents of the Town of Georgina and Georgina Island. It provides caring, trained volunteers dedicated to providing non-medical, physical, emotional, and spiritual support to people in Georgina coping with life-threatening or terminal illness. It also provides respite care for caregivers who are looking after a loved one at home, as well as grief and bereavement programs.

• Hospice Kawartha Lakes (Regional: Lindsay, ON)

  The mission of Hospice Kawartha Lakes is to enhance the quality of life for individuals and families facing life-threatening illness and grief.

• Hospice Renfrew (Regional: Renfrew, ON)

  Hospice Renfrew provides end-of-life care to people who are experiencing life-threatening or terminal illness. Its focus is to manage the pain and symptoms of these illnesses to maximize quality of life.

• Hospice of Waterloo Region (Regional: Kitchener, ON)

  Hospice of Waterloo Region is a charitable organization whose specially trained volunteers provide emotional, practical and spiritual support to those affected by a life threatening illness. Hospice helps individuals living with a life threatening illness, their caregivers and the recently bereaved. Hospice’s programs include: a Volunteer Visiting Program, a Children’s Support Group, a Bereavement Walking Group and a Day Respite Program.

• House of Friendship (Regional: Kitchener, ON)

  The mission of House of Friendship is to serve low income adults, youth and children in need of support and to promote opportunities for personal growth, wholesome relationships and community development through the application of holistic Christian principles.

• Human Development Council (Saint John, NB)

  Social planning promotes a quality of life that creates a balanced community. The Human Development Council (HDC) promotes and co-ordinates social development in the Greater Saint John Area.

• Huron (ON) Community Service Network

  A network for community, health and social service agencies, promoting coordination and cooperation of community services in Huron County ON.

• Huron Respite Network

  Provides the opportunity for a caregiver to arrange a regular or occasional break in order to maintain balance in their lives and prevent family breakdown or crisis.

• Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba (IRCOM) (Regional: Winnipeg, MB)

  IRCOM is committed to empowering newcomer families through Proactive Post-initial Settlement Services (PPSS) in order to facilitate their transition into the larger Winnipeg community. IRCOM provides transitional housing as well as social services, such as recreation, family and literacy programming, to newly arrived refugees in the City of Winnipeg.

• Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia (ISS) (Regional: Vancouver, BC)

  Provides settlement, community, English-language training, and employment services to immigrants, refugees, and students in Canada.

• Immigrant Women Job Placement Centre

  Provides assistance in job search, employment placement and counselling, and skills training, to aid immigrant women living in the Metropolitan Toronto area to achieve their employment goals and become productive members of the Canadian workforce.

• India Rainbow Community Services (Local: Mississauga, ON)

  Provide services for integration into Canadian society and works to meet the social services, training and health needs of the Peel immigrant community. Services are provided to new immigrants through language and job search training, abused women, youth, seniors, diabetes education, day program for people with long-term care needs, housing support for mentally ill, and parenting.

• Information Niagara

  Provides information and referral to a wide range of programs and volunteer opportunities in the Niagara Region.

• Information Orillia

  A community information centre providing Information and referral to a wide range of social, health, and government services in Orillia and district.

• Information Windsor

  Provides information on local community and government services to residents in the Windsor area.

• Inform New Hamilton

  An online database of more than 4,500 records of community, government, voluntary sector, nonprofit and health sector programs and services in the new City of Hamilton, Ontario.

• Inuvik Youth Centre (Local: Inuvik, NT)

  The Inuvik Youth Centre serves at-risk youth in Inuvik, NWT, working to help them gain the confidence, skills, awareness necessary to effectively address the social issues they are facing, while encouraging them to become active, contributing members of their communities.

• Islamic Family and Social Services Association

  A nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and providing human services and activities in response to the needs and interests of the disadvantaged members of the Edmonton community while specializing in serving Muslim needs.

• Island Christian Care Society (Regional: Nanaimo, BC)

  Provides shelter and care for those in need, reflecting the love of God in loving one another. On Vancouver Island we operate four houses, an online church directory, and Cars for Care - a program that restores donated cars for those in need.

• It Takes a Village (Local: Durham, ON)

  A nonprofit organization dedicated to bettering the lives of ethnic and immigrant children and families in Ajax-Pickering through culturally sensitive programs and services.

• Jean Tweed Centre (Local: Toronto, ON)

  A non-medical, community-based substance abuse and problem-gambling treatment facility for women in Ontario. The centre is a charitable organization that aims to provide counseling and care to assist each woman to restore herself to a meaningful life within her community.

• Job Skills

  A non-profit, community-based agency that has been providing a variety of employment and business services to residents of York Region / Bradford for over 10 years. Services offered at Job Skills range from on-site employment resource rooms to more customized, one-to-one supports in resume development, job search skills and the development of a return-to-work action plan.

