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Lilah is really amazing. She is warm and bubbly, bright and curious, with a little stubbornness mixed in the pot. While this may sound like many 4 and 5 year old children, Lilah's life didn't have such an easy start with life which makes us even more proud of how she has blossomed.
Lilah is a survivor of neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer that attacks the central nervous system. Lilah's tumor, which was the size of a golf ball in an 8 lb baby, was found on her first day of life due to a not-so-routine ultrasound. The ultrasound had been scheduled right away in order to have a look at her solitary kidney, which we had learned about prenatally. As a result, we were sent to SickKids almost immediately for diagnosis and treatment.
It is Lilah's Fund's mission to end Children's Cancer NOW!
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Lilah's Fund
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New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity, an independent affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization. NOAHH builds new houses in partnership with sponsors, volunteers, and homeowner families to eliminate poverty housing in the New Orleans area while serving as a catalyst to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
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New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity
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Established in 1984, The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada is a national non-profit organization dedicated to fulfilling a favorite wish for children diagnosed with life-threatening illnesses. Since its inception, Children's Wish has granted more than 15,000 wishes for children and their families and fulfills approximately 950 wishes annually -- each being an individual adventure, carefully structured to meet the needs of that particular child. For information on The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada, log onto www.childrenswish.ca.
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The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada
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Compassion2One is actively involved in rescuing children from sex slavery and trafficking. Rescued children are placed in safe homes where they are loved and adored by a staff that fosters their physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. Each child is provided medical care, clean water and food, and a secure family environment that cultivates healthy growth and development. Children in C2One safe homes are equipped with education and job training that positions them to live healthy, productive, joyful lives.
We're rescuing children from sex slavery and giving them the lives of hope and joy they deserve. Join us in this fight for justice right where you are with the time, talent, and treasure you have. Check out our website (www.compassion2one.org) or contact us directly at Nikki@compassion2one.org to find out the dozens of ways you can help C2One end child sex trafficking.
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Compassion2One
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Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) of Canada is a national children’s charity dedicated to helping kids and supporting families across Canada. RMHC knows that when a child faces serious illness or disability they face it better as a family, and is dedicated to helping kids and supporting families when they need us most. RMHC achieves this by supporting each Canadian Ronald McDonald House, the Ronald McDonald Family Room Program and many other children’s charities across Canada.
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Ronald McDonald House Charities of Canada
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Every day, 3 Canadians are diagnosed with multiple sclerosis – children as young as 2 and women three times more often than men.
The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada is the only national voluntary organization in Canada that supports both MS research and services for people with MS and their families. With your help, we can fulfill our mission of being a leader in finding a cure for multiple sclerosis and enabling people affected by MS to enhance their quality of life.
It’s time. End MS.
www.endms.ca
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MS Society of Canada
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Sustainable Laos Education Initiatives Inc. is a Canadian registered non-profit organization that fundraises and runs environmental education projects in remote rural areas in Lao PDR. We accept poor, eager youth, who want to develop themselves and their communities in socially and environmentally sustainable ways, to come and board with us for 1-year, learning programs. We also have short, intensive workshops on issues relative to the community.
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Sustainable Laos Education Initiatives Inc.
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Eating Disorders of York Region (EDOYR) is a registered not-for-profit charitable organization founded in 2004 by a group of parents whose lives were touched by Eating Disorders and who were concerned with the lack of attention this illness receives. We rely on the support of our community to enable us to continue offering free support and guidance to all those who are affected by eating disorders.
Our Vision: To offer hope and support in a non-judgmental and confidential way to people affected by eating disorders as well as their family and friends. Our Mission: To give support to all those who are affected by eating disorders; To give hope for recovery;
To enlighten the community’s awareness and understanding of eating disorders; To provide education for early detection and prevention of eating disorders. Eating Disorders are complex conditions that are unhealthy coping strategies adopted to help individuals deal with underlying stresses that are too difficult or painful to approach head on. Eating Disorders are often about control and can signal an individual’s difficulty with identity, self-concept and self-esteem. The illness crosses all social and cultural boundaries and affects men and women of different racial, cultural and economic backgrounds. Eating Disorders are devastating, life-threatening illnesses that have severe physical and psychological ramifications for individuals and their families. Please visit our web site for further information or call (905) 886-6632.
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Eating Disorders of York Region (EDOYR)
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Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation evolved from a young cancer patient's front yard lemonade stand to a nationwide fundraising movement to find a cure for childhood cancer. Since Alexandra "Alex" Scott (1996-2004) set up her front-yard stand at the age of four, more than $25 million has been raised towards fulfilling her dream of finding a cure for all children with cancer.
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Alex's Lemonade Stand
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The Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CCFF) is a Canada-wide health charity with more than 50 volunteer chapters. The CCFF’s primary objective is to fund cystic fibrosis research and care. The Foundation is one of the world’s largest non-governmental granting agencies in the field of cystic fibrosis research.
