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The North Shore Stroke Recovery Centre (NSSRC) was initially founded in 1974 by a group of six stroke survivors wishing to meet and support one another post stroke. Since that time the NSSRC has become the main service provider of post hospital stroke recovery and community re-integration services for individuals and caregivers living with stroke. We offer a peer-and volunteer-supported group atmosphere with access to speech therapy, music therapy, exercise therapy and much more. The organization serves the communities of North and West Vancouver, with over two hundred local residents supported annually.

From modest beginnings almost 100 years ago, Wood’s Homes has grown into a multi-service agency helping Canada's most troubled young people. Programs are now located in Calgary, Strathmore, Lethbridge, Canmore, Ft. McMurray, and Ft. Smith. NWT. We are a nationally accredited, non-profit organization that serves 20,000 troubled young people & their families from across Canada every year. We operate over 30 programs & services including: 24/7 intensive residential treatment, in-home family support, crisis intervention, community outreach, foster care, addiction/substance abuse treatment, no-fee, walk-in counselling.

ADRA operates worldwide in approximately 134 countries. ADRA seeks to identify and address social injustice and deprivation in developing countries. ADRA invests in the potential of individuals through community development initiatives targeting Food Security, Economic Development, Primary Health and Basic Education. ADRA's emergency management initiatives provide aid to disaster survivors. ADRA recognizes the dignity that is inherent in each person and is committed to improving the quality of human life. It serves people without regard to their ethnic, political, or religious association. It helps those in need, especially those most vulnerable, such as women and children.

For over 35 years, Teen Challenge has been offering hope and a new start in life for young men, women and adults through our 12 month residential drug and alchol rehab centres across Canada. For more information, visit www.teenchallenge.ca and click on the location of your choice.

The BC SPCA is a provincial non-profit organization funded primarily by public donations. Our mission is to prevent cruelty and to promote the welfare of animals through a wide range of services, including cruelty investigations, emergency rescue and treatment, sheltering and adoption of homeless and abused animals, humane education, advocacy, farm animal welfare, spay/neuter programs, and wildlife rescue and rehabilitation. You may also donate directly to the BC SPCA through our website at www.spca.bc.ca

To provide Kenyan communities access to the education, skills and support they need to realize their full potential.

In the past year, The Food Bank of Waterloo Region, assisted approximately 28,000 neighbours in Waterloo Region. Yearly, The Food Bank distributes over 3 million pounds of food to community individuals who are facing challenging circumstances. Food is distributed through a partnership of 76 member agencies and community programs which provide emergency food hampers and meals. For a full description of our programs and food distribution, please see our website at www.thefoodbank.ca. If you would like a copy of our annual financial statement, please contact us at (519) 743-5576.

The Canadian Shaare Zedek Hospital Foundation is a Canadian not-for-profit that has been working, in partnership with similar offices around the world, for nearly 40 years, to raise funds in support of the Medical Center. For more than a century, Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, a 500-bed facility located in the center of the city, has been known as a "Hospital with a Heart." The Medical Center relies on the support of friends around the world to provide the resources for research, special projects and capital development. Each year, the Hospital identifies its fundraising priorities. It usually includes a menu of projects to improve or update current areas within the Hospital as well as more specific development projects to improve current Centers of Excellence.

Child & Women International Development (CHWID) is an International Humanitarian and Development Organization under Canadian law registered under the Charitable Registration Number 1176816941 whose headquarter are based in Bourlamaque, Quebec in Canada and in the State of Delaware/USA under number 10090150, which campaigns to improve living conditions, alleviating the suffering of vulnerable people and promoting the development of the most disadvantaged areas in favor of women and children. www.chwid.org Vision: Provide humanitarian assistance and carry out CHWID development and charity actions with vulnerable populations who are victims of multiple causes around the world. MISSIONS. The general mission is to improve the quality of life and the future of children, women and other vulnerable people. It also has for mission, in Canada, in France, in Africa, in Europe and in the rest of the world: - to provide assistance and humanitarian aid and to carry out CHWID and charitable actions with vulnerable populations due to political, ethnic, economic or social oppression, war, disaster, ecological threat or any other emergency or underdevelopment, in order to meet their basic needs. - to collect and disseminate to the public, the media and decision-makers, by various means of expression and initiatives, information on the situations encountered. - to promote the image and development of women and children, their involvement in civil and social life, mutual aid and solidarity, assistance and consolidation of the group spirit; - to promote the urban or local social development of women, girls and children of the world through education, training, culture, sport, supervision of young people, disabled and disadvantaged children, social integration, training, cultural mediation, medical and humanitarian aid; - promote sustainable development in the world by encouraging and financing micro-projects, the activities of women in the informal sector, the participation of women and young people in development, the environment, the fight against delinquency, exclusion, violence, illiteracy, AIDS, famine, STDs and other scourges; - promote the exchange of ideas and group dynamics, - rehabilitation and construction of road infrastructure and support to governments. - Promote apprenticeship of trades for a better future; - Promote the reintegration of unmarried mothers and other young people through psychosocial skills.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a fatal inherited disorder, affecting mainly the lungs and the digestive system. In the lungs, where the effects of the disease are most devastating, CF causes severe respiratory problems. In the digestive tract, CF often results in extreme difficulty in digesting and absorbing adequate nutrients from food.

Our two major programs provide hope for the future through the support of MS research into the cause, treatment and cure of the disease and hope for today through our many services that assist people with MS and their families. Since our founding in 1948, the core support of the MS Society has been from tens of thousands of dedicated individuals, companies and foundations in communities across Canada. The Society receives almost no funding from government.

The Alzheimer Society Of Saskatchewan is dedicated to helping those affected by Alzheimer's disease through awareness, advocacy, education and support services. Our programs include groups for individuals with early memory loss, information and support groups for caregivers, a lending library, information and referral services, Safely Home - the Alzheimer Wandering Registry and education services for families, professionals, children and the general public. We also support Alzheimer research through participation in the Alzheimer Society of Canada National Research Program and by supporting research initiatives in our home province of Saskatchewan. If you make an online donation in memory or in honour of someone, the Alzheimer Society Of Saskatchewan will notify the person or family that you have made this tribute to them or their loved one.