Vancouver Food Runners is an innovative food recovery organization that uses app technology and a team of volunteer drivers to redirect food from 150+ businesses to 150+ nonprofit partners in the Metro Vancouver region. In 4.5 years, VFR volunteers (3,400+ registered on the app) have delivered 4.1+ million pounds of healthy food (3.4+ million equivalent meals), also mitigating 6.9+ million pounds of CO2eq.

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To provide packages of healthy food for elementary school students with little or no access to food during the weekend and throughout the summer.

La rue des Femmes offers therapeutic and preventive relational health care to women who are in a state of homelessness. It offers a response to basic needs and therapeutic care aimed at healing their trauma, improving their wellbeing, which is essential for safety, restoring social ties and rebuilding their lives. The organization is also committed to raising public awareness of this major societal issue, and to changing the paradigm of homelessness.

Hope for Dementia is a charitable organization whose mission is to support the prevention, early diagnosis and treatment of dementia and other cognitive disorders.

Parker Street Mission is a dedicated community organization committed to its mission of providing essential support to those in need. Through collaborative efforts, we offer food, furniture and emergency assistance to empower and uplift individuals facing challenging circumstances. Our unwavering commitment to our community ensures that no one is left without crucial resources and assistance during their time of need.

Our Children of the Street program works to educate young people to learn how to keep themselves and their peers safe from all forms of sexual exploitation while also supporting children and families already affected by this crime.

I Challenge Diabetes was founded by Chris Jarvis, a Canadian Olympic rower with type 1 diabetes. Throughout Chris's athletic career, he noticed that there was limited understanding and support for those living with type 1 diabetes. Therefore, he founded I Challenge Diabetes with the mission to connect, support and empower people living with diabetes with the skills and resources necessary to lead healthy, inspired lives.

Our mission is to serve the hurting, hungry and homeless people in our community who are dealing with food insecurity, illness, disabilities, addictions and chronic unemployment. We offer a weekly food bank, soup kitchen, clothing and household items exchange store and a men's shelter. We provide all of these for free through fundraising efforts with corporate and individual contributions.

The Alzheimer Society of New Brunswick exists to alleviate the personal and social consequences of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias through the provision of support, education and advocacy, and to promote the search for a cause and a cure.

Food Stash reduces food waste and food insecurity. We recover over 80,000 pounds of surplus food per month (e.g. imperfect produce, surplus dairy) from retailers, wholesalers and farms. We deliver weekly customized boxes of healthy food to 110 food-insecure households with chronic illnesses and/or disabilities. We run a 'pay-what-you-feel' Rescued Food Market open to all, serving 100+ people weekly. We deliver food to 35 partner charities collectively serving 14,000+ people weekly.

Offer young people living with multiple disabilities, and seriously ill children, respite care and pediatric palliative care over the course of their lives. The organization promotes the right to self-actualization, despite the complexity and severity of the disability or illness.

CancerCare Manitoba's mission is to reduce and, where possible, eliminate the burden of cancer on the people of Manitoba. Their pediatric oncology department is committed to reducing the rates of childhood cancer and blood disorders, and increasing survival rates.

Teach For Canada partners with remote First Nations to realize a country in which every child has access to high-quality education in their community. We recruit, prepare and retain educators committed to helping students succeed. Since 2015, nearly 300 Teach For Canada teachers have impacted 6,000+ students across 21 remote First Nations. Results to date have shown high rates of teacher retention and improvements in student outcomes, including attendance and engagement.

Our vision is that every school age child in Newfoundland and Labrador has access to food at school, at no cost to families. Kids Eat Smart Foundation Newfoundland and Labrador is a registered charity that partners with schools, communities, volunteers and sponsors to support the education, health and wellbeing of school age children through Kids Eat Smart Clubs. Run by volunteers in schools and community centres throughout the province, we serve 31,000 meals every school day.

Provide financial support to the Centre de prévention du suicide Accalmie so that it can continue to offer professional and specialized assistance to the public through telephone intervention, housing, support for loved ones and the bereaved, postvention and training; all with the aim of preventing suicide and mitigating its impact. The Foundation is also committed to raising awareness of the issue of suicide in our community.

