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The LCHS is committed to the humane treatment of all animals and actively performs cruelty investigations in St. Catharines, Lincoln, Grimsby, Thorold and Niagara-on-the-Lake. Taking in over 4,500 animals each year and adopting cats to forever homes for only $25, the LCHS needs your financial support to continue our important work. Your gift will truly help the animals in our care. On behalf of our Board, staff and volunteers - thank you for your kind contribution to the animals.

Civic Nebraska works to create a more modern and robust democracy for all Nebraskans. While our organization is divided into three program areas, Civic Health, Youth Civic Engagement, and Voting Rights, these programs work in tandem to invest in the lives of Nebraskans. Our core organizational goals include improving the pillars of social and civic health which enable residents to feel more confident in their political institutions, more socially connected to their home and neighbors, increase civic engagement, and help individuals feel empowered to participate politically.

Debatable Productions’ vision, since its foundation, has been to provide a creative home for talented young professionals 16-25 years old. We saw a need in the community for professional programs that can give the necessary experience to this age group. Often forgotten in the land between “too old for kid’s programs” and “not enough experience” for professional work, serious creatives find it hard to gather more experience while simultaneously working on more mature material. We provide a creative, professional environment for young talent to flourish.

Grace Christian School is a private, provincially-certified, K-12 academic educational institution in Charlottetown, PE; We are a ministry of Grace Baptist Church. Our desire is to work with parents to implement a positive learning atmosphere which affects both home and school. We have more than twenty-five years experience in teaching young people from a Christian worldview. As a school, we desire that students learn that Christianity is relevant to our culture. Upon graduation, students are prepared to invest their lives in impacting the world for Christ.

Food4Kids provides backpacks of healthy food for kids with limited or no food during weekend periods. Packages of healthy foods are prepared off-site by volunteers and delivered to schools each Friday to ensure children have nourishment over the weekend. Each food package contains kid friendly, non-perishable and easy to prepare meals with maximum nutrient value. For many children, hunger is not an occasional missed meal... it is a way of life. Children are often helpless in controlling the food supply in their homes. Food4Kids ensures children lacking food are provided with nourishment vital to their physical, emotional, cognitive, social and academic success. The cost per backpack is $10.00 or $400 to feed a child for an entire school year.

For over 27 years in Durham Region, Girls Inc. has helped girls at-risk achieve their full potential. We've provided thousands of girls knowledge, skills, and attitudes to overcome social, emotional, and economic challenges in order to achieve their full potential. Girls who participate in Girls Inc. programs: Grow self-esteem that carries over to home, school, and the community; Develop sound decision-making and communication skills; Assert themselves as confident individuals throughout their lives; Build key leadership and strong work skills; Create meaningful, supportive peer groups. Programs cover a variety of topics such as: - Body image and self esteem - Bullying and violence prevention - Health & relationships - Peer pressure - Substance use prevention - Science, math & technology - Financial literacy - Sports participation

Daytrippers is a registered charity led by a volunteer group of young professionals dedicated to giving back to the community. Daytrippers-sponsored trips are often the only vehicle through which underprivileged children can explore the world beyond their neighbourhoods and gain new perspectives on the world. Thanks to funds raised by Daytrippers, inner-city children have visited conservation areas, gone camping, and walked through a forest for the first time. And children from rural areas have visited Parliament in Ottawa, the Royal Ontario Museum, and many other cultural institutions that are inaccessible in their home environment. We cannot run these trips without your help. With your donation, everybody wins: STUDENTS get an educational and fun experience that they will remember for a lifetime, TEACHERS get to take their classes to a whole new learning environment like nothing they can offer in school, and YOU get to make a difference - and get a tax receipt.

Since 1983 Children's Place has offered a wide range of flexible, accessible, FREE early learning & family support programs. Today we serve over 2000 families from 11 different locations in central west Toronto. Programs include: family drop-ins, child development activities focusing on & exploring senses & developing motor skills, occasional childcare, community outreach, family literacy, food & nutrition support, parent & caregiver support & education, peer contact & mutual support, play & recreation, health & safety promotion, information about & referrals to other resources, toy & book lending. Our staff and volunteers are able to communicate in different languages including English, Portuguese, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Somali, Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu & Italian. Participants include: young children 0 to 6, parents, expectant parents, very young parents, parents/caregivers/children with special needs, grandparents, nannies & home providers, newcomer & immigrant families.