• JobStart

  A nonprofit community agency in south Etobicoke, Ontario that provides individuals with barriers to employment with the necessary counselling, education and training, so they can create or find and keep jobs. We serve: Youth, at risk youth, newcomers to Canada, experienced workers and people with disabilities. Services Options: - Counselling, job placement, workshops, skills training, job matching, seminars and information and referral.

• John Howard Society of Durham Region

  A social service organization that provides many types of services to individuals and families, including employment, counselling, literacy, anger management, active parenting, needle exchange, and more.

• JVS of Greater Toronto

  JVS provides leadership in the development and delivery of educational and vocational services in order to assist its clients to identify educational and vocational goals, to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to achieve those goals, and to deal effectively with educational and vocational barriers.

• Kanata Food Cupboard (Local: Kanata, ON)

  Our primary mission is to collect and distribute food products to self-identifying individuals (living in the former city of Kanata) requiring emergency food service.

• Kenyan Community in Ontario (Regional: Toronto, ON)

  A non-political and non-denominational organization committed to promoting development, settlement and adjustment programs, as well as preserving the rich cultural heritage of the Kenyan community in Canada.

• Kerry's Place Autism Services

  Kerry's place autism services is a voluntary, not-for-profit organization dedicated to serving people with autism/pdd. Incorporated since 1974, Kerry's place has grown to encompass six residential divisions and four community outreach programmes. The mission of kerry's place is to offer unique and specialized services of personalized support, advocacy, research, education and collaboration to enable individuals in Ontario with autism/pdd to achieve their optimal opportunities in life.

• Kettle Friendship Society (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  The Kettle Friendship Society began 25 years ago, providing support and services to mental health consumers in Vancouver. Since then The Kettle has grown into a registered charity, offering a cost-effective alternative to over-burdened hospital/mental health facilities.

• Kids'n'Dad (Regional: Kitchener, ON)

  Our mission is to ensure that children of separated or divorced families have both parents, as well as their extended families actively involved in their daily lives.

• Kitchener-Waterloo (ON) Multicultural Centre
  
  
• La Mosaïque (Regional: Montreal, QC)

  A nonprofit volunteer and community-based organization devoted to enhancing the life of the people it helps. It provides more than 30 services such as community kitchens for families and the handicapped, a cooking class for young people, transport services for the elderly and the sick, and emergency food and clothing.

• Langs Farm Village Association (Local: Cambridge, ON)

  A neighbourhood organization that promotes the enrichment and well-being of residents by providing high quality, supportive, and accessible programs and services for all ages.

• Leaders of Tomorrow (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  A mentorship and leadership program that brings together students in their last year of post-secondary education with members of the business community to bridge the gap between school and the business world.

• Lookout Emergency Aid Society

  A non-profit, charitable organization, providing sectarian lay services to adult men and women who suffer from a wide variety of problems including mental illness, mental handicaps, medical problems, physical disabilities, social dysfunctions, substance abuse or - more frequently - a combination of problems.

• Mainstream Association for Proactive Community Living

  Mainstream provides forty-plus residential programs, and over 28 day programs to 450-plus mentally and/or physically challenged children, youth, adults, seniors and their families in BC. Mainstream's Board, membership and staff believe in our clients, rights to rich, productive lives. We aim to assist clients in achieving the substance of this belief.

• Main Street Community Services (Local: Stittsville, ON)

  Main Street Community Services is a registered not-for-profit agency working in partnership with other distinguished community organizations to provide comprehensive social and health services. We are committed to the vision of empowering children, youth, individuals, families and communities to achieve whole health, social well-being and community collectiveness.

• Marianhill Inc. (Local: Pembroke, ON)

  A full-service provider, specializing in geriatric care. Marianhill offers a full range of specialty services including the Dr. L.U. McCluskey Centre (dedicated to the needs of people with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias), geriatric assessments, geriatrics mental health outreach, palliative care, respite care, audiology, and adult day services.

• MCC Employment Development (Local: Calgary, AB)

  A community economic development (CED) organization that offers hope and opportunity to people living in poverty. It operates CED programs in four key areas: business development, financial literacy, technology access, and trades training.

• McMan Youth, Family & Community Services Association (Regional: Alberta)

  Provides quality care and services across Alberta. Offering foster care, group care, supported independent living, family services, counselling and support for people with DisABILITIES. McMan works with children, youth, adults & families.

• Meal Exchange

  Exists to eradicate hunger in Canada by identifying and implementing student solutions.

• Meals on Wheels
  • Calgary
    
  • Fredericton
    
  • North Shore, Vancouver, BC
    
  • Sudbury
    
    
• Men's Project (The) (Regional: Ottawa, ON)

  A counselling centre created for supporting men in a process of change with integrity. We offer bilingual, professional, group, and individual counselling services for men and their families on such issues as childhood trauma recovery, recent sexual assault, depression and loss, anger and conflict, etc. We offer services to straight, gay and bisexual men.