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Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
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For 40 years, the Community Association for Riding for the Disabled (CARD) has been active in the GTA, improving the lives of children and adults with disabilities through quality therapeutic horseback riding programs. CARD's therapeutic riding program helps children and adults with cognitive, physical and emotional disabilities gain greater mobility, motor control, strength and balance, communication and social skills. CARD's focus is on helping each rider know his or her abiliity and to experience the confidence and self-esteem of participation, inclusion and success. Every year, using the horse as therapy, CARD improves the quality of life of more than 750 children and adults with disabilities across the GTA. CARD's therapeutic riding program helps each rider discover his or her own unique abilities, and the joy of passion, accomplishment and success. Help CARD change lives! For more information or to donate, please visit www.card.ca
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Community Association for Riding for the Disabled
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) is a progressive neuromuscular disease in which the body's muscles are paralyzed until its victims are unable to swallow and breathe. ALS can strike anyone, male or female, of any ethnic origin and of any age.
There is no known treatment or cure for ALS. If you get ALS, you will die, most likely within two to five years. Every day two or three Canadians die of the disease. ALS is the most common cause of
neurological death in Canada. According to the World Health Organization, neurodegenerative diseases are predicted to surpass cancer as the second leading cause of death in Canada by 2040. Please help stop this horrific disease and support our mission to find a cure for ALS. For more information visit: http://www.ALS.ca
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The ALS Society Of Canada
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Since 1989, Children's Craniofacial Association (CCA) addresses the medical, financial, emotional, educational and psychosocial issues related to craniofacial conditions.
Our mission is to empower and give hope to individuals and families affected by facial differences. We envision a world where all people are accepted for who they are, not how they look.
September is Craniofacial Acceptance Month across the nation! We are spreading awareness that 'Beyond the Face is a Heart' which fosters our goal of 'Widening the Circle of Acceptance'.
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Children's Craniofacial Association (CCA)
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Plug In America is a coalition of RAV4-EV drivers, former lessees of Honda EV+, GM EV1, Ford Ranger and Ford Th!nk City electric cars, and advocates of clean air and energy independence. Prior to 2008, we functioned as a loose network of individuals organized around websites of various names (like dontcrush.com and saveEV1.com) and then coalesced as a chapter of the Electric Auto Association. On January 2, 2008 Plug In America became a separate California Non-Profit Corporation. On August 18, 2008, we received our determination from the IRS, and we became an official 501(c)(3) public charity!
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Plug In America
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The Malibu Foundation for Environmental Education is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to a sustainable and healthy planet for all life by educating and motivating people into action. Eight-year old Allen Martinez, who had never been to the beach before, was quoted by The Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, October 5, 1993, as saying, "Cleaning the beach with my classmates made me feel hopeful." Gazing at the horizon, a plastic litter bag dangling at his side, he remarked on how blue the water looked. "The whole place looks so beautiful," he said. "I think I can save the Earth." Since 1991, The Malibu Foundation's Adopt-A-Beach School Assembly Program has reached almost 600,000 California school children. Nearly 90,000 have participated in our annual KIDS OCEAN DAY Adopt-A-Beach Clean-Up each June in celebration of Ocean Day.
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The Malibu Foundation
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There are over 1 million Canadians living today with developmental disabilities, including Autism, Aspergers Disease and Down Syndrome. There is no cure for a developmental disability – there is only hope – hope provided through organizations like Reena.
Since 1973, Reena has been caring for people with developmental disabilities. Today, Reena is a leader and pioneer in the provision of comprehensive portfolio of services to people with developmental disabilities in Ontario.
Reena provides housing and supervisory services to individuals where ongoing care is no longer within the capability of the family. Currently over 300 people live in Reena homes. People of all ages are cared for in Reena homes. Whether the individual is a child with autism or an aging adult, individuals live in age and need appropriate settings.
Reena is the acknowledged leader in training and educating professionals providing front line care to individuals with developmental disabilities. In fact George Brown College has partnered with Reena to offer a certified program for individuals.
Reena also provides vital Respite and Enrichment Programs to families who continue to care for their loved one at home. These families require assistance in meeting the enormous demands that come with caring for an individual with a developmental disability. The responsibility is a 24-hour a day, 7 days a week task, even while meeting the needs of the remainder of the family. Most of our families refer to these programs as “life-lines” because oftentimes they are the only source of respite keeping the family out of crisis. Government funding only goes so far. The majority of the funding for these vital programs come from community support.
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Reena Foundation
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In the last 16 years, over 50,000 sick, injured and orphaned wild animals have received medical attention at Toronto Wildlife Centre (TWC). As the first wildlife centre in Canada with a wildlife veterinarian on staff, TWC has become an authority on medical care and rehabilitation of wildlife.
