Organismes sans but lucratif à Halifax
Découvrez les organismes sans but lucratif locaux qui font une différence dans notre communauté.
As Canada’s leading child and youth mentoring charity, Big Brothers Big Sisters facilitates life-changing relationships that inspire and empower children and youth to reach their potential, both as individuals and citizens.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Halifax has been creating friendships since 1967. We started out matching Big Brothers with Little Brothers and have grown to include a variety of different programs that serve both boys and girls. We are proud of our achievements and continue to strive to be on the leading edge of the Big Brothers Big Sisters movement in Canada.
Parker Street Food Bank provides help to people in need. We are a food and furniture bank, but strongly believe in the adage, "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime". Some of the opportunities for self-sufficiency have included courses in flooring installation, windows and doors installation, automotive parts clerk, siding, carpenter's assistant training and basic computer skills. We also provide back packs filled with school supplies for young students in September and at Christmas time we provide the ingredients for a traditional turkey dinner as well as toys for the wee ones. We also operate an Emergency Fund to help those in financial crisis, such as helping with utility or heating bills.
Coverdale Courtwork Society
Coverdale Coutwork Society is an organization that provides supports and services for women involved in or at risk of becoming involved in, the criminal justice system. We provide year-round programming in education, awareness and prevention that actively promotes healthy lifestyles. Perhaps most importantly we provide a safe and supportive space in which women from throughout the HRM can grow to become strong, empowered, and productive women.
Kids Help Phone is a Canadian service and world leader known for our expertise and continuous innovation as Canada’s only 24/7 counselling and information service for young people. Since 1989, our trained, professional counsellors have been listening to kids, often when no one else can or will. We are always there – supporting young people wherever and whenever they need us most.
Our free and anonymous service supports young people as they build the skills and abilities they’ll need to improve their emotional health and well-being. In addition to an array of counselling options, we offer young people a wide range of online resources and we work tirelessly to share young people’s perspectives on a societal level – locally, nationally, and globally.
We could not do this important, life-changing work without the generous support of our donors and sponsors. Kids Help Phone raises the majority of our revenue from foundational, corporate, and individual donations. Thanks to our generous donors we can always be there, proudly supporting the 6.5 million young people in Canada between the ages of five and 20 in both English and French.
The Loaded Ladle provides accessible, sustainable, locally-sourced free food on Dalhousie Campus. Our non-hierarchical co-operative offers an alternative food service, that opposes capitalist food systems. We also offer events and workshops that critically examine barriers to food sovereignty, food security and food justice.
Phoenix has been helping youth, families and the community thrive since 1987. We provide care and opportunities for individuals, and create conditions where they can thrive and bring those qualities to their full potential. We are dedicated to meeting the diverse needs of youth in a respectful, dignified, and innovative manner, while also being a voce of social justice in their lives. Our programs can now be captures in three important areas: Crises Management (emergency shelter, health services, counselling, drop-in centre), Community based Prevention (clinical therapy, outreach and community development) and Housing and Employment Skills (employment and education, parent support, trustee program, recreation and arts, independent and semi-independent housing).
Out of the Cold is a community-based, volunteer-run organization that works to provide shelter & community supports to the homeless & precariously housed. The specific work for the 2015-2016 season is being planned currently, and this website is under construction.
Red Bear Healing Home is a non-profit society registered with the Province of Nova Scotia (June 23, 2011). Red Bear Healing Home is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors and managed by an Executive Director.
Mission
Building Respect for all Life through Sustainable Living
Principles
Red Bear Healing Home upholds the following principles:
- The Seven Sacred Teachings / Laws of Love ♦ Respect ♦ Wisdom ♦ Honesty ♦ Courage ♦ Humility ♦ Truth. Interpretations are available on-line by searching for The Seven Sacred Teachings. It is also now available on itunes.
- The Teachings of the Four Directions - see Rupert Ross, Returning to the Teachings
- The Teachings of the Sacred Tree
- Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth
The Canadian Mental Health Association, Halifax-Dartmouth Branch works at the community level and facilitates access to the resources people require to maintain and improve mental health, community integration and resilience. CMHA Halifax-Dartmouth supports the recovery of people living with mental illness through our social support programs and initiatives.
Make-A-Wish Atlantic Provinces grants wishes to Atlantic Canadian children between the ages of 3 to 17 who are living with a life-threatening medical condition to enrich their lives with hope, strength and joy.
If you or someone in your family was recovering from an illness, struggling with a disability or dementia, dealing with a chronic or terminal illness, where would you turn? For more than 118 years, people have been turning to VON (Victorian Order of Nurses), Canada’s largest not-for-profit home and community care organization.
VON is known and trusted for in-home nursing care, and while that service is at the core of our organization, we also offer a vast range of personal support programs, community support and volunteer services, to help our clients manage in difficult times and to improve their quality of life.
Sunday Assembly is a godless congregation that gathers once a month to celebrate life. We are currently meeting on the 4th Sunday of the month at the Halifax Central Public Library. Our motto is: Live Better, Help Often, Wonder More. The Assemblies consist of speakers from the community and singing popular songs together with coffee and cookies afterward.
Vous voulez être répertorié ?
Inscrivez votre organisme
Affichage de 373 à 384 sur 518 organisations
Page 32 sur 44
Êtes-vous une organisation à but non lucratif ?
Inscrivez-vous à notre répertoire pour rejoindre plus de bénévoles et partager votre mission avec la communauté. L'inscription est gratuite.