• Men's Trauma Centre (The) (Local: Victoria, BC)

  We provide counselling services to men who have experienced emotional, physical or sexual trauma. We offer a victim services program for men who were sexually or physically abused as children or sexually assaulted as an adult.

• Mission du Grand Berger/Mission of the Great Shepherd

  Organisation humanitaire sans but lucratif dont l'action vise à soulager les besoins des personnes démunies dans la région de Montréal et de Pointe St-Charles.
  
  A mission serving the Montreal and Point St. Charles region of Quebec.

• Mission in Ottawa, The

  Since 1906, the Mission in Ottawa has been giving material and spiritual assistance to homeless people in the Ottawa area.

• Mission Services of London

  A social and welfare agency, with a Christ-like orientation, endeavouring through the diversified ministries of its branches to care for needy people. Mission Services of London strives to serve the disadvantaged and/or homeless, whether man, woman or child, by the provision of food, clothing, shelter and rehabilitation where appropriate.

• Moorelands Community Services (Local: Toronto, ON)

  Founded in 1912, Moorelands works with Toronto children and youth living in poverty to enhance their self-esteem and life-skills and to assist them in becoming responsible members of their community. Activities include a summer wilderness camp, city day camp, after-school and youth leadership programs.

• My Canada! Integration & Settlement Services (Regional: Richmond Hill, ON)

  A nonprofit, nonsectarian organization that helps newcomers to settle and integrate with short and long-term planning in "this prosperous land Canada". Its goal is to promote healthy, friendly and nonviolent communities in multicultural, multiethnic, multifaith Canada.

• National Advertising Benevolent Society (NABS)

  A nonprofit organization that was established to assist people in the advertising industry and related businesses who need help due to illness, injury, unemployment, substance abuse or financial difficulties.

• National Broadcast Reading Service
  
  
• National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA/ANREC)

  The association represents volunteer-driven campus and community radio stations across Canada. Members work towards promoting socio-political issues, community awareness, and underexposed talent through the medium of participatory radio.

• National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, Toronto Section (Local: Toronto, ON)

  A nonprofit volunteer service organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of individuals in our community through identifying community needs. We provide leadership, energy and financial resources, while creating new projects to meet future challenges through a program of research, education, advocacy and community service.

• NEED Crisis Information Line

  The NEED line provides 24 hour telephone service to Greater Victoria (BC). Services include: immediate emotional support, crisis intervention, connection to psychiatric outreach, and information on community services. Crisis line: (250) 386-6323.

• Neighbourhood Information Post (Local: Toronto, ON)

  A nonprofit community resource centre serving the Downtown Toronto East community. Its mission is to help and empower people to overcome obstacles in the community. It achieves this by educating and connecting people with relevant community resources and providing selective community services that are responsive to critical needs.

• Newcomer Women's Services Toronto (Local: Toronto, ON)

  Newcomer Women's Services Toronto (NEW) promotes the social, economic, and cultural integration, and personal well-being of women and their families who are new to Canada.

• New Leaders of the Sunnybrook & Women's Foundation

  A group of young professionals who raise money to support research, education and patient care programs at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre through a number of annual fundraising events.

• North Hamilton Community Health Centre (Local: Hamilton, ON)

  Provides accessible health care and neighbourhood programs to individuals, families, and our community in an environment of partnership, learning and research.

• North Kootenay Lake Community Services Society (Regional: Kaslo, BC)

  We are a nonprofit, multi-service organization offering a wide range of community-based services. The society's mission is to develop and provide health and social services that enhance the quality of life and capacity for independent living of Kaslo and North Kootenay Lake residents.

• North Shore Community Services

  Offers a range of information and referral services for residents of the North Shore of Vancouver.

• Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB) (Regional: Kitchener, ON)

  The Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB) is a membership-based organization supporting 119 food banks and community food programs. It exists to provide food recovery, distribution and membership support, while educating the province on issues of hunger and poverty.

• Ontario Association of Youth Employment Centres (OAYEC)

  Supports and advocates for the development and delivery of youth employment services in Ontario. It has a strong member network of more than 60 youth employment centres across the province.

• Ontario Community Support Association

  The collective voice of more than 300 nonprofit health and social service agencies in Ontario, working to ensure that issues which affect community support services are heard and addressed by decision-makers.

• Operation Lift

  We provide a pre-booked door to door transportation service for physically challenged and frail elderly residents, allowing them a vital and affordable link to the Brantford community.

• Operation Springboard (Regional: Toronto, ON)

  Operation Springboard is an Ontario charity working to help people fulfil their potential and participate fully in their communities. We assist persons involved in the justice system, individuals with developmental disabilities, those needing employment, and the homeless.

• Orleans-Cumberland Community Resource Centre (Local: Orleans, ON)

  A bilingual, nonprofit community-based organization, open to and accepting of all members of the community.  We are committed to providing leadership in response to changing individual and community needs through our services and by working for social change.