TWC’s Wildlife Hotline (which receives approximately 30,000 calls each year) helps people and organisations with every kind of wildlife situation imaginable. This service is the busiest of its kind in North America, and is internationally recognized.
TWC is a registered charity and supported entirely by donations. The goal is simple: release as many animals as possible back to the wild where they belong, healthy and free.
www.torontowildlifecentre.com
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Toronto Wildlife Centre
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Best Friends Animal Society is working with animal lovers, shelters and rescue groups nationwide to bring about a time when there will be no more homeless pets. Best Friends operates the largest sanctuary in the nation for homeless animals; provides adoption, spay/neuter, and educational programs; and publishes Best Friends, the largest general-interest animal magazine in the nation. Kindness to animals builds a better world for all of us.
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Best Friends Animal Society
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We are a team of committed individuals, from all walks of life, determined to help children who have educational needs. Currently we are working in a community in Niger, West Africa. We focus on one community at a time, one book at a time and one pencil at a time.
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Pencils For Kids
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We recognize that there is a growing need in our communities to make physical activity a priority in the lives of Canadian children. Research has proven that participation in sports and recreation increases a child’s chance of success in life through:
o A healthier lifestyle
o Increased self-esteem and confidence
o The opportunity to learn important leadership skills
o Improved school performance and future education expectations
o More positive relationships and strengthened support networks
Additionally, research has indicated that 1 in 3 Canadian families cannot afford to place their children in sport and recreation activities because of financial barriers (Ipsos Reid, 2005).
We at Canadian Tire have seen the need and have taken up the challenge to help provide Canadian children in financial need with the opportunity to participate in sport and recreation through Canadian Tire Jumpstart so they can develop essential life skills, self-esteem and confidence.
Launched in 2005 by Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities (formerly the Canadian Tire Foundation for Families), Canadian Tire Jumpstart is a charitable program to help kids in financial need participate in organized sports and recreation such as hockey, dance, soccer and swimming. The program covers costs such as registration fees, transportation and equipment.
National in scope but local in its focus, Canadian Tire Jumpstart delivers support through a Canadian-wide network of local chapters. There are currently 279 Jumpstart Chapters in communities across Canada.
Canadian Tire Jumpstart helps more than 50,000 children annually get in the game. For more information, or to donate, please visit: www.canadiantire.ca/jumpstart
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Canadian Tire Jumpstart®
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The Scouts Canada Foundation helps raise funds for over 4,500 Scout groups across Canada. In 2008 the Scouts Canada Foundation launched No One Left Behind -a grant program to provide financial assistance to help children so they can join and participate in Scouting -regardless of their family’s financial situation. All members of Scouting participate in local fundraising but sometimes money needed for camps etc is not fully raised and the child’s parents will “top-up” any shortfall. Some parents, facing financial difficulties, cannot top-up fundraising and these kids are eligible for No One Left Behind support. To learn more about Scouting in Canada and the No One Left Behind Program please visit www.scouts.ca.
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The Scouts Canada Foundation
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The S.A.F.E Foundation is a Wales based NGO committed to poverty reduction in small, marginalized communities in the developing world. Despite mainstream aid being warmly received in many poor countries, there remains a huge number of people that can't access this assistance, either becuase they are so remote, their communities are so small, or the only aid they see is conditional. The S.A.F.E Foundation responds to these needs by implementing programmes covering health, education, livelihood, equality and empowerment in a culturally sensitive, grass roots and unconditional way. We work with people who are incredibly poor, homeless, disabled and desperate to gain some quality of life. Back home, we take development education into our communities, and work to dispel stigmas about poverty, ethnicity, tradition and culture with a view to promoting international understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence.
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The SAFE Foundation
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Junior Achievement of Central Ontario has provided hands-on experiences which help young people understand the economics of life since 1968. In partnership with educators and volunteers, Junior Achievement brings the real world to students, opening their minds to their potential, serving nearly 70,000 students in Central Ontario in 2008-2009 alone.
Through the generous support of our volunteers and donors Junior Achievement provides relevant financial literacy and entrepreneurial programs. Every program is delivered by trained and inspiring volunteers who share their practical experience to encourage students to stay in school and to pursue their dreams.
We are actively seeking more volunteers and donors to help us meet the tremendous demand for our programs. We invite you to join us to inspire students today and help ensure their success in the future!
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Junior Achievement of Central Ontario
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Today, Special Olympics stands as a leader in the field of intellectual disability and has sharpened the focus on its mission as not just "nice," but critical, not just as a sports organization for people with intellectual disabilities, but also as an effective catalyst for social change. Children and adults with intellectual disabilities, who participate in Special Olympics exhibit boundless courage and enthusiasm, enjoy the rewards of friendship and ultimately discover not only new abilities and talents but "their voices" as well.
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Ontario Special Olympics
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