Children's Health Foundation proudly raises funds for Children's Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre, offering advanced paediatric care in its service region of Western Ontario. Our mission is to deliver excellent and compassionate patient and family-centred care to children facing life-threatening or life-limiting health conditions. Our medical professionals have expertise in over 30 different medical specialities and staff are trained to meet the unique social, emotional and developmental needs of a paediatric population.

Since 1981 Crossroads for Women has been empowering and assisting survivors of violence by providing education, resources, emergency shelter, counseling and crisis intervention 24/7 for southeastern New Brunswick. Crossroads for Women is the only domestic violence and sexual assault shelter in southeastern New Brunswick, and the largest shelter of its kind in the Atlantic region, offering a total of 38 beds to women and children fleeing domestic violence.

The Phare Enfants et Familles provides respite to families of children with life-threatening illnesses needing pediatric palliative care. The respite service is offered weekly in the family home or for a few consecutive days at the Maison André-Gratton in Montreal. Volunteers involved in the program entertain and care for the children to give parents and siblings a quality respite with peace of mind.

Our mission is to improve the quality of life for children in Ontario with serious illnesses and life-altering conditions, as well as their families. We provide financial support to Ontario families with limited incomes for costs related to their child’s treatment and care. Through our Respite Care Program, we provide financial support to parents and primary caregivers for the cost of ongoing respite care, providing them with a much needed mental and physical break.

The mission of the Centre d’aide aux proches aidants des Basques is to ease the daily lives of family caregivers so that they can continue helping the care recipient. This is the only organization in the Lower Saint-Lawrence whose mission is specifically dedicated to supporting family caregivers. The organization works with all family caregivers, regardless of the age or medical condition of the care recipient.

The AISQ’s mission is to promote the well-being and quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities and their loved ones, protect their interests, defend their rights and create living conditions that meet their needs.

Through its action, it contributes to the development of an inclusive and kind society in which people with intellectual disabilities can fully participate.

The mission of Communautés solidaires is to develop and offer assessment, intervention, follow-up, and training services to people who are experiencing psychological distress or struggling with a mental health issue. The organization aims to provide these individuals with the tools they need to achieve a sense of well-being within their community.

Our mission is to strengthen the quality of life for children, youth, and families from across Niagara who are dealing with mental health challenges. Our goal is to ensure no child waits more than 30 days for therapy. We have a vision of mental wellness for all children, youth, and families.

At Pathstone, we see over 6,200 children each year, and those numbers continue to grow.

The mission of the KRTB Suicide Prevention Centre (KRTB SPC) is to meet the needs of KRTB (Kamouraska/Rivière-du-Loup/Témiscouata/Les Basques) residents with regards to suicide by working primarily with people who are suicidal, their families, people bereaved by suicide, people who intervene in suicide attempts or suicides, and vulnerable people at risk of suicide.

CMHA Swift Current facilitates access to the resources people require to maintain and improve mental health and community integration, build resilience, and support recovery from mental illness.

Bullying Ends Here is devoted to our crusade against the senseless act of bullying and cruelty that our young people face, and we are committed to our mission of not simply changing lives, but SAVING them! We do this through gimmick-free presentations to schools across the country. We reach close to 100,000 youth a year and have no desire to slow down!

Our mission is to use sports as a tool to help students at high risk of dropping out to stay in—and succered—in school. We focus on sports and personal fulfillment as a way to keep students in school because we are convinced that all young people have the ability and the right to enjoy a better future. We bear out our vision by promoting the following four values: passion, perseverance, cooperation, and pride.

Look Good Feel Better (LGFB) is Canada’s only charitable cancer program dedicated to empowering women to manage the effects that cancer and its treatment have on their appearance. LGFB offers a workshop for women and teen girls with cancer in both English and French. At the workshops, women with cancer learn about cosmetic hygiene, skin care, hair loss, as well as hair alternatives including information on wigs. The workshop is currently offered in 113 cancer care facilities and hospitals across Canada - creating an environment, building community and camaraderie, among survivors knowing they are not alone in such challenging times.