• Ottawa Innercity Ministries (Local: Ottawa, ON)

  An interdenominational Christian charitable organization committed to building partnerships and training, and mobilizing volunteers to help people who are disadvantaged and homeless meet their spiritual, emotional, social, vocational, and physical needs.

• Ottawa Safe Community Network/Coalition (Local: Ottawa, ON)

  Dedicated to making Ottawa the safest city in the country to live, learn, work, and play. We do this by providing a forum for people to get together: to create a supportive environment amongst governments, community and business leaders committed to health and safety; and to enhance existing programs and resources through networking and partnerships.

• Our Place (Peel) (Regional: Mississauga, ON)

  Our Place (Peel) is a registered nonprofit agency founded in 1985 with a mandate to develop and operate emergency shelter and residential services for disadvantaged and homeless youth 16 to 21 years of age in the Peel Region. 

• Pacific Centre Family Services Association (Local: Victoria, BC)

  PCFSA enhances and promotes healthy patterns of living and the quality and dignity of life of individuals, families and groups within the community. Programs assist children, youth, family and adults to address challenges such as wellness, addictions, parenting and abuse. 

• Parkdale Community Legal Services

  Parkdale Community Legal Services delivers poverty law services to low-income residents of Toronto's Parkdale area, covering a wide variety of subject areas, including: social assistance; workers' rights; tenants' rights; immigration and refugee claims; mental health law; and domestic violence issues.

• Parker Street Food & Furniture Bank (Local: Halifax, NS)

  Providing food, furniture, household items, clothing and emergency funding to low-income families in metro Halifax since 1983. Parker Street also hosts NS Community College accredited computer skills courses and vocational training (flooring installation and automotive inventory).

• Peace Ranch (Local: Caledon Hills, ON)

  The mission of Peace Ranch is to provide supportive housing and rehabilitative programs for adults who have serious mental illnesses, enabling them to live and work in a community atmosphere. It fulfills this mission through psychosocial rehabilitation principles that enable individuals to move toward recovery.

• Peer Support of Sudbury (Local: Sudbury, ON)

  A nonprofit, charitable, consumer-driven organization that is dedicated to empowering, encouraging, and supporting people living with a mental health issue in the Greater City of Sudbury, Ontario.

• Pine Tree Native Centre of Brant

  A non-profit charitable organization, the Centre is a member in good standing of the Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres and the National Association of Indian Friendship Centres. The Centre does not receive government core funding but in the eleven years since it's inception has become one of the more advanced Centres in the province. A holistic concept involving all in the life cycle and incorporating traditional beliefs and values has made our Centre a role model for other organizations.

• P.O.I.N.T.(People and Organizations in North Toronto)

  Serves the people who live, work and study in North Toronto by improving availability and increasing awareness of the social and health services in the community through information, education and advocacy.

• Polycultural Immigrant & Community Services (Regional: Toronto, ON)

  Polycultural Immigrant & Community Services is a nonprofit, community-based agency assisting the local community of immigrants in their settlement and integration process. The organization helps immigrants in all areas of life, including learning the English language, employment, counselling, and family support.

• Prince Albert & District Community Service Centre (Local: Prince Albert, SK)

  A nonprofit organization that works closely with several local agencies to provide a variety of services to the Prince Albert community, including a Seniors Transportation Program. 

• Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society - Vancouver (PICS Vancouver)

  PICS Vancouver offers the multicultural community a wide range of employment assistance services and also welcomes all E.I. unemployed and underemployed individuals who need help with their job search and skills enhancement.

• Prostitution Alternatives Counselling Education (PACE)

  PACE is dedicated to the reduction of harm and abolition of conditions that lead to prostitution. We provide outreach, counselling, housing (for individuals under 24yrs of age), prevention presentations, and an IDU drop-in center for sex workers from the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver that have started their own cooperative business.

• Quest Outreach Society (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  Quest Outreach Society is B.C.'s only food exchange and we divert 6.6 million pounds of surplus food from landfills each year, which adds up to $7 million worth of food. Our mandate is to rescue food and reduce hunger. We fill, and then empty our 575-m2 warehouse each day, providing food to hundreds of social service agencies in the region feeding 50,000 people a month.

• Raising the Roof

  Raising the Roof is dedicated to finding long-term solutions to homelessness through public education campaigns, funding to community groups across the country and by working with decision-makers, policy-makers and front-line agencies nation-wide to develop national and local strategies to prevent and end homelessness.

• Ralph Thornton Centre

  A city-owned, community-controlled, community centre located in the South Riverdale area of Toronto that provides space for community groups, agencies, coalitions, and individual events. We also initiate new programmes and services to meet community needs, engage in social action and individual and group advocacy.

• Ranch Ehrlo Society

  Delivers services to troubled youth in Saskatchewan through social treatment for the benefit of the individual, family and wider community.

