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Our Mission is to reunite lost or missing people with their families and assist in the location of deceased individuals. We believe search is an emergency, therefore RSAR provides competent, rapid response and deployment. Our nationally certified canines and handlers assist agencies responsible for searches of lost, missing, drowned and deceased persons. Our team is certified in chain of command (NIMS) and is adept at working with and within agency parameters.

TO ASSIST AFRICAN PEOPLE OVERCOME PERSONAL OBSTACLES TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN LIFE PHYSICALLY, SPIRITUALLY, AND FINANCIALLY

Established in 1979, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is the world's largest and longest-running queer theatre. We are proud to be Toronto’s leading destination for artistically-rigorous, alternative theatre and a world leader in developing queer voices and stories for the stage. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre has identified three core values that serve as guiding pillars for all our activities and operations. DIFFERENCE: With our art, we simultaneously celebrate difference and question the mechanisms through which differences are constructed and maintained. EXCELLENCE: We provide our audiences with unforgettable theatre experiences, and we give our artists and staff the resources they need to achieve the highest standards of excellence. COMMUNITY: We believe that the theatre plays a vital role in the educational, social, and economic health of a community.

The Cerebral Palsy Association in Alberta is a collaborative partner with community agencies/ organizations in advocating on behalf of individuals with cerebral palsy. We are a leader in delivering programs and services, educating and providing information on treatment and resources relating to cerebral palsy in the province of Alberta.

Guelph-Wellington Women in Crisis provides support to women who are experiencing physical, emotional, sexual and/or financial abuse. All our services are free of charge. Our services include: -Marianne's Place (a 28-bed shelter for abused women and their children); -The Transitional and Housing Support Program (non-residential support for women who have experienced abuse); -The Sexual Assault Centre (support for women who have experienced sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse, or stalking, also support for friends/family of survivors); -The Rural Women's Support Program (support throughtout the county of Wellington); -24-hour Crisis Line (support and information, including access to all above mentioned progams at 519-836-5710 or 1-800- 265-SAFE). We offer one-to-one counselling, support groups, information and referrals, accompaniment to court/doctor etc., public education and professional trainings, safety planning, and resources.

UNA-Canada strives for a better world. We focus on the UN issues of peace and security, sustainable development, human rights, and global cooperation. We work directly with youth and educators, building the capacity of young Canadians able to effect positive global change. We foster Canadian support for the UN and the values that drive it - freedom, equity, tolerance, non-violence, respect for nature and shared responsibility. We also help define foreign policy priorities for the Canadian Government. OUR FUNDS: General - supports national projects; Membership - is both national and local; Projects - supports specific national projects/programmes; Reserve - invested, providing ongoing national support; Branch - supports local volunteer-driven initiatives.

Since 1989, the St. Albert Stop Abuse In Families (SAIF) Society has provided services to clients that are experiencing abuse and its devastating effects to the family unit. We also offer support groups, and provide educational prevention programs to schools and youth groups in our community.

Since 1984,WISH has been providing caring, non-judgmental frontline services to some of our community's most marginalized women through our drop-in centre, located in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. At WISH, sex-working women can find: - An overnight safe haven - Hot, nutritious meals and healthy snacks - Nursing care - Literacy and learning activities - Supported employment programming - Aboriginal cultural programming - Referrals to detox, housing and other supports All services are offered without judgment. Whether a sex-working woman wants support in lessening her reliance on sex work or whether she just needs a few hours of respite from the street, she will be welcome at WISH. "A safe place for me to be. My friends and co-workers I come to see. I am here to eat and be warm. It is my shelter from this downtown storm." - WISH participant WISH is a women-only, trans* inclusive space.

Since June 1984, Partners in Mission Food Bank has been relieving hunger by distributing over 223,798 food hampers to low income people in the Kingston area.

We are the registered food bank for Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows and are a member of the Canadian Association of Food Banks and Food Banks BC. WE DO NOT solicit and operate soley on the generous donations from our communities. Food hampers are provided to registered clients on a monthly basis. These hampers have 4-5 days of food as well as a produce and protein supplement each month. Our clients are also enabled to visit the food bank once a week to collect fresh fruit, vegetables and bread. We also provide "extras" which include soaps, cereal, juice, condiments, paper products etc. We have programs to support babies and a milk & egg program that supports families with children under twelve and seniors. Friends in Need Food Bank provides about 700 food hampers each month which equals about 12,000lbs of food. We are open Tuesday thru Friday for client services from 8:30am to 12:30pm most weeks throughout the year in Maple Ridge. In Pitt Meadows we are open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

For Youth Initiative (FYI) serves youth aged 13-29 in the priority neighbourhood of Weston – Mount Dennis and surrounding communities of West-end Toronto. FYI began as a project in the former City of York to respond to the crucial and pressing issues of youth disengagement, violence, crime, poverty and alienation among marginalized and underserved youth in the area. Today, FYI offers structured recreational, culture & media arts, and female-specific programming to develop transferable life skills and leadership opportunities to the youth we serve. FYI adheres closely to a by-youth for-youth model where young people are central players in the decision making process and hold leadership roles within the organization on the Board of Directors, as committee members, as volunteers and as staff. FYI aims to create healthy communities where youth are fully engaged and equal participants of society.

The ELF provides training, materials and small grants to community organizations and schools across Canada in order to assist them in the development of children's literacy initiatives. ELF-supported programs have served over 13 000 children, predominantly from First Nations, new Canadian and low-income communities. We believe that literacy is the birthright of all Canadians. ELF-supported communities often report illiteracy rates of over 90%! With our support, programs serving children and youth at risk, have dramatically increased literacy rates.