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The Nelson Community Services Centre (NCSC)is a multi-service, multi-funded non-profit agency. The NCSC has been working in their community since 1972.

How your Donation is used Imagine not having a home of your own to return to each night. Imagine spending over 60% of your monthly income on rent and having to choose between that or food. Imagine living on a disability pension and having critical health supports, such as orthotics, cut from your benefits. Or imagine being a person with a disability willing and able to work and only finding doors close rather than open. These situations are real and exist right here in our community. You have probably heard about them, read about them in the newspaper, or indeed, you know someone who is living them. If you are like me, you care deeply about the impact of these conditions on people’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and ultimately on the health of the community. With your help, we can work to bring about change — change that will renew people’s hope and faith in themselves and in their community. Imagine what we can do together!

The Nelson Waldorf School is a Class One Independent School situated in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. It educates students from Kindergarten through Grade Eight by balancing the head, heart, and hands using the Waldorf, or Steiner, education philosophy. The well-rounded academic curriculum, enlivened by the arts, music, movement, and foreign language, provides a learning environment that fosters creativity, healthy social interactions, and ethical development.

Located in the West Kootenay area of B.C., Nelson & District Hospice Society serves Nelson & the East Shore of Kootenay Lake through one-on-one volunteering, grief support, volunteer training, and community education programs. When making a donation, please indicate which area you supporting (Nelson, East Shore)

The Nelson Women's Centre has a drop-in program that has been providing support for women and children of the area for the past 40 years. Women can receive free food, toiletries, clothing, counseling, referrals and a friendly place to be. In addition, the Centre provides a month-long free volunteer skills development training, a youth project focusing on gender-based issues, an intergenerational textile skills project, a feminist library, and many events in the community.

The Nelson Food Cupboard is a barrier-free food bank; we allow people to come to our food bank as often as they need and don’t ask them to justify why they need our services. We respect their rights to privacy and dignity and aim to create a welcoming and safe atmosphere for all. We serve over 1,000 people every month and aim to meet their diverse family and dietary needs with healthy foods. Our Food Cupboard customers come from Nelson and the surrounding towns and rural areas. One quarter are children. Many of our customers struggle to make ends meet on social assistance, some work for low wages and support families, and others are in transitional periods of their lives. Additionally, we operate Harvest Rescue, a program that rescues unwanted fresh food from local farmers and gardeners and redistributes it at our food bank and other social service agencies in Nelson. We also give out bountiful Holiday Hampers to over 160 families and individuals at Christmastime.

OUR VALUES A Sense of Community ~ Being Inclusive ~ Caring ~Growing Spiritually ~ Meaningful Worship ~ Reaching Out