• Ray-cam Cooperative Community Centre (Local: Vancouver, BC)

  Encourages and supports community members to use their strengths and gifts in the improvement of day to day life in the community.

• Ray of Hope (Regional: Kitchener, ON)

  Our mission is to demonstrate the love of Christ to those who are disadvantaged, marginalized and/or in conflict with the law. We work to rehabilitate young offenders in our custody facilities, provide basic needs of people in poverty at our drop-in centre, and help people escape poverty through employment training.

• reBOOT

  reBOOT Canada is a registered charity which re-distributes computer hardware from corporations and individuals to charities and non-profits across Canada.

  • reBOOT Montreal

    reBOOT Montréal est une institution de bienfaisance qui fourni des ordinateurs et des ressources informatiques pour d'autres institutions charitables, et pour de personnes qui ont des accès limités à la technologie.

• Reena

  A non-profit social service agency dedicated to integrating individuals who have a developmental disability into the mainstream of society.

• Refuge Ministries (National: London, ON)

  Conducts prison chapel services across Canada and upon their release, supports those we help in their transition to the community where they live.

• Regesh Family & Child Services (Local: Toronto, ON)

  Regesh Family & Child Services helps at-risk youth and their families in the GTA with a drop in centre at Willowdale and Sheppard, Individual and Family Counselling, Anger Management and a residential safe house in Thornhill. As a result of a federal grant from the Department of Justice, they also work with youth in schools in Scarborough.

• Regina Education and Action on Child Hunger (REACH) (Local: Regina, SK)

  REACH supports child nutrition programs and provides seniors, shut-ins, healthcare clients, social assistance recipient families and others with easy access to safe, nutritious and affordable food through healthy food programs.

• Richmond BC Connections Information and Volunteer Society
  
  
• Richmond Multicultural Concerns Society (Local: Richmond, BC)

  The society provides leadership in helping the community to achieve intercultural harmony. It believes that all people in the community have a culture and ethnicity and all people in the community must be included in the integration process.

• Riverdale Immigrant Women's Centre (Local: Toronto, ON)

  Riverdale Immigrant Women's Centre is committed to supporting Chinese speaking and South Asian women in taking greater control of their lives. RIWC provides culturally specific settlement and counselling support services with the use of community determined strategies, which are developed and delivered by immigrant women.

• Romero House Soup Kitchen

  Provides food, clothing/household services, a chapel, emergency food orders, family projects, and a HealthCare room to people in St. John NB who are/were drug and alcohol dependent, people who have been de-institutionalized, welfare and EI recipients or those waiting for benefits, former service personnel, low income families, the working poor, and the elderly.

• Room to Grow (Local: Etobicoke, ON)

  An Etobicoke-based family drop-in centre available to all parents and caregivers with children 0-5 years. We provide parent-child programs, support groups, family events, a clothing exchange, and a resource library.

• Saanich Volunteer Services Society

  We provide direct volunteer service for those who need help to live independently. Saanich residents of all ages can benefit from our volunteer visits, drives, reassuring phone calls, companion walking, gardening assistance, minor repairs, income tax return, and tutoring.

• S.A.F.E. (Stop Abuse for Everyone)

  A non-profit organization that provides advocacy, information, and support for men and women who are the victims of domestic violence. We set up and advocate for services for men and women, straight, gay, or lesbian, with the vision of a world of powerful, supportive relationships, free of violence. S.A.F.E. concentrates on domestic violence against straight men, gay men, and lesbian women, because few services exist for these groups.

• Safe Communities Foundation

  Works in partnership with the private and public sectors to improve the health and safety of workers and people throughout your community. The goal of the Foundation and all participating Safe Communities in Canada is to eliminate injuries while promoting a culture of safety through the implementation of programs and education.

• Safe Haven Foundation

  A privately funded, nonprofit organization whose mandate is to help give Calgary youth their future back. Haven's way provides long-term homes with stable family environments and lifetime relationships for homeless and at-risk teenage girls and empowers them to achieve self-sufficiency. 

• Saint Leonard's Society of Nova Scotia (Regional: Dartmouth, NS)

  Offers reintegration programs and services for men and women in transition, including educational upgrading, readiness assessments, youth outreach services for women, and Genesis LifeLine In-Reach Services for men and women in institutions.

• Salvation Army Correctional and Justice Services (Regional: London, ON)

  Our nonprofit agency provides individuals with a variety of options for healing. Addictions counselling, community service orders, life skills, prison ministry, and more are available to all in London and Southwestern Ontario. Many programs for young offenders as well.

• San Romanoway Revitilization Association (Local: Toronto, ON)

  This organization's mission is to create a sense of belonging in the community of San Romanoway by assisting families, individuals, and groups to support each other by building safer and healthier environments. The association runs social/cultural, educational, employment, recreation, and enrichment programs for children, youth and families living in the area.

