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The Beacon Learning Centre is non-profit educational facility providing a diverse range of age-appropriate early childhood programs designed to stimulate a love of learning and enhance childrens' learning skills. Our independent school with generous outdoor playspace is located on Ogilvie Road, north of Montreal Road, in the beautiful and quiet residential neighbourhood of Beacon Hill North. We boast excellent indoor and outdoor facilities offering supervised, safe and creative environments for play and learning and a variety of program options to accommodate your family's needs. Our highly qualified and experienced teachers and Early Childhood Educators give personalized attention to our students and offer supportive resources to parents and families.

The RASC Vancouver Centre is one of 29 chapters of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Monthly meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday of each month at the HR MacMillan Space Centre at 1100 Chestnut St in Vancouver. Weather permitting, we host several public observing sessions in various locations in the Lower Mainland. We also work with SFU, UBC and BCIT to provide programs of interest to the general public. The RASC Vancouver Centre also works to assist teachers in elementary and secondary schools by providing tools and materials in support of astronomical education. We work with local governments to provide assistance in developing responsible lighting policy to promote the reduction of light pollution and night sky preservation in our region

All Our Relations goal is to build a seven bed residential hospice and resource centre in the Waterloo Region that will serve the specific needs of the dying and their families. The hospice will provide a tranquil setting in which life’s last journey can be taken in an atmosphere of dignity, support and love. All Our Relations will welcome all individuals regardless of age or the disease or illness causing death. The adjoining Retreat Centre (also referred to as a resource and learning centre) will facilitate the continuation of individual and community programs already offered by All Our Relations, such as the Living Well Dying Well Conference, speaker events with renowned authors and teachers such as Bernie Siegel MD and Deepak Chopra, and workshops such as The Symbolic Communication of the Dying with palliative care nurse and author Maggie Callanan.

The We Are One Jazz Project was founded in 2008 by Toronto-based jazz pianist and educator Howard Rees. It provides a creative answer to the needs of Toronto communities by bringing together young ‘at-risk’ children and master jazz musicians in an enriched learning and performance environment. The project works in partnership with the Toronto District School Board to organize children (grades 3-6) in ‘high priority’ neighbourhoods into large-scale jazz choirs, directed and mentored by master musicians. Rehearsals over a four-month period lead to a public performance at a high-profile venue. Each year, the project touches some 4,000 students, extended family, teachers, and community members. Thousands more learn about the project through alliances with various media, including TV, radio and print coverage, and social networks.

Tyee is a Montessori alternative program school, committed to providing a rich learning environment for all its students based both on Montessori principles and on fulfilling the expectations of the Ministry of Education for all schools. There are aproximately two hundred students registered in Kindergarten through Grade Seven in multi-age groupings. Students take responsibility from an early age, making decisions about how their time is spent on the learning tasks they choose under the teacher's guidance. The Montessori approach supports continuous progress, as children work on personal goals and academic challenges. Students learn to work independently, in small groups, and as members of a class. Since Tyee's beginning in the mid-1980's, parents have made a conscious choice to enrol their children in this program and are highly involved in making the school's program a success.

Join the Dance is the Ontario representative for Pierre Dulaine's internationally acclaimed Dancing Classrooms of Mad Hot Ballroom and Take the Lead Fame. A 10 weeks Inter-curricular, Character Education program for children and youth that utilizes ballroom dancing as a vehicle to change the lives of not only the participants, but also the lives of the teachers and families who support them. Academic components of History, Geography, Literacy, Public Speaking and Social Studies are woven intricately into the joy of the dance that provides 50-minutes of good physical fitness and mental health stimulation. Culminating events allow diverse school communities to Join the Dance and Dancing Classrooms are fully endorsed by the Toronto Public and Catholic Boards. $100 will provide 1 student in a classroom with twenty 50-minute sessions for ten weeks. $2,000 sponsorship/donation provides the program to one entire classroom.

Developing Scholars is a registered Canadian charity that provides opportunities for Guatemalan children living in poor and rural areas of their country to attend school and other educational opportunities that they and their families could not otherwise afford. Guatemala is one of the poorest countries in the Americas and the rural areas are particularly poor. In a few selected communities, we work with community leaders and our local representatives to identify and support educational projects of various kinds.We have successfully started a middle school (Samox), where school previously ended at the elementary level,which has now been funded by the government.In the community of La Primavera, we started a high school ,providing teacher salaries, academic material and supplies, as well as training workshops. We also provide individual scholarships to 30 academically qualified students at the high school and university level,assisting them in reaching their academic goals.

The Boston Arts Academy Foundation (BAAF) was established to raise essential funds for Boston Arts Academy, our city's only public high school for the arts. BAAF raises 35% of the school's budget from private sources to pay for the arts teachers, programming, and student wellness initiatives not covered by the school district. Without such support, our city's young people, living in one of the cultural capitals of the world, would not be able to attend a public arts high school. Boston Arts Academy (BAA) provides Boston's low-income students with access to an arts and academic education not otherwise available to them. BAA prepares a diverse community of aspiring artist-scholars to be successful in their college or professional careers and to be engaged members of a democratic society. Students of all levels of academic ability attend BAA through our academic-blind admissions process. An average of 94% of BAA graduates are accepted to college - most the first in their families to do so.

Founded in 1995, LFT is the only Toronto school to combine the intellectually stimulating education of the French curriculum from France with the inclusive Canadian perspective and values. From PK through grade 12, our students are fully immersed in the best aspects of our two complimentary cultures. We have a co-ed enrolment of over 450 students, and a truly international student body, with nearly half of our students speaking French at home. Many of our students also speak an additional language. The intimate size of the school has allowed us to create a close-knit, integrated and respectful non-denominational community within our school. Most of our teachers, and the school’s headmaster, hail from France’s education system and many have taught internationally producing an enriched and expansive educational environment. LFT offers a quality education recognized by the best North American and international universities.