Community Partners
Tier 1 Community Partners
BC Poverty Reduction Coalition
The BC Poverty Reduction Coalition is comprised of over 100 organizations and community mobilizations that come together to advocate for public policy solutions to end poverty, homelessness and inequality in B.C. We aim to improve the health and well-being of all living in British Columbia. The Coalition advocates for a targeted and comprehensive poverty reduction strategy that prioritizes equity-seeking groups, and a whole government, cross-ministry approach to ending poverty. Our work is grounded in the foundation of universal human rights.
Community Based Research Centre
Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC) promotes the health of people of diverse sexualities and genders through research and intervention development.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social, economic and environmental justice. Founded in 1980, the CCPA is one of Canada’s leading progressive voices in public policy debates.
Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH) is a non-partisan research and policy partnership between academics, policy and decision makers, service providers and people with lived experience of homelessness.
Canada Without Poverty
Led by a Board of Directors with lived and living experience of poverty, Canada Without Poverty (CWP) is a non-partisan, non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to ending poverty in Canada. Through engagement with partner civil society organizations, Government bodies, and the United Nations, CWP has been championing the human rights of individuals experiencing poverty and marginalization through awareness-building campaigns, human rights reporting, public policy development, and building government relations for over 50 years.
Coalition Des Familles LGBT+/LGBT+ Family Coalition
The LGBT+ Family Coalition is a community rights organization that aims for the social and legal recognition of families from sexual diversity and gender plurality.
Conseil Québécois LGBT
Founded in 1993, the mission of the Quebec LGBT Council (CQ-LGBT) is to consolidate the rights of LGBT people in Quebec and to advocate for the rights to be acquired, so that no one is left behind in the recognition of sexual and gender diversity. The CQ-LGBT is more than sixty organizations and community groups across Quebec that work together, in a spirit of collaboration and mutual aid, to improve the services offered to people of sexual and gender diversity.
Family Service Toronto
For over 100 years, Family Service Toronto (FST) has been helping people who are confronted with a variety of life challenges. We assist individuals and families through our counselling, community engagement and public education programs, and advocacy work. Our services are available to everyone who lives or works in Toronto.
Family Service Toronto
FrancoQueer is the francophone association of 2SLGBTQIA+ (2Spirit or Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, biromantic, bisexual, trans, questioning, queer, intersex, aromantic, asexual, agender, non-binary and more) people and their allies in Ontario. Founded in 2006 and duly registered as a non-profit organization in Ontario, FrancoQueer is the first association dedicated to French-speaking 2SLGBTQIA+ people in the province.
Make Poverty History Manitoba
Make Poverty History Manitoba (MPHM) is a multi-sector collaborative coalition – representing Indigenous, newcomer, labour, women, 2SLGBTQ*, disability, business, education, student, youth, urban, rural, and northern communities.
Queer Ontario
Queer Ontario is a provincial network of gender and sexually diverse individuals — and their allies — who are committed to questioning, challenging, and reforming the laws, institutional practices, and social norms that regulate queer people. Operating under liberationist and sex-positive principles, we fight for accessibility, recognition, and pluralism, using social media and other tactics to engage in political action, public education, and coalition-building.
United Way Centraide Canada
United Way is improving lives locally by moving people from poverty to possibility, helping kids be all they can be, and building strong and healthy communities.
Tier 2 Community Partners
Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project
The Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project (NSRAP) seeks equity, justice, and human rights for 2SLGBTQIA+ people in Nova Scotia. NSRAP seeks to create change in our communities and our society at large so that all 2SLGBTQIA+ people are included, valued, and celebrated. We achieve this through building community and developing strong networks outside of the community in addition to public outreach, education, and political action. In 2023, NSRAP will be celebrating 28 years of service to Nova Scotia`s Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Agender & Aromantic, and beyond communities.