• Santropol Roulant (Local: Montreal, QC)

  A nonprofit organization founded and run by young people in the community which brings people together across cultures and generations through an innovative meals-on-wheels service, intergenerational activities, and volunteer programs.

• Saskatchewan Elks Foundation Corp. (Regional: Saskatoon, SK)

  The Saskatchewan Elks Foundation was established in 1991 to promote and support the needs of the individual and the community at large through a variety of programs and services: personal and capital assistance, addictions awareness, Saskatchewan Pediatric Auditory Rehabilitation Centre located at the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, low income senior housing, Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE), Chem Free Graduation Grants.

• Saskatoon Child Hunger and Education Program (CHEP) (Local: Saskatoon, SK)

  CHEP exists to work with communities to find long term solutions to child hunger and to improve access to good food for all. Activities include children's nutrition programs, collective kitchens, the good food box, community gardening, children's nutrition education activities, baby food workshops, canning workshops, urban rural links, and food policy networks.

• Saskatoon Open Door Society

  The Saskatoon Open Door Society welcomes and assists refugees and immigrants to become informed and effective participants in Canadian society and to involve the community in their hospitable reception and just acceptance.

• Sault Ste. Marie Soup Kitchen Community Centre

  A community meeting place with a safe, friendly and supportive atmosphere for the many children, youth, underemployed men and women and elderly who frequent the centre.Second Harvest (Local: Toronto, ON). Every day, Second Harvest picks up donated fresh food and distributes it to 129 social service programs in Metro Toronto in order to assist people who would otherwise go hungry. Our goal is that no one need ever go hungry in the communities we serve.

• Self-Esteem Network of Hamilton (Local: Hamilton, ON)

  The Self-Esteem Network of Hamilton is a non-sectarian, charitable organization that offers courses and workshops to the general public or organizations on various aspects of self-esteem.

• Semiahmoo Family Services

  A program under the auspices of Peace Arch Community Services which is a fully accredited, community-based, non-profit organization. The Program is comprised of a team of supervised therapists offering counselling on a fee for service basis.

• Semiahmoo House Society (Local: Surrey, BC)

  Provides quality services, advocacy and support to people with disabilities and their families in the community.

• Services to Assist Independent Living (SAIL) (Local: Gananoque, ON)

  A not-for-profit, charitable agency that provides community support services to seniors, adults with physical disabilities, and convalescents living in their own homes. SAIL, with the help of volunteers, provides services such as Meals on Wheels, escorted transportation and many other essential services to clients living in the townships of Front of Yonge, Leeds and the Thousand Islands, and the town of Gananoque.

• Seventh Step Society of Canada

  Realistic thinking, positive peer pressure and the self help philosophy can help incorrigible and recidivist offenders to change their behaviour and attitudes and help them become productive members of the community; Seventh Step Agencies and Chapters have developed throughout the nation with the primary purpose of reducing recidivism. The Seventh Step Society of Canada has been formed to unite these Agencies and Chapters and encourage them to share and practice a common ideal in the therapy of the offender.

• Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton

  SACE exists to empower individuals affected by sexual abuse and assault, and to empower communities to take action against sexual violence. All services of SACE are provided within our belief structure.

• ShareLife

  The Catholic community's response to helping the whole community through Catholic agencies. ShareLife's 32 agencies reach out to all those in need, regardless of religious affiliation. ShareLife helped more than 100,000 people in need this past year.

• Silayan Filipino Community Centre (Local: Toronto, ON)

  The centre offers: new immigrant support in areas of settlement, employment and housing; referral, counselling and legal services for families; skills training, and personal development classes; educational/advocacy workshops; heritage, language & cultural appreciation classes and events; drop-in programs for children/youth, seniors, single-parents, LGBT persons, domestic workers and other social groups from the Filipino-Canadian community.

• Simcoe Hall Settlement House (Local: Oshawa, ON)

  Simcoe Hall Settlement House is a not-for-profit, community resource centre dedicated, since 1935, to aiding and improving the lives of less advantaged children, families and vulnerable adults.

• SIRCH Community Services and Consulting (Local: Haliburton, ON)

  Provides innovative and accountable services and resources that support individuals, organizations, and communities in meeting changes and challenges.

• Skills for Change

  Skills for Change (Sfc) is a non-profit agency providing information and training to immigrants and refugees to assist their entry into the workforce and participation in the wider community. SfC offers a variety of training programs and work search programs designed for individuals who speak English as a Second language. The Clerical Employment Services Program provides job development and assistance finding volunteer experience placements in the clerical, customer service or retail sectors.

• Sky Dragon Community Development Co-operative Inc. (Local: Hamilton, ON)

  Sky Dragon is an incorporated nonprofit worker-cooperative dedicated to the goals of progressive social and environmental change. It seeks to facilitate this change by providing environmentally and socially-conscious consumer and lifestyle alternatives, by strengthening the local economy, and by helping build community and civic capacity amongst Hamiltonians from diverse backgrounds.

