| Canada World Youth (Canada) |
Canada World Youth is a national, non-governmental organization that provides young people under the age of 30, from Canada and around the world, with the opportunity to travel, live and work in different communities, to learn about local and international development, and to obtain important job skills for the future.
Canada World Youth programs operate in Canada and counries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Central and Eastern Europe.
Programs:
Canada World Youth offers four different programs. The largest is the Youth Exchange Program which involves a reciprocal student exchange with participating countries. While abroad and in Canada, youths work for voluntary sector organizations for three to six months.
The Canadian International Development Agency helps fund the program as well as exchange country partners, and thousands of donors across Canada.
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| Canadian Centre for Philanthropy (Canada) |
The Canadian Centre for Philanthropy is a national charitable organization dedicated to advancing the role and interests of the charitable sector for the benefit of Canadian communities. The Centre is a membership-based, leadership organization for charitable, voluntary organizations, and the corporations and foundations that support them. The Centre generates and gathers information and analysis about the environment in which Canadian charities operate. They help strengthen charitable, voluntary, and non-profit organizations through public affairs, research, information resources, and the Imagine program.
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| Canadian Crossroads International (Canada) |
Canadian Crossroads International (CCI) is an international non-profit organization, supported by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), other government and non-government funders and many individual donors around the world. It is dedicated to building a constituency of global citizens committed to voluntarism, international development and social action in the new millennium. Some of their goals include: to promote cross-cultural understanding and sustainable development, to educate Canadian volunteers by providing them with opportunities to live and work in a developing country, as well as educating volunteers from developing countries by having them work in Canada or other developed counties, as well as to promote understanding of root causes of inequitable development.
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| Cowichan Valley Intercultural & Immigrant Aid Society (Canada) |
To build mutual respect, trust, support and education in the cultural diverse community of the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island. We provide service, information, and support to new immigrants and new Canadians for their integration into Canadian society. As well, we facilitate sharing on common issues across cultures. Some examples of such issues are: language acquisition, community access, immigration, employment & economic integration, cultural adjustment and preservation. We have served the community for over 22 years. Throughout the period, numerous services, programs, and functions have been offered to immigrants and the general public to promote social justice and unity in the community.
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| Hiiye'yu Lelum (Canada) |
The Hiiye'yu Lelum (House of Friendship) Society provides health, social, recreational and cultural services to promote individual, family and community self-reliance. These services address the needs and aspirations of aboriginal people and focus on well-being within a cross-cultural context.
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| Humanica Social Ventures plc. (United Kingdom) |
Promoting the development of entrapreneurial solutions to social development. The innovation of a Private - Private - Partnership where entrepreneurs in the Global North invest their reources/time/contacts in entrepreneurs of the Global South.
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| Institute For Global Communication (United States) |
IGC shares the vision to actively promote change toward a healthy society, one that is founded on principles of social justice, broadly shared economic opportunity, a robust democratic process, and sustainable environmental practices. The Mission of IGC is to advance the work of progressive organizations and individuals for peace, justice, economic opportunity, human rights, democracy and environmental sustainability through strategic use of online technologies. Today IGC Internet offers progressive individuals and groups a place on the Internet to learn, meet and organize. IGC Internet is changing to take its community of activists and nonprofit professionals into the Internet's next wave by focusing on content, information sharing and new, collaborative tools.
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| Omusema Unity Foundation (Namibia) |
A Namibian Baha'i- inspired non-governmental organisation (NGO) with projects dealing with Village Banking, Moral Leadership facilitation, Youth Enrichment etc.
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| Partnership for Pichon (Haiti) |
Pichon is a village in southeast Haiti, isolated by
rugged mountains and rugged roads. The Partnership
began in August 1999 when Michigan (USA) visitors
asked villagers how they could assist with development
there. Pichon's needs are many, but the request was to
start a school. By June 2003 there were 165 students,
6 locally recruited and trained teachers, and an active
Parent Committee. Economic development efforts are
now being started to support the area through micro-
credit and community banking programs. A non-profit
organization in Port-au-Prince links North American
and Pichon resources in a spirit of partnership. North
American partners visit Pichon several times each year
to maintain a personal sense of connection between
the two communities.
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| Providence Farm (Canada) |
Providence Farm is a therapeutic community where Horticultural Therapy and Vocational Rehabilitation are used as tools to provide programs for people with barriers to education and employment. The Sisters of St. Ann own the beautiful 400 acre property that lies at the base of Mount Tzouhalem, in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island. The Vancouver Island Providence Community Association has leased the farm and has developed innovative programs for the community since 1979. Today there are 14 full and part time staff and over 120 participants that come up our driveway each week. The success of our programs is based on the premise that caring for the land together is healing and therapeutic by nature.
?The ultimate goal of farming is not the cultivation of crops, but the growth and development of people?
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| The Mongolian Development Centre (Mongolia) |
The Mongolian Development Centre (MDC) is dedicated to serving society by empowering individuals and families through education and training, to develop to the fullest their inherent intellectual, material and spiritual capabilities and potential.
Projects are developed through a process of consultation that involves a profound and continuous exchange of ideas and opinions. The projects have a strong “demonstration effect” within a community whereby families not directly enrolled in a project are encouraged to undertake similar activities.
MDC has primarily worked on child and family development issues resulting in two major Programs:
1) Child Development: Aims to develop the moral capabilities in children and junior youth and upgrade teachers’ capacity to work with children. The two projects under this program are “Enhancing the Learning Environment for Junior Youth” and “Early Childhood Character Development”.
2) Capacity Development of Families in their Neighborhoods: Develops the capacities of families to work in groups for the betterment of their neighborhoods. It includes the community development project that seeks to empower family groups to enhance their ability to be of service to society as well as enhance local food security and the nutritional content of the diet of low-income families and children. Several projects have been implemented in 5 different provinces since 1994.
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| WISE - Wellbeing thru Inclusion Socially & Economically (Canada) |
WISE began in the summer of 2003 as one woman's vision. In exasperation with a system that had no heart "Chris" wrote her story of painful marginalization. With the urging of friends the story came to the attention of an understanding Programs Officer at Status of Women Canada. They convinced Chris to write a proposal for a project.
WISE is now a registered nonprofit society whose GOALS include:
1. raising the collective voice of persons living in poverty due to policies of exclusion
2. changing public understanding of poverty as a socioeconomic inevitability, to that of social and economic exclusion
3. having policymakers recognize that the worsening economic situation of an increasing number of British Columbians has a systemic cause
Until public understanding of poverty changes, we consider it unlikely that politicians will do more than pay lip service to the increasing problem of poverty in BC.
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