We congratulate all of our Community Impact Grant Recipients
Since 2017, our Community Impact Grants have funded an array of charitable programs, impacting diverse communities across the country.
2025 Recipients
Health & Wellbeing
Blooming House Women's Shelter
Charlottetown, PEI
The Next Steps Program guides women from emergency shelter to long-term housing. Ongoing supports to address mental health needs, life skills, and employment are also provided.
Chilliwack Community Services Society
Chilliwack, BC
Better Beginnings provides low-income families with food, education, and resources to aid in a healthy start to their child's life with weekly sessions from prenatal to postpartum 6 months.
Compassionate Care Centre of Southern NB
Saint John, NB
The Connecting Communities to Healing program offers anyone navigating loss welcoming peer support at The Grief Cafe with several new locations to increase access to care.
End Sexual Violence NL
St. John's, NL
The Fireweed Counselling Collective offers trauma-informed counselling for survivors of gender-based violence in Labrador.
Fernie Youth Services
Toronto, ON
Beat Builders provides music therapy for marginalized and justice-involved young men, utilizing music as a therapeutic tool to foster emotional resilience, self-regulation, and coping strategies.
Harvest House Atlantic Inc.
Moncton, NB
Harvesting Hope: Skills for Stability incorporates life skills development and job readiness training for adults aged 18-64 recovering from homelessness and addiction, integrating counselling, soft skills workshops and employment preparation.
Inner Hope Youth Ministries Society
Vancouver, BC
The Boundless Life Skills program empowers Indigenous youth through mentorship, life skills training, and community gatherings grounded in Medicine Wheel teachings, achieving an 80% high school graduation rate.
Leave Out Violence (LOVE) Society BC
Vancouver, BC
MAP-Leadership is a skill-building program for low-income youth including work experience opportunities, community engagement, cultural events, mental health workshops, art creation and exhibition, and more.
Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides
Oakville, ON
The Facility Support Dog Guide Program trains specialized dog guides to support people who are visually impaired, hard of hearing, have autism, epilepsy, or diabetes.
MacPhee Centre for Creative Learning
Dartmouth, NS
The Art of Becoming: Creative Exploration as a Pathway for Youth Wellbeing supports BIPOC, LGBTQ+, newcomer, and low-income youth by combining mental health programming with creative exploration through filmmaking, fashion design, pottery, and other artistic disciplines.
Richmond Family Place Society
Richmond, BC
The Family Wellness Exchange supports newcomer families with tailored support and connection, including books, games, and guided activities for kids ages 0-12.
Saskatoon Council on Aging Inc.
Saskatoon, SK
The Age Well Through Social Connections program offers drop-in gatherings, computer literacy classes, pen pal opportunities and more to promote social connection among older adults in Saskatoon and rural areas across Saskatchewan.
Shelter Movers
Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Safe and Supported Transitions for Survivors program provides secure, discreet moving support for individuals leaving domestic violence, using unmarked vehicles, trained volunteers, private security, language interpreters, and other wraparound services to ensure a safe transition to a new home or shelter.
Stigma Free Mental Health Society
Victoria, BC
Rural Minds Matter is a peer-based mental health program that trains local residents with lived experience to provide support in rural and remote communities.
The Eating Disorder Foundation of NL
St. John's, NL
Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) provides workshops for families impacted by eating disorders.
The Kettle Friendship Society
Vancouver, BC
The Recovery Café offers low-barrier, peer-led recovery support for individuals living with mental health and substance use challenges with a wide range of wrap-around support for the recovery journey.
The Portage Program Drug Dependencies Inc.
Fredericton, NB
The Portage Atlantic Community Care Program supports youth aged 14-21 with treatment resistant addictions through comprehensive assessment, group meetings, and preparedness sessions for live-in treatment.
The PREP Society for Individuals with Down Syndrome
Calgary, AB
Therapeutic Services for Children, Youth, and Teens with Down Syndrome supports young people with access to resources including education, speech, occupational therapy, social skills, and more to empower them with equitable and inclusive opportunities.
Wellspring Chinguacousy Foundation
Brampton, ON
Wellspring’s Exercise and Movement Programming provides personalized 12-week training designed to maintain health and comfort during cancer treatments, as well as group movement classes to foster community.
Windsor Baptist Refugee Ministries
Windsor, ON
Empowering Refugees for Success addresses family food insecurity, mental health, housing, and employment through coordinated services to enable a safe start in Canada.
Food Security
Anti-Hunger Coalition Timmins
Timmins, ON
The Good Food Box is a monthly program providing families with fresh produce. Each box includes a variety of fruits and vegetables offering a simple way to eat healthier on a budget or fixed income.
Applegrove Community Complex
Toronto, ON
Food Champions engages seniors to prepare and distribute meal kits, host monthly luncheons and outings to break isolation and address food insecurity.
Brighter Futures Family Resource Society
Drayton Valley, AB
Healthy Foundations food program supports families with children ages 0-5 with grocery store vouchers for nutritious meals and formula.
