Recent Contributions

MAY 2026

Bread of Life Ministries: $10,000 for their Street Connection program (mobile soup kitchen) that assists 2-300 people per week.

Chebucto Connections: $3000 to provide nutritious meals for their MANCAVE program, which brings young males together to challenge harmful norms and build healthier relationships.

Stepping Stone Association: $5000 for their Food Security Program to address urgent food insecurity being experienced by current and former sex workers.

North Grove: $6000 to the Community Meal Program that provides more than 1400 nutritious drop-in meals each month.

Shelter Nova Scotia: $10,000 for the Meals that Matter Food Security Initiative that provides grocery gift cards and nutritious bulk food to 300 adults experiencing homelessness.

NPF Community Organization Society: $5000 for their Youth Poverty Intervention & Community Stabilization Program to purchase winter clothing, emergency food, hygiene supplies and stabilization kits.

Phoenix Youth: $5000 for their Residential Housing Program to provide nutritious meals at its weekly sessions for youth.

Spencer House Seniors Centre: $5000 for their Today Cafe and Social Market programs that provide hot lunches for 30-60 seniors per day, many of whom stay to access the centre's afternoon programs.

Halifax Humanities Society: $1500 to purchase nutritious snacks for the HH101 class and Alumni Seminar.

February 2026

Halifax Regional Centre for Education: For several decades, we have provided HRCE social workers with $25,000 annually to ensure that children and families are able to get their basic needs when they are at their most vulnerable.

Salvation Army: $10,000 to provide 150 hot meals to the most vulnerable around HRM every Wednesday.

Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia: $3500 for the society's Emergency Grocery Support for Marginalized Women's Program to purchase 280 $25 grocery gift cards .

Souls Harbour Rescue Mission: $7500 to the mission's Food Shelter and Housing Support Program for people experiencing homelessness, hunger and crisis in North End Halifax and surrounding communities.

Children's Aid Foundation of Nova Scotia: $10,000 to the foundation's Emergency Single Family Assistance Program that provides timely financial support to families in crisis and facing extreme poverty.

Hope Blooms: $5000 for the organization's Cultural Community Food Market Program to support low-income single mothers in Uniacke Square by providing fresh produce and nutritious meals.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Halifax: $2500 for the organization's Youth Activity Program to ease access to sport and activities for the most vulnerable children in our community.

November 2025

Calvyn Presbyterian Church: $1365 to provide Christmas dinners for 21 families.

YWCA - Supportive Housing for Young Mothers: $5000 for long-term housing and other support for young single mothers aged 16-24 to help them transition to other programs or more stable housing.

YWCA - WISH (Supportive Housing Program): $5000 to provide safe, affordable housing and support for women and gender-diverse people transitioning from homelessness.

YWCA - Safer Spaces: $5000 to provide emergency and transitional housing for young adult survivors of sexual exploitation and human trafficking who are working to exit the sex trade.