Lumberyard, one of the nation's leading contemporary performing arts institutions, serves the performing arts community and its audiences by providing multi-faceted opportunities for artists to develop new work. Unwavering in its commitment to assisting artists throughout the creative process, Lumberyard operates with a collaborative and generous spirit, one driven by this support for artists and appreciation for the audiences who value their work. Lumberyard's history goes back to 1999 when, thanks to founder and benefactor Solange MacArthur, it began as American Dance Institute (ADI), a dance school based in Rockville, Maryland. In 2010, after looking closely at the challenges facing the American contemporary dance field, ADI changed course to focus on artist-centered programs that include residency and performance opportunities. This new direction resulted in what is now Lumberyard's stellar reputation for providing this much needed support, with the Incubator residency program, introduced in 2011, especially praised. Lumberyard also serves emerging artists through its Solange MacArthur Award and Future Artists Initiative. In summer 2016, Lumberyard responded to artists' requests for residencies to culminate with a New York City performance season by launching Lumberyard/NYC, an initiative undertaken in collaboration with New York City theater spaces, which, to this day, not only supports artists but also serves audiences who, at affordable ticket prices, have the chance to see a wide range of contemporary dance. Lumberyard will experience more exciting change in 2018 when it opens new facilities in a former lumberyard in Catskill New York, a town approximately two hours from New York City, positioned beautifully between the Hudson River and the Catskill Creek that was once the home of painter Thomas Cole, founder of the renowned Hudson River School. The renovation of the lumberyard, a four-building complex, will produce fabulous studios and housing, allowing Lumberyard to expand its mission of supporting artists throughout the creative process by being able to increase the number of residencies and performance opportunities available to them. The site will also include a state-of-the art performing arts space, certain to become a cultural destination for Catskill residents and for those traveling to the region. By taking ownership of this property, Lumberyard will connect audiences to some of the best and most provocative performances being created today, and the excitement of seeing works in preview before they premier in less intimate venues will extend beyond the stage to include receptions and talk backs with artists. Catskill residents will also benefit by access to a delightful courtyard that will host a farmers' market and other community events.

GLOBAL TRIBE - REINVENTING THE WAR ON POVERTY - IT BEGAN WITH A QUESTIONWHY ARE THEIR SO MANY CHILDREN LIVING IN POVERTY?HERE IS THE ANSWER! It is because there are so many single mothers, abused, abandoned, or widowed, left to raise children on about $1 a day - for the whole family! 900 million single mothers worldwide, earning just $1 a day. The reality is, rescue a single mother and you rescue her children. Seven out of 10 children live in a single mother home. Cesar Uribe, our partner in Tecate, Mexico operates the Children's Miracle Home, for orphans. Cesar mentioned 400 single moms living below the poverty level near the home. That raised the question in our mind about the most effective approach to fighting poverty.REINVENTING THE WAR ON POVERTY Since 1992, Global Tribe has been in the business of helping children trapped in poverty, in Asia, India, Mexico, Romania, and beyond. The war on poverty is ongoing, and we are called to step up the fight. To help impoverished children we are going to the source of their crisis. This expanded vision is truly an expansion of the work we have always done. Re-focused.The result of our prayerful consideration is God's expansion of what we do, helping children living in poverty by rescuing their single mother and their siblings. The New Faces of Global TribeWe have identified over 400 single mothers and their children down in Tecate just one section of the war-zone on the Mexican border. This was the beginning of a new focus! We realized that 81% of global poverty is among this suffering group - 900 million single mothers globally, trying to raise their kids on next to nothing.The Global Tribe Metaphor You have heard the saying, "Give a mother a fish and you will feed her for a day, teach her how to fish and you will feed her for a life-time". Global Tribe takes this a step further, not only teaching her to fish, but also providing the micro-loan needed to purchase a fishing rod and a bike so she can transport her fish to market. In this way we give her a hand-up, not a hand-out, stabilizing and establishing the single mother and her family for life, giving her the independence, dignity, and security she deserves. It is said, that it takes a village to raise a child; so Global Tribe in partnership with world class leaders, and the mothers themselves, are focused on developing sustainable communities, with safe homes, clean drinking water, agriculture, education and the economic engine of micro-enterprise lending, kick-starting new business, the life-blood of a sustainable future.THE MISSIONGlobal Tribe Creed: To safeguard the helpless and do them no harm; to show courage on behalf of those who can't defend themselves. James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress... From the very beginning, Global Tribe was birthed out of a passion to bring aid, relief, and sustainability for the poorest of the poor - widows and orphans. This mission is executed in three distinct ways:1. Providing emergency relief for those in peril and critical distress, stabilizing the person to enable them to grow to individual sustainability; the primary focus is single mothers and their children.2. Providing training and education to the poor, especially single mothers, teaching them a vocation, life skills, and hygiene, which lays the foundation for sustainability. Moreover, once trained, equipping the individual through micro-loans to accomplish what they are trained to do to earn a living.3. Providing both the environment and the substance to teach leadership through life experience as well as mentoring, teaching thinking and reasoning skills, and strategies for effective leadership.