Our Community Partners

Family Service Ontario

Established in 1974 with the goal of providing accreditation to and creating a provincial presence for Family Service agencies, Family Service Ontario transformed into an advocate for its member agencies. For more than 50 years, Family Service Ontario has tackled some of the most significant and pressing issues, trends, and challenges that leaders face in the province’s social service sector. By working together, we’re better equipped to understand and attend to the needs of Ontarians as they face increasingly complex challenges.

Great Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce

Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to providing strong, continued service to 1,700+ members in one of Canada’s marquee pioneering and entrepreneurial business communities. For the past 134 years, dating back to the Chamber’s founding as the Berlin Board of Trade, they have expanded into one of the largest and more innovative Chambers in Canada by focusing on the needs of all our members, big and small.

Black Health Alliance

The Black Health Alliance is a community-led registered charity working to improve the health and well-being of Black communities in Canada. Building on our track record as an effective mobilizer and champion, they continue to grow their movement for change.

African Family Revival Organization (AFRO)

AFRO addresses key issues concerning African community including education, family matters, sports and youth activities, and meaningful integration in the mainstream society.

Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region (SASCWR)

SASCWR support survivors of sexual violence. They listen, facilitate healing, and celebrate resiliency. Using an intersectional feminist approach, they work to transform systems that promote gender-based violence.

Canadian Aweil Youth Association (CAYA)

CAYA is a national non-political volunteer organization working to improve the Aweil province in South Sudan, to develop a society where all youth, children, women, men, disabled and seniors have access to education, medical care, food, clean water and no violence of any kind.

Kinbridge Community Association is a community

Kinbridge Community Association is a community based organization that works to build capacity in the people that they serve. As a grass roots organization they strive to develop and run programs that serve the needs of their community as identified by their community.

Let’s Build the Future Together!

Onyx Initiative

The purpose of Onyx Initiative is to expand the Black Talent pipeline by fostering cohesive, mutually beneficial partnerships to close the systemic gap in the recruiting and selection of Black university and college students and recent graduates for roles in corporate Canada.

Conestoga College

Connect life and learning—that’s the Conestoga promise. For more than 50 years, the college has delivered on that promise through career-focused education and training that supports individual success, community engagement, and regional prosperity.

Kitchener Public Library

The Kitchener Public Library is the public library system for the city of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. It consists of five libraries; a large Central Library in the downtown core, with four Community Libraries, spread out to provide services for the neighborhoods of Kitchener

African Women Alliance

The African Women’s Alliance of Waterloo Region, founded in 1995, is a nonprofit organization that promotes African culture and heritage through educational and social activities. It supports African women and families in overcoming structural barriers and helps newcomers settle by connecting them to local services and programs.

Cambridge Food Bank

The Cambridge Food Bank offers food and support to people and community groups in need within Cambridge and North Dumfries.

Food Bank of Waterloo Region (FBWR)

Through community partnerships, the Food Bank of Waterloo Region obtains and distributes “emergency food from our neighbours for our neighbours”- Mission statement of FBWR.

Greenway- Chaplin Community Centre

Greenway-Chaplin Community Centre connects community residents by offering neighbours and friends the opportunity to thrive by providing recreational, educational, supportive programs and volunteer opportunities.

Inspired. Together

Everywhere you look, people are inspired to learn, lead and build lifelong relationships. To give their all and to give back.

From the staff who take pride in meaningful relationships with students to faculty who include students in groundbreaking research – you’ll know and feel you belong at Wilfred Laurier University.

The Healing of the Seven Generations

Healing of the Seven Generations is a place that provides calmer waters. Life in the future is spiritual, and healing has taken place, from between the wings of the Creator above for the men, the women, the youth, and the children.

Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health

Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health is committed to supporting individuals’ journey towards improved well-being and mental health by bringing together the expertise of Carizon, KW Counselling Services, and Monica Place.

Community Justice Initiatives

Using Restorative Justice, Community Justice Initiatives (CJI) addresses conflict and crime by engaging people who cause harm, people affected by the harm, ad the communiy.

Social Development Centre Waterloo Region

The Social Development Centre Waterloo Region is a learning organization that supports all voices in the creation of community-wide solutions ensuring that lived experience is the basis for collective action.

Porchlight Counselling and Addiction Services

Porchlight provides a safe space where counselling and addiction services support the emotional well-being of people in Cambridge and North Dumfries.

Bridges to Belonging

The purpose of Bridges to Belonging is to affirm the inherent dignity and worth of people living with disabilities and to walk with them to overcome isolation, live free of barriers to inclusion and experience belonging.

African Community Wellness Initiative (ACWI)

ACWI is an Ontario, Canada based non-profit organization that began ten years ago as a grassroots initiative responding to the experiences of communities of African descent impacting our collective wellness. ACWI has since worked with community based and system partners to develop a number of program interventions and research projects with the goal of promoting wellness in African, Caribbean and Black-Identifying communities.

Muslim Social Services Waterloo Region (MSS)

Operating uniquely as a not-for-profit organization: offering spiritually and culturally sensitive humanitarian and social services to the Muslim and non-Muslim communities of the Waterloo Region.

MSS is a charitable organization that has been accredited under Imagine Canada’s Standards Program.

Child Witness Centre

Child Witness Centre has provided support, education, and advocacy for young people who are victims or witnesses of abuse and crime, along with their families, in Waterloo Region, Guelph, and Wellington County. Led by a diverse Board of Directors with varied professional expertise, their work creates a safe, compassionate, and empowering environment for children and youth. Guided by the values of kindness, compassion, and generosity, their work is strengthened by the dedication of donors, funders, volunteers, and supporters who help make a meaningful difference in the lives of young people.