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The Stop’s work is based on the belief that food is a basic human right. Each year over 14,000 people access our centre for food, social support and advocacy. Although not often attracting the kind of attention it deserves, the hunger crisis in Toronto is severe. A recent study of our food bank members showed that 51% of them go hungry at least once a week. This inability to consistently access food translates into problems such as poor health and social isolation -- issues that ultimately affect us all as a society. While The Stop is probably best known for its food bank, we also run breakfast and lunch programs, offer pre- and postnatal nutrition and support, facilitate group cooking classes and grow food in a local park and greenhouse for many of our programs. The Stop is a vibrant place that is a well-respected leader in the food security sector.

In the past year, The Food Bank of Waterloo Region, assisted approximately 28,000 neighbours in Waterloo Region. Yearly, The Food Bank distributes over 3 million pounds of food to community individuals who are facing challenging circumstances. Food is distributed through a partnership of 76 member agencies and community programs which provide emergency food hampers and meals. For a full description of our programs and food distribution, please see our website at www.thefoodbank.ca. If you would like a copy of our annual financial statement, please contact us at (519) 743-5576.

The Alzheimer Society of Simcoe County is a registered charitable organization. The Society offers a variety of quality education and support services designed to meet the different needs of persons with Alzheimer's disease or other dementia and their network of caregivers. These include: - Information Service - Supportive Counselling - Community Referral - Caregiver Support Groups - Support Group for Persons with Alzheimer's disease - Caregiver Education - Professional and Public Education The Alzheimer Society of Simcoe County relies on the generosity of the community to achieve its goals. Giving has never been easier now that we can accept secure online donations with the assistance of CanadaHelps.org.

CNIB is a nationwide, community-based, registered charity committed to research, public education and vision health for all Canadians. CNIB provides the services and support necessary for people to enjoy a good quality of life while living with vision loss.

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.

Mission Services of London is a Christian Social Services Agency which exists to meet the need of disadvantaged persons in our community. We provide emergency shelter, food, rehabilitative counselling and advocacy at both Rotholme Women's and Family Shelter and at the Mens' Mission and Rehabilitation Centre. We provide addictions treatment in a long term residential program and transitional housing at Quintin Warner House. Our Community Mental Health Programs address the needs of the homeless or near- homeless mentally ill, through outreach workers in the Streetscape program, Safe Haven, Crash Beds, and the Life Skills training. The Mission Store provides clothing, bedding, and household articles at low cost or free (by means of a voucher program.) The principle on which Mission Services ...operates ... is simply to love our neighbour as ourselves.

Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter was founded in 1973. We are a non-profit volunteer based organization. We provide a transition house for battered women and a rape crisis centre with a 24-hour crisis line for women that are raped/sexually assaulted. Our services includes peer counseling, accompaniment, advocacy and free legal clinic. As well, we are a women's organizing centre that provides public education speakers regarding all aspects of violence against women. All our services are free and confidential.

TO OUR SPONSORS - At this time, monthly Sponsorship payments cannot be made through CanadaHelps. Please visit WorldVision.ca for more information. OUR CORE VALUES 1. We are Christian. From the abundance of God's love, we find our call to ministry. 2. We are committed to the poor. We are called to relieve their suffering and to promote the transformation of their condition of life. 3. We value people. We regard all people as created and loved by God. We give priority to people before money, structure, and systems. 4. We are stewards. We are faithful to the purpose for which resources are given and manage them in a manner that brings maximum benefit to the poor. 5. We are partners. We are members of an international World Vision Partnership that transcends legal, structural, and cultural boundaries. 6. We are responsive. We are responsive to the life-threatening emergencies where our involvement is needed and appropriate.

The Red Door has once again been recognized by Charity Intelligence Canada as a 2011 Top Pick Charity! (www.charityintelligence.ca). The success of the Red Door and the families we serve is dependent on the continued support of generous donors like you! Every gift you make has a direct and long lasting impact on the hundreds of families living in crisis who come to the Red Door in search of a new beginning. Please give generously and join us in the effort to permanently end each families episode with homelessness.

As a not-for-profit Christian faith community, we acknowledge that every person is created in the image of God and has inherent value and dignity. We assist as many people as possible to experience full participation in society. Since 1896, Yonge Street Mission has been reaching out to meet the needs of people living in poverty in Toronto. Our diverse programs have made a positive difference in the lives of families, seniors, socially isolated adults, street-involved youth and children growing up in our low-income community.

YWS is Etobicoke's singular emergency residence and referral agency serving homeless youth between the ages of 16 and 24. The 30 bed Emergency Residential Program meets the immediate needs of the youth by providing safe shelter, crisis counselling, nutritious food, clothing and hygiene products. Residents are given access to life skills training sessions and workshops through YWS's Steps to Success and Housing Programs. An Employment Program aims to alleviate the obstacles youth encounter in finding and maintaining employment. A Stay in School Program offers longer-term accommodation for up to 20 youth while they focus on completing their education. Youth Without Shelter' s vision is to end homelessness, one youth at a time, one step at a time.