Brunswick Street Mission
Halifax, NS
The Healthy Minds Program offers food security expansion with frozen meal kits, including recipe cards and nutrition information, to support larger families and increased food literacy.
Colchester Community Support Society
Truro, NS
With the Canning & Preserving with An Indigenous Lens Program, Indigenous leaders teach how to grow, harvest, and preserve food from the community healing garden to promote food security and cultural teachings.
Dickinsfield Amity House
Edmonton, AB
The Emergency Food Hamper & Bread Distribution Program provides free emergency food hampers and bread to individuals and families facing immediate food insecurity in north Edmonton.
Food Stash Foundation
Vancouver, BC
The Rescued Food Box program supports and improves health and wellbeing by delivering weekly customized grocery boxes to low-income Vancouver residents with disabilities and chronic illnesses.
Just Friends Food Bank Inc
Stanley, NB
The Student Hunger Program provides comprehensive meal programs for kids including bagged lunches, grab & go breakfast, snack packs, weekend backpacks, and a welcome baby bundle.
Mada Community Center
Montréal, QC
Meals on Wheels is a compassionate meal delivery program designed to provide warm and nutritious meals to individuals who are homebound or isolated, delivered by friendly volunteers offering connection.
Northreach Society
Grand Prairie, AB
Helping Hands is a food bank set up like a grocery-store, allowing community members the dignity of choice to select food for their families and reduce food insecurity in their homes.
Siloam Mission Inc.
Winnipeg, MB
Siloam Mission's Kitchen is a program serving three daily meals providing dignified, nutritious, and flavourful meals that are often the only stable food source for community members.
Steinbach Community Outreach
Steinbach, MB
Grocery Hampers are provided weekly to individuals and families in need, including a casserole, soup, bread, and available produce or dairy products.
Wood Buffalo Wellness Society
Fort McMurray, AB
The Tawâw Community Food Security Program is an Indigenous-led food hamper initiative supporting people who are sleeping rough or precariously housed through culturally relevant food delivery and trusted outreach that connects individuals to wraparound support.
Yellowknife Women's Society
Yellowknife, NT
Roots of Resilience is a community garden program led by Indigenous Elders with weekly sessions including cultural teachings, growing fresh produce, sustainable gardening methods, and preparation of healthy meals.
YWCA NWT
Yellowknife, NT
The Community Food Centre Program is a culturally appropriate, nutritious food program providing fresh groceries including meat, eggs, and protein as well as grocery gift cards.
Education & Job Training
Central Okanagan Food Bank
Kelowna, BC
The More Than Food program offers cooking, nutrition, and food safety training for low-income youth, helping them gain FoodSafe and First-Aid certifications as well as culinary experience.
East York Learning Experience
Toronto, ON
The Digital Literacy Learning Experience (DLLE) offers courses for low-income adults and seniors to build essential online skills.
Fort Nelson Community Literacy Society
Fort Nelson, BC
Literacy for Job Readiness offers support for job readiness including reading, writing, and digital skills with one-on-one mentoring to help upgrade resumes, search for jobs, and practice interviews.
PALS - Project Adult Literacy Society
Edmonton, AB
Pre-Apprenticeship Readiness is a math literacy program equipping adults with the literacy, numeracy, science and communication skills needed to succeed on Alberta's trade entrance exams.
Productions Jeun'Est
Montréal, QC
The Annual Arts and Culture Technical Production Training Program is an immersive experience for young adults who dropped out of school or are unemployed, teaching the four trades of a stage technician: sound, lighting, rigging, and video.
Restoration and Empowerment for Social Transition Centres
Brampton, ON
LIFEE (Learning Initiatives Fostering Economic Empowerment) Base Camp provides culturally responsive entrepreneurship and financial skills training for Black and racialized youth facing housing instability or economic hardship.
SEED Winnipeg Inc.
Winnipeg, MB
Building Newcomer Capacity for Employment and Entrepreneurship offers group courses and one-on-one employment and business coaching.
Spinal Cord Injury Ontario
Toronto, ON
The Next Step Digital Skills and Employment Bootcamp is a 12-week program for adults with spinal cord injuries with a curriculum including web design, digital marketing, accessible content creation, and employment coaching with connections to inclusive employers.
Environmental Sustainability
Bedeque Bay Environmental Management Association
Kinkora, PEI
The Building Natures Bridges program connects school-aged children and seniors with nature-based activities to support local ecosystems and reduce isolation for seniors.
Carolinian Canada
London, ON
The Native Seed and Plant Partnership supports environmental restoration, community wellbeing, and food security by increasing the quantity and diversity of native seeds.
Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba Inc.
Winnipeg, MB
The Greening Program enables refugee and newcomer families living at IRCOM to grow nutritious and culturally relevant food for their families while saving an average of $85 per month on groceries.
Mind Your Plastic
Halifax, NS
The Circular Economy Ambassador Program provides hands-on learning for students to address the harmful impacts of plastic pollution and empower them to create circular economy based solutions in their community.
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