• Snowsuit Fund (The) (Local: Ottawa, ON)

  An Ottawa-based charity that raises funds for the purchase and distribution of snowsuits to needy children, aged 14 years and younger, in Ottawa/Gatineau.

• Sonshine Community Services

  Provides care, support and education from a Christian perspective to families and individuals in need, and encourages the development of healthy families.

• Southern & Central Alberta Food Bank Federation (Regional: Calgary, AB)

  We support food banks in achieving their mission to feed the hungry in their local communities through sharing information and resources between food banks.

• South Fraser Women's Services Society (Regional: Surrey, BC)

  South Fraser Women's Services Society formed in 1979. We are a nonprofit women's centre, providing free services and support to women and children from all backgrounds. We work to help women empower themselves through support, information, resources and counselling.

• South Island Learning Community (SILC) (Regional: Vancouver Island, BC)
  

  SILC's goal is to offer formal provincially articulated adult upgrading courses in a blended online and face-to-face model in partnership with community learning centres.

• South Simcoe Community Information Centre "Contact" (Local: Alliston, ON)

  Works to create a community that is informed of available resources through the provision of information and referral, access to information technologies, and partnerships with others.

• Southern Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program (SMFNRP)

  A coordinated effort of the First Nations Child and Family Services agencies and First Nations Bands of Manitoba to address the issues of treaty status adoptees. The Repatriation Program actively searches for adoptees and birth parents who were affected by the 'sixties scoop'.

• St. Albert Community Information and Volunteer Centre

  Our mission is to provide community information and referral, and volunteer services for all community members. Services include: volunteer centre; community information hotline; babysitting registry and certified babysitting courses; non-profit agency management assistance; and sidekicks - a child/volunteer matching program.

• St. Catharines Employment Help Centre (Local: St. Catharines, ON)

  Offers employment counselling, resource area, workshops, training subsidies, and programs designed for unemployed and underemployed adults.

• St. Christopher House (Local: Toronto, ON)

  A multi-service agency in downtown Toronto that develops social programs and services in response to community needs. It also promotes socio-economic conditions in which individuals and families can thrive.

• St. John Ambulance

  A national voluntary agency founded in Canada more than a century ago. Our mission is to enable Canadians to improve their health, safety and quality of life by providing training and community service.

  • London-Middlesex, ON
    
  • Nova Scotia
    
  • Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario
    
  • Toronto, ON
    
    
• St. Leonard's Society of Canada (National: Ottawa, ON)

  A membership-based, charitable organization dedicated to community safety. We promote humane and informed justice policy and responsible leadership to foster safe communities through: evidence-based approaches to criminal and social justice; research and policy; support to member affiliates; and collaborative relationships and communication among individuals and organizations dedicated to social justice.

• St. Mary's Home/Maison Sainte-Marie (Local: Ottawa, ON)

  St. Mary's Home brings hope to pregnant and parenting youth and their children. Services include: group residence, Immaculata Satellite High School, prenatal and postnatal programs, parent/child playgroups, parenting classes, and much more.

• St. Paul's L'Amoreaux Centre (Local: Scarborough, ON)

  St. Paul's L'Amoreaux Seniors' Centre, provides seniors' housing, health promotion and over 100 recreation programs covering education, leisure, special events and social opportunities for seniors and community members.

• St. Stephen's Community House

  St. Stephen's Community House has been serving the needs of Kensington Market and surrounding neighbourhoods since 1974. St. Stephen's addresses the community's most pressing issues: poverty, hunger, homelessness, unemployment, isolation, conflict and violence, AIDS, racism, youth alienation and the integration of refugees and immigrants.

• Stepping Stone Association

  A Halifax NS street outreach program that offers friendship and support to women, men and youth who work as prostitutes. It helps make the streets a safer place, and assists those who decide to leave the streets.

• StepStones for Youth (Regional: Toronto, ON)

  Our mandate is to promote and continually improve fundamental core skills for vulnerable youth that will increase their potential for success in school, the community, and as members of the workforce through leadership development, summer camp programming, and youth mentoring.

• Stratford and Area Access to Independent Living (SAAIL)

  Offers housing and other services to youth in Perth County. Harbor House is a residential home for young men ages 16-21. Youth Emergency Services Program offers safe short -term stay in a community members home. This program is for both male and female youth. The Youth Advocacy program offers a number of option for youth and their families such as conflict mediation, housing and employment advocacy and a listening ear.

• Street Spirits Theatre

  Street Spirits works with at-risk youth in Prince George, BC, providing performances that raise awareness of social problems, substance misuse, racism, homophobia, HIV and AIDS, peer pressure, family violence, poverty, sexual assault, prostitution, child abuse, and drug trafficking.

