Other Nonprofit Organizations in Halifax

Halifax Crafters is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization with a mandate to encourage new artists and local art making.

Each year we organize two shows, one in the spring and one before the Christmas holidays. Our carefully curated and unique market is a place where established and emerging Crafters show their work side by side.

We strive to remain a financially accessible market for vendors while staying fresh, seeking out new talent and encouraging new craftspeople to enter the marketplace. We also strive to make the market accessible to the community by offering free admission.

<p>The Halifax Cycling Coalition is an organization of concerned citizens dedicated to improving cycling conditions and raising awareness of cycling issues in the Halifax Regional Municipality.</p>

<p>The HCC believes that increased bicycle use has the potential to</p>

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<li>Reduce traffic congestion</li>
<li>Reduce Halifax infrastructure spending</li>
<li>Improve our health</li>
<li>Enhance our urban environment</li>
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<p>We want to change the circumstances that discourage bicycle use: inadequate cycling facilities, and lack of education for both cyclists and motorists.</p>

ABOUT THE HALIFAX FRINGE FESTIVAL

The Halifax Fringe is an annual performing arts festival. Since 1990, we have presented an accessible, un-juried, and uncensored festival. The Fringe includes theatre, music, circus, dance, comedy, and more. The Halifax Fringe presents local, national, and international artists. This coming year, the Halifax Fringe will be presented from September 3rd to 13th, 2026.

MISSION

The Halifax Fringe Festival creates spaces for everyone to express themselves through performance.

VISION

The Halifax Fringe Festival is a home for anyone to tell their story. We empower artists and audiences. By prioritizing our core values of being un-juried, uncensored, and accessible, we aim to create a space that welcomes differences and celebrates expression.

VALUES

- Un-juried: Participants are selected by lottery.
- Prioritizing Artists: 100% of the base ticket price goes directly to the artists.
- Uncensored: Festival producers have no control over the artistic content of each performance. The artistic freedom of the participants is unrestrained.
- Accessibility: The Festival must provide an easily accessible opportunity for all audiences and artists to participate.
- Equity: The Fringe will promote and model inclusivity, diversity and multiculturalism, and will endeavour to incorporate them into all aspects of our organization.

Halifax Helps (www.halifaxhelps.ca) is a new online home for people who are making a difference, or who want to make a difference, in Halifax and beyond.

We help people make a meaningful difference by creating opportunities to do good, by providing practical information on how to do good, and by inspiring and supporting each other to do good.

We are a small non-profit Board that is the liaison for Government Funding and the Management company who produces the Busker Festival. We meet for an hour 3-4 times per year. We are looking to add diversity to the Board and are looking for individuals who may have a business or other connection to the Halifax downtown area and interested in joining the Board.

The Halifax Jazz Festival (HJF), formed as JazzEast Rising is a non-profit organization created in 1987 to present the first ever Halifax Jazz Festival (formerly known as the Atlantic Jazz Festival) in Nova Scotia, Canada. Over the past 29 years, HJF has widened its horizons beyond the successful TD Halifax Jazz Festival to become involved, throughout the year, in a diverse range of musical and educational activities.

HJF's mandate runs from the promotion and presentation of soft-seat concerts and club shows to planning educational workshops (such as the renowned Creative Music Workshop). We develop opportunities for amateur musicians, established local artists and the local "jazz aristocracy". We bring renowned performers from many parts of the world to a city that doesn't always find itself naturally on the maps for touring artists.

In brief, we think jazz is important to the culture which we'd like to have, and we want to make sure that kind of culture is strong in Halifax, where we love to live.

Oktoberfest is a cultural festival organized to unite the community in celebration of German heritage. Launched in 2009, the Halifax Oktoberfest attracts hundreds of locals and visitors alike to the Halifax Waterfront to enjoy authentic Bavarian cuisine, beverages, and music along with raising money for Charity!

This year, be sure to come on down to the Salter Lot for a day of giant pretzels, cold craft beer, dancing and games! There's the traditional tapping of the cask to kick off the festival, keg bowling, and live music by the Swell Guys and Die Brewmisters.

Proceeds from this event go to charity. Prosit!

Halifax Regional Police (HRP) is responsible for policing the urban core of the Halifax region as well as the area commonly referred to as the Sambro Loop and the Purcells Cove - Herring Cove Loop.

HRP is committed to providing volunteers with positions that are both challenging and rewarding. We have a deep appreciation for the contribution our volunteers make and will make every attempt to ensure that your volunteer experience is a positive one.

A volunteer position with HRP will provide you with an opportunity to significantly contribute to HRP’s Mission of "working together to keep our communities safe."

The Halifax Summer Opera Festival and Workshop educates and develops both singers and audiences through the performance of operatic repertoire. Our goals are to present three fully staged operas each summer in Halifax that challenge and enrich both artists and audience, and that are artistically and financially accessible to both. Our aesthetic is artist-centred, creative, professional, relatively low-budget, alternative, modern and respectful of our source material. Our clients are singers (from community members to university undergrads to professionals), creative and technical workers and audience members, who may be experienced opera or theatre goers, or newcomers to the art form

The Halifax Tea Festival brings together like-minded people to raise awareness around locally owned and operated teashops, c<span class="text_exposed_show">afes, local food establishments, organic agriculture, artisans, etc. </span>

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This festival supports the Buy Local movement by providing an accessible way to introduce products and services to the community in a unique and fun manner.
Last year for our First Annual event we welcomed hundreds of tea enthusiasts from HRM and beyond. The Festival taps into the history and the culture of tea.
It’s an opportunity to connect deeper with each other and our health. </span>

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The event is family friendly, safe, interactive, and full of learning opportunities.The Halifax Tea Festival donates a portion of admission fees to a non-profit every year.</span>

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Please visit the gallery on our website to see an incredible collection of photos from last years amazing event!</span>

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The Rotary Club of Halifax Harbour is hosting its ninth annual Harbourside Ribfest at Alderney Landing. Harbourside RibFest is proudly 100% run by volunteers and serves as a vital community fundraiser. We rely on the dedication and enthusiasm of individuals and groups like you to bring our festival to life. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to great causes while being part of an exciting community event.

This year's festivity will feature a diverse selection of five rib trucks alongside vibrant local vendors, set to attract thousands of attendees. Our event not only offers a delightful culinary experience but also serves a greater purpose, with all proceeds being channeled into supporting numerous local and international charities through the Rotary Club's efforts.