Organismes sans but lucratif à Halifax
Découvrez les organismes sans but lucratif locaux qui font une différence dans notre communauté.
Moving Minds is a local non-profit organization dedicated to helping young people live well. It is the organizer of the annual Mind Ball in Halifax.
Prescott Group is a non-profit community based social enterprise that offers vocational opportunities, programs and services and community employment support to adults with intellectual disabilities in the Halifax area. Prescott Group's social enterprise is made up of Atlantic Bag Manufacturers, Fireside Kitchen and Prescott Mailing Services. Prescott Group also provides coaching and support to clients who work at local businesses and organizations. Our goal is to enhance the independence of persons with intellectual disabilities through personal development, social enterprise and employment opportunities.
A Community Development Initiative looking to empower residents of Mulgrave Park, in the North End of Halifax, by creating sustainable projects with entrepreneurial action.
Bryony House is a 24 bed shelter that provides a safe housing and support services for women with, or without children who have been impacted by intimate partner abuse. Each year, approximately 470 women and children stay with us and 2,500 distress calls are answered. Our dedicated counsellors are there to answer the 24-hour distress line, provide individual/group supportive counselling, public education, advocacy and referrals. An important part of our work is to break the cycle of abuse. Women who contact us come from many walks of life, socio-economic classes and cultural backgrounds. What they have in common is that they are in, or are fleeing, an abusive intimate relationship.
It’s a home for the homeless in Halifax. It’s hope for the hopeless. It’s food for the stomach and food for the soul. It’s friendship for the lonely. It’s Souls Harbour RESCUE Mission.
Souls Harbour RESCUES people from poverty, addiction and despair, by offering emergency help, such as food and clothing, life-changing programs, and the Gospel Message.
If you haven’t a friend in the world, you can find one here, where we strive to offer welcome, hope, and dignity to each of our guests.
“Because You stand up for the poor and weak, You comfort and empower them in their distress, Giving them safe harbour and cool shade when it’s hot; You shelter them from their oppressors’ blows as a strong wall holds back the driving rain.” – Isaiah 25:4
Veith House is a multi-service non-profit located in Halifax's north end. Our mission is to meet the needs of children, families, and individuals living with the effects of poverty, with empowerment as an ever present goal. We to this through programs such as Summer Day Camp, Preschool, counseling and trustee services, and more.
Atlantic Theravada Buddhist Cultural and Meditation Society, established in January 2015, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, thrives to institute Theravada Buddhism among a wider global community, by promoting traditional Buddhist culture and emotional and spiritual growth, while disseminating the teachings of the Buddha to all irrespective of nationality and age.
Lion's Roar Foundation aims to provide the broadest-possible access to genuine Buddhist teachings, news from the Buddhist world, personal accounts of life on the Buddhist path, and Buddhist perspectives on the conversations shaping our modern world.
The Salvation Army (Fairview Citadel) is launching its annual Christmas Kettle Campaign from Nov 22-Dec 24, and is seeking volunteers to stand alongside our kettles at various locations in Bayers Lake, Fairview and Clayton Park. Volunteer shifts are only 2 hours.
The Salvation Army recognizes that poverty is a critical issue, and that everyone has a right to access basic necessities such as nutritious food, health care, education and economic opportunity.
100% of the funds raised from this campaign stay in the community and are used to support local Salvation Army Programs for people in need including family services, food baskets, emergency shelter and addictions counseling.
For more information or to volunteer, please contact Kettle Coordinator Devin Casario at 902.809.2769 or kettlecoordinator2014@gmail.com.
Thank you for helping us meet the needs of the local community!
The Salvation Army (Fairview Citadel)
A community organization dedicated to sponsoring and settling refugees in Halifax.
The Chronicle Herald Holiday Parade of Lights presented by Eastlink is taking place on Saturday, November 19th, 2016 at 6:00pm in downtown Halifax! This year's parade will be led by the second annual Red Nose Run in support of the QEII Foundation, a fun run that follows the same route as the parade and begins at 5:45pm. We will need volunteers on the route for the run as well.
For 20 years we have relied on the help of our volunteers to help make the Holiday Parade of Lights a success. Please join us again on November 19th to help kick off the holiday season!
We are looking for volunteers in the following positions:
- Marshalling Area Line-up Coordinators
- Run Start Line
- Run Finish Line/Parade End of Route
- Parade/Run Route Team Members
Volunteer Requirements:
- All volunteers must be 16 years of age or older by November 19, 2016
- All volunteer correspondence will be done via email, please check your email often!
- Volunteers must give 24 hours notice of shift cancellation except in cases of emergency.
- If you would like to be stationed at a specific location along the parade route, please mention this in the Notes section of the application
To sign up, or for more information e-mail parade@herald.ca
The Halifax Tool Library is a volunteer run, non-profit organization that loans tools to the community as a proud member of the sharing economy in Halifax. Our key mission is to get underused tools into the hands of people who need them. In order to make this happen we need energetic, engaged volunteers to do a variety of tasks from membership (customer) service to administration to library organization to tool maintenance and repair. We love what we do and the current corps of volunteers and our membership are DIY and sharing economy enthusiasts. The executive are constantly striving to make the volunteer experience at the HTL a fun and valuable way to share time and be social while doing an amazing thing for our community.
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