• Sunshine Dreams for Kids

  Sunshine Dreams for Kids makes dreams come true for children ages 3 to 19 who are challenged by severe physical disabilities or life-threatening illnesses. Since 1987, we have helped fulfill the dreams of almost 5,000 children across Canada.

• Support Network, The

  Located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the Support Network is a "first call for help" for the community. We're here to make sure there is somewhere that people can turn. You can always talk to us. Our centre offers helplines you can call, suicide prevention and bereavement support, a walk-in counselling centre and information on community services.

• Telecare Distress Centre Brampton

  A non-profit organization which offers 24 hr telephone support to those who are lonely, anxious or in need of a compassionate listener. Completely confidential. (905) 459-7777. Telecare also offers a befriending line to children, PhoneFriend, school days 4-7 pm and summer and school breaks from 10am -6pm. (905) 459-4590. Volunteer opportunities as well.

• Telephone Aid Line Kingston (TALK)

  A confidential, anonymous, and nonjudgemental volunteer-based support service. TALK's aim is to meet the needs of a diverse population by providing an empowering, empathetic, and safe environment through the provision of a listening phone service, community outreach, and education.

• Tem Gaak Naagdo Wend Mowin (Local: Port Loring, ON)

  We are a volunteer team of native and non-native likeminded individuals and families who have come together to heal from our past and move forward into the future together in a positive way through our newly formed nonprofit Native Cultural & Spiritual Family Support Centre.

• Tetra Society of North America (International: Vancouver, BC)
  
  
• Tetra Society of Ontario (Regional: Mississauga, ON)

  A nonprofit organization that recruits engineers, technicians, health care professionals and other skilled people to volunteer their time to design and build customized assistive devices for persons with disabilities.

• The Stop Community Food Centre (Local: Toronto, ON)

  The Stop works to increase access to healthy food in a manner that maintains dignity, builds community and challenges inequality. Our community food centre approach melds respectful emergency food delivery with community development, social justice and environmental sustainability.

• Tilbury Information and Help Centre (Local: Tilbury, ON)

  A small community-based agency providing mediated information and referrals to services. We provide transportation for the frail, elderly or disadvantaged. Our food bank provides services on a short-term basis and we also maintain a volunteer registry.

• Tillsonburg & District Multi-Service Centre (Local: Tillsonburg, ON)

  Offers a variety of programs and services including adult basic literacy, employment services for youth and adults, and home support services for seniors and the disabled.

• Toronto CED Learning Network

  We promote healthy communities and increased economic participation through information sharing, education and training, innovative practices, public awareness and promotion of community economic development (CED). Check our website for over 1,200 hyperlinks to free resources and information on the Web.

• Toronto East Counselling and Support Service (Local: Toronto, ON)

  A nonprofit, community based mental health organization that offers a wide range of flexible supports to assist adults with identified mental health issues to live independently.

• Touchstone Family Association (Local: Richmond, BC)

  Touchstone is a nonprofit community-based social service agency that focuses primarily on preserving and enhancing family relationships. Its mission is to strengthen the social health and independence of families and children through effective intervention and support services.

• Trauma/Abuse Recovery for Adult Survivors

  A charitable organization working with adult survivors of childhood trauma and abuse in the Parkland region of Manitoba. The organization provides counselling to adult individuals who are recovering from childhood trauma issues with a focus on men/women requiring assistance in dealing with the trauma of childhood sexual abuse.

• Triage

  Located in Vancouver, British Columbia Triage provides housing and support to homeless people with mental health and/or substance abuse challenges. We offer a safe, supportive environment for people while we work with them to develop a plan for the future.

• UJA Federation of Greater Toronto

  Jewish Toronto offers over 1500 pages of news, entertainment and information with links to the Jewish world at large. It also includes links to the annual UJA Federation fundraising campaign.

• United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada
  For full contact information for any of the 125 United Way - Centraide organizations across Canada, visit the main United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada web site.
  • United Way of Ajax-Pickering
  • Brandon & District United Way Inc.
  • Brant United Way
  • United Way of Burlington, Hamilton-Wentworth
  • United Way - Calgary
  • United Way - Central and South Okanagan/Similkameen
  • United Way - Chatham-Kent
  • Elgin-St. Thomas United Way Services
  • United Way - Fraser Valley - Abbotsford BC
  • United Way - Greater Simcoe County ON
  • United Way Community Services - Guelph and Wellington
  • United Way of Haldimand-Norfolk (Simcoe)
  • United Way - Halifax NS
  • United Way - Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington
  • United Way - Kitchener-Waterloo and Area
  • United Way - London and Middlesex ON
  • United Way/Centraide of the Moncton Region Inc.
  • Centraide of Greater Montreal
  • United Way of Niagara Falls
  • United Way - Oakville
  • United Way - Ottawa-Carleton ON
  • United Way - Peel Region
  • United Way - Prince George BC
  • Centraide Québec
  • United Way - Regina SK
  • United Way - Sarnia-Lambton