The 519
The 519 is committed to the health, happiness and full participation of the 2SLGBTQ+ communities. A City of Toronto agency with an innovative model of Service, Space and Leadership, we strive to make a real difference in people’s lives, while working to promote inclusion, understanding and respect.
Ottawa Senior Pride Network
The Ottawa Senior Pride Network (OSPN) began in 2008 at Centretown Community Health Centre (CCHC). CCHC has a long history of supporting queer health in the city.
Nunavut Association of Non-Profit Organizations (NANPO)
The Nunavut Association of Non-Profit Organizations (NANPO) is a hub of free resources, tools and connections designed to help you build, scale and amplify your non-profit.
Tier 3 Community Partners
Canadian Virtual Hospice
The Canadian Virtual Hospice provides support and personalized information about advanced illness, palliative care, loss and grief, to people living with illness, family members, people working in healthcare, educators, and researchers. The Canadian Virtual Hospice is a division of the International Centre for Dignity and Palliative Care Inc., a registered charity.
Hamilton Community Legal Clinic
Hamilton Community Legal Clinic is a non-profit community legal clinic serving low-income residents of Hamilton. The Queer Justice Project (QJP) is designed to address unmet legal needs of the LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit [‘queer’] communities in Hamilton.
Native Women’s Association of Canada
The Native Women’s Association of Canada is a National Indigenous Organization representing the political voice of Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people in Canada, inclusive of First Nations on and off reserve, status and non-status, disenfranchised, Métis and Inuit.
Niagara Folk Arts Multicultural Centre
We offer a variety of newcomer and immigrant settlement programs & services helping you build for you and your family, a new life in Canada
Northern Mosaic Network
As an organization, the Northern Mosaic Network strives to make communities in the Northwest Territories a safer, more open, more knowledgeable place for all 2SLGBTQIPA+ people and their allies.
Ontario Digital Literacy and Access Network (ODLAN)
Our mission is to remove digital literacy and access barriers. We work with service providers to develop digital strategies that will address the challenges marginalized communities face when accessing online service provisions.
2 Spirits in Motion Society
2SiMS is a National organization for and by 2 Spirit Peoples across Turtle Island. We aim to express ourselves through cultural ways of knowing and being around gender and sexuality; and to succeed and be empowered in all areas that are grounded in the medicines that 2 Spirit people carry from coast to coast to coast.
YMCA of Greater Toronto
The YMCA of Greater Toronto is a charity empowering people with essential services, opportunities to better their lives, and a sense of community.
Queer Yukon
Queer Yukon supports, promotes, and organizes events for the Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (2SLGBTQIA+) community and our allies in the Yukon.
Past Community Members
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
OCAP is a direct-action anti-poverty organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We mount campaigns against regressive government policies as they affect poor and working people. In addition, we provide direct-action advocacy for individuals against welfare and ODSP, public housing and others who deny poor people what they are entitled to. We believe in the power of people to organize themselves. We believe in the power of resistance.
Institutional Partners
Dalhousie University
Located in Nova Scotia, Canada (Mi’kma’ki) with four campuses in Halifax and Truro, and satellite locations in Yarmouth and Saint John, New Brunswick, our broad range of academic programs attract and retain a diverse mix of incredible students, scholars, researchers and staff who work together with interdisciplinary perspective and a focus on service.
Saint Mary’s University
One of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities - known for international collaborations, entrepreneurship, and research. We offer programs in Arts, Science, Business and Graduates studies to 7,000 students from over 118 countries. Nestled in the heart of Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Canada’s east coast, Saint Mary’s University is marked by iconic buildings, green spaces and fresh ocean air.
University of Toronto
Founded in 1827, the University of Toronto is very much like the Toronto region itself: a large, multicultural community with a huge number of opportunities and resources. U of T is organized around neighbourhoods, where smaller gatherings of people come together to learn and think and work and ultimately make those major contributions that address the great global challenges of our time.
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The 2SLGBTQ+ Poverty in Canada: Improving Livelihood and Social Wellbeing Project is always looking for new Community Partners.