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SEED invests in education by providing scholarships to around 100 high school and university students. Scholarships allow otherwise disempowered students to access much more than an education. Schools in Kenya provide students with food, health, counselling and community support. They allow students to evade tasks of subsistence and live out their childhood. Most importantly, education becomes a tool to combat poverty, allowing children to gather skills, pursue their dreams, and live up to their human potential. Scholarships cover costs for students' school fees, which pay for lunch fees, textbooks, and extra teaching. Many students are unable to afford these school fees, thus diminishing the likelihood of them completing their education. SEED also operates a primary school in Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya called SEED Junior Academy. SJA provides an education and lunch to around 60 children who would otherwise not be in school due to a lack of public education in the slum.

The Lethbridge Public Library connects you to ideas at our two community gathering places, the Main Branch in the heart of downtown and The Crossings Branch in West Lethbridge Centre, as well as on our Bookmobile which travels across the City. We invite you to log on to our 24/7 accessible virtual library at www.lethlib.ca. Visit the Library to enjoy speakers, forums, music, symposiums, an art gallery, festivals, craft fairs, info sessions, current events discussions, free Wi-Fi and public use computers. Our youth programs begin with babes and extend right up to toddlers, tweens and teens. We have a vibrant adult literacy program at the Main Branch called 'Read On'. Your Library card gives you access to fabulous databases like Ancestry.ca and Mango. Use it to download your favourite eBooks, eAudiobooks and magazines. Borrow DVDs from our amazing Blockbusters Collection and take a bestseller home today from the popular TopReads Collection. In 2012 730,460 people visted the Library.

To increase scientific knowledge, education, and public understanding of human origins, evolution, behavior and survival.

PACE Society consists of active and inactive sex workers, community leaders and professionals that work collaboratively to create opportunities for individuals involved in survival sex work to make free choices pertaining to their lives. In light of the changing social, legal and economic conditions in which sex work takes place, PACE Society makes the distinction between sex work (formerly prostitution) and survival sex work. Survival sex work is defined as the lack of opportunity to consistently exercise the right to refuse sex work. We work to increase the health, safety and rights of refusal for individuals involved in survival sex work.

Every year, millions of animals suffer severely in laboratory experiments — with results that often cannot be extended with dependability to human beings. The British Columbia Foundation for Non-Animal Research was founded to help fund and promote alternative methods of research and to work toward replacing the use of animals in laboratory procedures.

The ISC is a non profit organization that presents high quality and varied chamber concerts, fostering the best of Calgary's own performing musicians. Concerts range from baroque right through to contemporary and include some exciting jazz groups. The ISC makes valuable contributions to all Calgarians by offering innovative educational and outreach programs. With affordable ticket prices and an exciting 8 concert season, the ISC is a Sound Investment!

Island Montessori is a school for children from two and a half years of age (preschool) through school-aged. We are an inclusive school and are proud to have children from a variety of economic, including low income families, and ethnic backgrounds as well as with a whole host of abilities and special needs. Island Montessori opened in Sept. 1973 and hundreds of children have attended over the years. We believe in integration and early intervention. We believe that all people have the right to respect, dignity, fairness, equality, consideration, compassion, and empowerment. We never, ever give up on a child or family, and provide whatever support is needed. Our program is tailored to suit the child's needs in the program - not trying to mold the child to suit the needs of the program - and promotes self-reliance and independence, and fosters a spirit of co-operation in communal endeavour. We celebrate and honour diversity. encourages the active participation of each child,