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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Waterloo Region
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Waterloo Region provides volunteer mentors to over 1300 youth each year. We believe that the healthy development of every child is enhanced by a positive, nurturing, mentoring relationship. We do not receive government funding and we do not charge fee for service. We are solely reliant on support from our community. You can help us by supporting our programs. With over 200 children waiting to be matched we need your support. It takes only a minute to change a life.

Family Counselling Centre of Cambridge & North Dumfries
Building a strong relationship and satisfying family life can be challenging. We are here to help you strengthen connections, improve communication, and increase harmony and balance in your home. We offer professional and confidential counselling services for individuals, couples and families that are based on the goals that you seek to achieve.

Fiddlesticks Community Centre
Fiddlesticks uses the Community Development Mode of decentralized service delivery. Our focus is primarily youth, providing a safe place for youth to feel a connection to their community through leadership development opportunities. We connect community through recreation based programs. When people are connected, their community is a safer place to live! We believe volunteering is fun We believe recreation and leisure should be accessible We believe that youth are our leaders today We believe in active community development

Homer Watson House & Gallery
Homer Watson House & Gallery, built in 1835, is the homestead of Homer Watson, Canada’s first noted landscape artist (1855-1936). The Gallery, constructed in 1906, is one of the oldest operating galleries in the Province of Ontario. Watson’s early Victorian house was also the home of the renowned Doon School of Fine Arts during the 1950’s and 60’s and drew such artists as Fred Varley and Carl Schaefer. In 1955, the Homer Watson House was officially recognized with a plaque by the national Historic Sites and Monuments of Canada. In 1980, the house and surrounding three-acre property were designated under the Ontario Heritage Act as being of architectural and historic significance. Today, the Gallery operates as a vibrant and active arts centre that encourages artistic expression though the museum and historical artwork, contemporary exhibitions, visual art programs for all ages and skill levels, curriculum based school programs, special events and rental opportunities.

Junior Achievement of Waterloo Region
Junior Achievement provides Waterloo Region programs that teach young people how to save and invest, prepare them with skills required in today's business world and foster their entrepreneurial ambitions. It ensures that there will be a generation - after ours - that is able to support itself and those in need.

KidsAbility Foundation
Proudly founded and supported by local Rotarians since 1957, KidsAbility is the recognized leader in Waterloo Region and Guelph-Wellington for empowering children and youth with a wide range of complex special needs to realize their full potential. Through a talented team of therapists, teachers, support staff and volunteers, 5,699 children and youth, from birth to age 18, benefited from therapy and support services at our sites in Cambridge, Fergus, Guelph, Kitchener and Waterloo in 2015. In Cambridge alone, KidsAbility assisted 1,309 children. However, there are still 620 others waiting for vital services. In the Cambridge area, we have two locations – one at 250 Hespeler Road and another at 887 Langs Drive. For more information, visit our website at kidsability.ca.

Langs
Langs (formerly Langs Farm Village Association) was established as a community development project in 1978 by a group of citizens and service providers concerned about vandalism and the lack of accessible services in the community. These individuals believed that the establishment of a community-based organization would play a positive and preventative role in the neighbourhood. Langs is a neighbourhood based organization, but has become so much more! Langs has grown to become a dynamic, respected multi-service organization that uses a community development approach to provide comprehensive health, social and recreational services that are responsive to the changing needs of our community.

Nutrition for Learning
Nutrition for Learning has been a registered charitable organization since 1997. We support community based nutrition programs committed to improving the learning capacity, health and well being of children and youth in Waterloo Region. Research has proven that students coming to school hungry do not perform well in the classroom, have difficulty concentrating, display behavioral problems, are less alert and are often lethargic. Our programs impact the physical, cognitive, behavioral and academic needs of children and youth in Waterloo Region.

Social Venture Partners Waterloo Region
Social Venture Partners (SVP) is a global network of local individuals that are passionate about making a difference in their community and want to see a greater impact with their giving. SVP goes beyond traditional philanthropy by donating talent, time and funds to amplify the impact it has on each vetted charity in which it invests.

Strong Start Charitable Organization
Strong Start's Letters, Sounds and Words program targets children in Senior Kindergarten and Grade One (ages 5-7) who need a literacy boost. They are selected by their classroom teacher at the first sign of them lagging behind in their early literacy skills. These children are paired with trained community volunteers who come into the school to work one-on-one with them, playing carefully designed games and activities. Each volunteer receives four hours of training prior to working with a child for the first time. The games are organized in four strands: Letters, Sounds, Words and Building Words. The child will see 2-3 volunteers per week depending on the number of strands they are in, for a 10 week period. Each visit is 30 minutes long. The children’s knowledge is tested before and after the program, documenting gains in their early literacy skills. An adaptation of this program has also been created for English Language Learners up to age 9. As the child progresses through this program, their confidence and self-esteem grow. They see themselves as successful learners. The program also looks to build community by encouraging those who live and work in the community to be involved in supporting its children.

Sunrise Therapeutic Riding & Learning Centre
Therapeutic riding & therapeutic recreation greatly enrichs the lives of young people and adults with both phyiscal & developmental needs, by empowering them to achieve new goals. Using animals as facilitators, it creates a magical connection! Children & adults in these programs themselves, discovering abilities they did not know they had. Our students know that Sunrise is a "belonging place", where they can just be themselves.

Sunrise Therapeutic Riding & Learning Centre
Sunrise is a nationally accredited Therapeutic Riding Centre, providing year-round therapeutic riding lessons, taught by certified instructors, to individuals with a wide range of special needs. Sunrise also offers: - day program for teens & adults with special needs, - group programs for agencies and special education classes - instructor training courses & internships Sunrise also offers several fully integrated recreation programs for children with and without special needs: - Camp Sunrise*: summer day camps & leader-in-training programs - "Little Breeches" Club - spring & fall intro to horses (ages 4-7) - Riding Club, for independent riders *Accredited through the Ontario Camps Association (OCA) -

Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region
Women's Crisis Services operates HAVEN HOUSE in Cambridge: the ONLY shelter for abused women and their children. We serve women aged 16 and above who are experiencing abuse. We also offer outreach services to women who are not living in shelter but need support to move beyond violence.

YWCA Cambridge
As a member agency of YWCA Canada, YWCA Cambridge is part of a national movement known as the country’s oldest and largest women's multi-service organization, the largest national provider of shelter, literacy, life skills, employment and counselling programs, and is the second-largest provider of childcare services in Canada. For over 65 years, YWCA Cambridge has been a respected leader on issues that impact women and girls in our community.