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IDEA‘s mission as an arts education and creative learning organization founded in 1996 is to connect underserved youth and their families to the life affirming quality of the arts. Our work is about building more socially resourceful and vibrant communities by strengthening human potential through creativity, culture and arts based learning

The Literacy Council of Durham Region is a charitable, non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to increasing literacy in the Durham Region. Guided by the principle of Each One, Teach One, volunteer tutors and staff members identify individual learner needs and design learning activities to help meet goals related to independence, employment or further education/training. The Literacy Council has been in operation since 1980 and provides an essential service within the region, with a recent International Adult Literacy Survey indicating that 1 out of 5 adults in the Durham Region need help with reading and writing. Since 2005 the Council has worked with over 420 learners and delivered 16,409 hours of direct literacy instruction. Without the generous support of funders and volunteers, the Council would not be able to help adult learners reach their goals and enrich their lives. Please consider making a donation today.

The Pride in Art Society produces the Queer Arts Festival (QAF), an annual three-week artist-run professional multi-disciplinary arts festival in Vancouver. QAF celebrates the unique creative expressions of visual and performing artists who identify as part of the queer or LGBTI communities. It includes a curated visual arts exhibition, a community visual art show, a series of performing arts events, and workshops for adults and youth. Since 2006, QAF has presented over 800 artists in nearly 150 events, and incited the creation of dozens of genre- and gender-bending new works. QAF's innovative, challenging, and thought-provoking programming has garnered wide acclaim as “an out-and-out cultural bonanza” (Vancouver Sun)," some of the most adventurous of any local arts festival" (Vancouver Province) and “on the forefront of aesthetic and cultural dialogue today” (Xtra). QAF believes passionately in the transformative power of the arts. Art changes people; people change the world.

ACT Alberta is a coalition comprised of government ministries, nongovernmental organizations, survivors of trafficking and volunteers concerned with identifying and responding to human trafficking in Alberta. ACT Alberta operates through community driven ACT Chapters, located in urban and rural areas of Alberta. These Chapters address all forms of trafficking including labour and sexual exploitation, domestic and international trafficking.