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Founded in 1987, Pacific Salmon Foundation is an independent, politically neutral organization dedicated to rebuilding healthy sustainable and naturally divers Pacific salmon stocks. We believe that action is more important than words; that collaboration and partnerships are more effective than finger pointing and blame.

At Ronald McDonald House of Southwestern Ontario, volunteers and staff are committed to helping guest families in an atmosphere filled with hope and support, providing much more than just comfortable and affordable accommodation. While the cost to the House of accommodating a family for one night is more than $75, families are asked to contribute just $10 a night. No family is ever turned away due to an inability to pay. Keeping things so affordable certainly goes a long way toward helping to ease the financial stress of families who discover they must be in the core of a major urban centre for what could be many weeks or months. Imagine the cost of a hotel room and many other daily living expenses incurred, while mortgage or rent and car payments continue to mount up back home. Our extensive services - which include seasonal events, family dinners, laundry, computer and internet access – ensure that all members of the family are supported during an extremely stressful time.

Guelph Food Bank was established by Spiritwind Christian Centre in 1989. Food Bank clients vary in age, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, but they have one thing in common they are all faced with financial hardship. Guelph Food Bank offers help to its clients through: Food Programs - Hamper Program, Perishable Excess Program, Community and Disaster Relief Program Help With Skills - Budget and Debt Counceling, Life Skills Help, Support Refferals and Advocacy Job And Placement Programs - Individual Refferals, Direction for Retraining, Peer Work Programs,Community Service Programs Other Supports and Programs - Clothing Exchange, Adopt-A-Family Christmas Program, Special Events, Garage Sale & Silent Auctions, Community Awareness, Zehrs Tape Collection, Think-Food Inkjet & Cell Phone Recycling Program, Local Sports Subsidy Screening, Family Councelling

Chartered in 1953, Simcoe and District Humane Society volunteers have helped animals in and around Norfolk County. SDHS is a non-profit, charitable organization relying on fundraising activities and donations from members of community. Volunteers look after every aspect of the Society including daily operations and working hands on with the animals from intake to adoption. Foster homes are a great asset to the Society as the organization prepares to raise funds for a much needed building.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) protects Canada's most threatened natural habitats and the species that call them home. Since 1962, NCC and its supporters have protected more than 2.7 million acres (1.1 million hectares) of ecologically sensitive land nationwide.

VISION: Love the experience VALUES: ACCOUNTABILITY: Taking responsibility for meeting the library service needs of the community in an efficient, effective and fiscally responsible manner. ACCESSIBILITY: Ensuring library services are accessible to the community-regardless of indvidual circumstances. COMMUNICATION: Engaging in open dialogue, listening attentively, and responding in such a way as to cultivate understanding and strengthen relationships. INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM: Facilitating access to all expressions of knowledge and intellectual activity. INNOVATION: Constantly challenging current practices, initiating breakthrough improvements, and creating new standards of performance. PARTNERSHIPS: Seeking mutually beneficial partnerships and links with the community to maximize community resources and benefits. QUALITY SERVICE: Providing customer-driven service with professionalism. TRUST AND RESPECT: Acting in good faith and understanding and appreciating differences.

QMUNITY (BC's Queer Resource Centre) serves and supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people and their allies. QMUNITY contributes to the health and well-being of LGBTQ communities through information and referral, education, coming-out groups, social support, recovery meetings, counselling, and community development. Programs at QMUNITY include: Education+Outreach, Gab Youth, Generations Program for Aging and Older LGBTQ People, Out on the Shelves Library, and Volunteer Services.

We provide compassionate care for individuals, their families, friends and caregivers facing a life threatening illness, extending through bereavement. Our services include a Palliative Care program, Bereavement Care program, Caregiver Support and Training.

The Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre exists to support and empower women and children living in extreme poverty in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia. High levels of violence, homelessness, addictions and poverty characterize this area. Women and children are particularly vulnerable to exploitation, injustice and injury. We provide practical support to over 250 women and children daily to help them survive conditions of ill-health, violence and poverty. We work to provide security, basic needs and support. We also encourage women in making long-term changes by identifying and removing barriers to full participation in a larger community.

Our goal is to ensure that all persons live in a state of dignity, share in all elements of living in the community and have the opportunity to participate effectively.

The John Howard Society of Alberta is a non-profit agency concerned with the problem of crime and its prevention. The organization takes its name and spirit from the 18th century humanitarian John Howard, whose name has become a symbol of humane consideration for prisoners. It was incorporated in 1949, and today the organization consists of six separately incorporated districts along with the Provincial Office. We believe that crime control is as much the responsibility of the community as it is of government. Through involvement with the John Howard Society, as members or volunteers, people in the community play an active role in the criminal justice process by providing programs for offenders and their families, ex-offenders, young persons and the public.

Kids in foster care often have amazing talents which need to be encouraged and developed. Each child comes with a unique set of life experiences, and so the plan for their development has to be based on understanding those needs. All too often they don't receive the same opportunities as kids who get to grow up with their bio-parent. Everyday life can present enormous difficulties for kids in foster care to overcome. They often feel like they don't belong, can't learn, and aren't successful. They are at risk of emotional disturbances, delayed social development and poor educational performance. SOS BC aspires to enrich the life of every child and family we get involved with. We want kids to navigate successfully through life, so we provide a host of activities and programs that we consider necessary for their positive development.