Organismes sans but lucratif à Halifax

The Dartmouth Makers are a non-profit, volunteer driven society of artists and craftspeople with an aim to foster a vibrant Dartmouth arts community. Their vision is to create affordable craft shows where artists, crafters and makers alike can market and sell their work.

The Empathy Factory was founded in 2010.

Our mission is to instil a sense of empathy and a philanthropic spirit in Canada's youth. We want to inspire, empower and challenge youth to tap into their empathy and create social change through age appropriate Empathy Factory programs.

<strong>Our Programs</strong>

<strong>Project: Empathy</strong> - We visit schools and deliver workshops on the value of volunteering, philanthropy, and related topics to children aged 8-15. We then challenge them to submit ideas that will better their communities in the categories of health, environment, social justice and/or education. The top one or two ideas at each school receive the full support and mentorship of the Empathy Factory staff and volunteers throughout the execution of the idea. Upon completion of the projects, we ensure that each student submits a reflection of their learning outcomes, successes, and failures.

<strong>Accelerating: Empathy</strong> - The two-day annual conference event brings together aspiring social innovators from high schools across the province to take part in an experiential educational environment that seeks to inspire, challenge, and empower participants. Participants are asked to devise a solution to a timely social issue, collaborate with fellow students, mentors and industry experts to refine their idea, and pitch their polished proposal to a panel of high-profile judges.

The Friends of Gilda’s Nova Scotia is committed to developing a place to provide free, professional programs, ensuring that all people affected by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action and sustained by community. We are a volunteer run organization based out of Halifax working to build Atlantic Canada's first chapter of The Cancer Support Community affiliated Gilda's Club.

Gilda’s Club is a non-clinical, psychosocial and emotional support program named for comedian Gilda Radner. Gilda Radner, most famous for her work as an original cast member of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1986. In her book It’s Always Something, Gilda describes her experience with cancer, and how important finding a community to learn from and share the cancer journey with was to her.

In her memory, Gilda’s Club Worldwide was established in New York City, which has helped communities all across North America benefit from psychosocial and emotional support. In 2009 Gilda’s Club Worldwide partnered with The Wellness Community, which combined the knowledge, resources, and expertise of two organizations dedicated to psychosocial oncology into one: The Cancer Support Community.

The Cancer Support Community has since grown into an international leader in psychosocial service delivery and research with 59 Clubhouses and Communities established across the United States, Canada, Japan, and Israel, with partners in the Philippines, the UK, and India, as well as the Cancer Support Community’s Research and Training Institute in Philadelphia.

The Halifax Helpers is an official chapter of YouthInspirEd Foundation. We were established to ensure that all students receive the academic support they require to become fearless learners. We provide free online tutoring and language sessions for elementary, junior high school, and high school students as well as their caregivers.

The Halifax Humanities Society is a non-profit organization committed to offering free, non-credit, university-level humanities education to adults facing barriers to traditional education in the Halifax Regional Municipality. Over 200 students from a range of ages and backgrounds have found these classes transformative. To learn more about the Halifax Humanities Society, visit our website: www.halifaxhumanitiessociety.ca

The Mobile Food Market brings healthy, affordable, high quality foods to Halifax neighbourhoods with limited access.

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.

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada (LLSC) is a national non-profit organization dedicated to curing blood cancers and improving the quality of life for patients and their families. Through Canadian-led research, education, advocacy, and free support services, LLSC helps people navigate every step of their blood cancer experience while driving progress in treatments and care.

Light The Night is LLSC’s signature fundraising event, bringing communities together each fall in cities across Canada. Participants carry illuminated lanterns—red for supporters, white for survivors, and gold in memory of loved ones—as they walk in solidarity to honour, celebrate, and remember those impacted by blood cancers.

Funds raised through Light The Night fuel groundbreaking research and vital support programs. The event not only shines a light on the progress made over the past two decades, but also inspires hope and connection, reminding everyone that no one walks alone in the blood cancer community.

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Atlantic Canada is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of individuals affected by blood cancers in the Atlantic Canada region.

Committed to their mission of curing leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and myeloma while also providing support to patients and their families, the organization conducts research, raises awareness, and offers various services. They collaborate with healthcare professionals, researchers, volunteers, and donors to fund innovative research, advocate for better treatments and access to care, and provide educational resources and support programs for patients navigating their cancer journey. Through fundraising events, community outreach, and support initiatives, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Atlantic Canada strives to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those impacted by blood cancers in the region.

<strong>The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada (LLSC) is the largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding research, finding cures and ensuring access to treatments for blood cancer patients.</strong>

Since 1955, LLSC has been on the forefront of blood cancer advances such as chemotherapies and stem cell transplantation leading the way to the targeted therapies and immunotherapies that are saving thousands of lives today.

LLSC is changing the landscape of cancer with more than 28 active research projects that explore different avenues of new and adventurous research; ones with promise and ones that will save lives not someday, but today.

Whenever we talk about cancer, we always use the same word. Someday. Someday there will be a cure. Someday we won’t lose the people we love. But when is someday? With LLSC’s research partnerships and patients support services and advocates working for blood cancer patients everywhere, <strong>someday is today.</strong>

The Loaded Ladle is an open cooperative of students and community members fighting unjust global food systems and cooking, serving, and eating meals together. The Loaded Ladle also offers educational workshops on topics such as seed saving, racism in food movements and tincture making, along with a monthly book club and various other opportunities to get involved.

The Lung Association of Nova Scotia is a charitable health organization dedicated to improving quality of life by preventing and managing lung disease through research, advocacy, patient services and education.

From our main office in Halifax, we serve all Nova Scotians with lung disease through help from generous donors like you. Our focus is simple: offer the best programs and services in lung health possible, advocate for better lung health research and put the money we receive in areas that directly help Nova Scotians breathe easier.