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The annual summer festival is the centerpiece event for this organization and is a showcase for the best of CanLit. The 4 day festival takes place the 3rd week of July in Moose Jaw, SK. One of the guiding principles behind the summer festival is to provide intimate venues allowing for high levels of interaction between writers and readers. Another principle is to offer a program that promotes both established and emerging voices working in a variety of genres and mediums. Workshops, panels, Q&A sessions, readings, panel discussions, slam poetry competitions, live musical and/or theatrical entertainment and trivia contests give attendees plenty to choose from. More than 30 presenters attend each year with approximately 60 events held during the four days. Year round programming includes the monthly Performers Cafe open mic night (free event for all ages), the Cineview film series (bringing independent and foreign films to Moose Jaw through TIFF), and National Poetry Month readings.

SPECT, or Sterile Processing Education Charitable Trust, began with Christina Fast's vision of making a difference in West Africa. While volunteering on the Africa Mercy Ship, in Sierra Leone, Christina visited several local hospitals. The conditions she observed shocked her, and created within her a passion to "do something, as anything was better than nothing!" With the support of friends and family, SPECT was established and granted charitable status in the fall of 2013. Trustees of the organization include Olive Fast (chair), Jocelyn Wright (treasurer), and Torey Erdman (secretary). All donations go to supporting the mission of SPECT.

The Centre for Mindfulness Studies is an innovative charity in Toronto, Ontario. We offer mindfulness-based therapies and professional training for health care and social service providers. As a social enterprise, we use the revenue generated by these programs as a sustainable source of funding for the services we provide for free or at nominal cost to those who face economic and/or social barriers. In our social program, we have partnered with social service agencies across Toronto, training front-line workers in strategies for coping with stress, and delivering therapy to their clients; including low-income women in Parkdale, and isolated seniors in Lawrence Heights.

TomoeArts (pronounced toh-moh-ay) is a dance-theatre company that works between traditions and disciplines. TomoeArts promotes and performs nihon buyoh (Japanese classical dance), and creates performances incorporating Japanese forms and aesthetics. We have produced traditional dances in parks, contemporary dance-theatre in art galleries, festival-dance inspired performance with hand-held projectors in rainy city streets, and kabuki dance concerts featuring master artists from Japan.

The Victoria Humane Society will be a non-profit organization. Its purposes include: a) To rescue, rehabilitate and rehome lost, displaced, abandoned, abused, neglected and deserted animals. b) To encourage responsible pet guardianship. c) To foster a community understanding of the issues of animal neglect and abuse. d) To educate the public about the realities of pet overpopulation.

The Canadian Museum of Fraternal Lodges promotes public understanding of the history, culture, and role of fraternal organizations and societies in Canada.

Harmony Centre Owen Sound is a registered non-for-proft charitable organization based in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. The mandate of the organization centres around the use of a historic building for use by local choirs, artisans, community groups, poverty relief, huger relief and beyond. The building, which was previously Knox Presbyterian church, is being restored and transformed into a thriving, functional and positive hub for community interaction and cultural development. Through partnerships and donations, the Harmony Centre continues to grow. This facility combines performance, fresh ideas, community awareness and opportunity through bricks and mortar and administrative support. It is our goal to help build the community of Owen Sound through shared resources, and capitalizing on the value of communal facilities. Please help us continue to provide opportunities for all of our community, and contribute to sustainable arts, community outreach and poverty alleviation.

We are called to carry out this vision by gathering monthly in Edmonton and other cities/ towns across Canada, conducting tours with nights of ministry, holding teaching nights and evangelistic gatherings, putting on retreats and conferences, and leading missions trips outside of Canada. The Dream Involves You...

The Southern Ontario Military Muster (SOMM) was formed in 2012. The annual Southern Ontario Military Muster event is our primary charitable program. This two-day living history event brings Veterans, military personnel, cadets, civilians, vintage military vehicle owners, re-enactors from all eras, historians, vendors, gamers and not for profit Veteran and historical community groups together. We honour Veterans and educate the public. Throughout the year, we attend and bring vintage military vehicles to Veteran ceremonies and community events. We encourage the public to explore history to understand and appreciate the sacrifices given for the freedom we have today. We attempt to collect as many Veteran biographies as we can to publish in our annual calendar/program. Our standing committee, the Essex Memorial Spitfire Group was formed in January, 2014 and their mission is to erect a replica Spitfire in the Town of Essex to Honour our 400+ Essex County Airmen.

Founded in 2011, Essential Aid is a Canadian Charity that focuses on the needs of our children living in poverty. Services Include: Infant Food Bank Children's Essentials Crisis Support Prenatal Assistance Educational Seminars for Expecting Parents

Global Friends is Canadian charitable organization run entirely by volunteers. We inspire and are inspired by passion, compassion, action and impact. Global Friends is dedicated to helping connect and empower youth around the world. Our intent is not to set up models of dependency but to provide the resources and introductions for mutually beneficial partnerships that can lead to self-sustainability.  Our goals are to facilitate empowerment and encourage strategic partnerships so people thrive as individuals and collaborators.   We believe children are the future.  Their courage and ingenuity inspires us. We strive to nurture their potential to become independent, contributing members of their home neighbourhoods as well as valued members of the global community by providing resources to meet basic needs, funding meaningful education, and fostering environments where dreams can become reality.

The Guelph Neighbourhood Support Coalition is a network of Neighbourhood Groups, sponsoring agencies and program partners. Each neighbourhood group operates in at the grassroots level to meet the needs of children, youth and families in their community. Through the Coalition, the Neighbourhood Groups bring together their collective resources to share information, provide support, distribute available funding resources and advocate for community issues. We also celebrate the wonderful work happening in our neighbourhoods and the diversity of voices who live in them.