Giving Back
For the past few years zinc Roe has supported a number of charities. It’s part of being a good corporate citizen. Everyone on our team puts forward the name of one charity to give to. It’s a great chance to learn more about all the great work that charities are doing both here at home and around the world. To mark the holidays zinc Roe is giving a total of $1800 to nine projects. I hope you’ll take a minute to learn more about each of these groups.
Design Hope Toronto is a volunteer initiative that raises funds and awareness for local organizations dedicated to helping the homeless. We invite artists to create one-of-a-kind artworks inspired by the idea of “shelter.” These pieces are then auctioned and raffled off at our annual event with all of the proceeds going to one of the many deserving homeless programs in Toronto.
Sistering is a women’s agency serving homeless, marginalized and low-income women in Toronto. Our programs and services help women gain greater control over their life circumstances.
The Stephen Lewis Foundation supports community-based organizations that are turning the tide of HIV/AIDS in Africa. They provide care to women who are ill and struggling to survive; assist orphans and other AIDS-affected children; reach heroic grandmothers who almost single-handedly care for their orphan grandchildren; and sustain associations of people living with HIV and AIDS.
The Redwood is a haven. We’re here to help women and children just like you live free from domestic abuse. Free from fear. Free from threat. We provide safe and accessible services – from a secure home to counseling to legal support. We help you get your life back on track. And we bring the promise of a better future.
Mennonite Central Committee works alongside local churches and communities in more than 50 countries, including Canada and the United States, to carry out disaster relief, sustainable community development and justice and peace-building work in the name of Christ. MCC also seeks to build bridges to connect people and ideas across cultural, political and economic divides.
The Snowsuit Fund is an Ottawa-based charity that raises funds for the purchase and distribution of snowsuits to needy children, 15 years and under, in our community. In our 2008/2009 season, we distributed nearly 15,000 new snowsuits.
Interval House provides a continuum of services that enable abused women and children to have access to safe shelter and responsive services that help them establish lives free from violence. The continuum includes integrated and specialized services related to counselling, advocacy, outreach, legal and housing support, as well as programs to help build economic self-sufficiency.
Sunnybrook Veteran’s Care proudly cares for those who risked their lives fighting for our freedom. Home to veterans of several wars and the largest veterans care facility in Canada, Sunnybrook provides advanced and compassionate care that promotes health and independent living for our veterans and helps us better serve all seniors who turn to us for care.
Map is a team of photographers working together since 1993 encouraging and helping young photographers, writers and researchers. Map actively advocates social awareness campaigns in the rural as well in the urban communities in Bangladesh through their visual campaign materials using photo exhibitions and participatory workshops.
December 24th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Thank you! Although MCC has been working to provide a hand of assistance to some of the world’s most vulnerable people since 1920, we keep a pretty low profile. This allows us to focus on our work, not on advertising. We are humbled and honoured that you discovered us and have chosen to support the work that we are involved in. Thank you for allowing us to facilitate your gift to others this Christmas.