About Us

Shared Platform Projects

MakeWay’s shared platform is home to some of the most innovative social change projects in Canada, building solutions to a range of complex environmental and social challenges.

About Us

Shared Platform Projects

MakeWay’s shared platform is home to some of the most innovative social change projects in Canada, building solutions to a range of complex environmental and social challenges.

Our Projects

Above Ground

Above Ground works to ensure that companies based in Canada or supported by the Canadian state respect human rights wherever they operate.

AIDS-Free World Canada

AIDS-Free World Canada works for a more just, urgent, and effective global response to HIV and AIDS.

The Arctic Funders Collaborative is a small network of philanthropic funders investing in the Arctic to support and contribute to the collaborative efforts needed for Arctic communities, cultures and ecosystems to thrive.

Átl’ka7tsem/Howe Sound Marine Stewardship Initiative

Conducting research, engagement, and education, to develop decision-support tools in service of marine planning and relationship building in Átl’ka7tsem/Howe Sound

Atlantic Water Network

Empowering Atlantic Canadians to leverage local knowledge in support of healthy waters.

Ayalik Project

Giving Inuit youth opportunities to build self-esteem and confidence through challenging outdoor adventure.

BC Freshwater Initiative

Supporting innovative projects and strategic collaboration that advance freshwater protection in British Columbia.

BE Initiative

The Black Environmental Initiative’s purpose is to create more opportunities for Black communities and individuals to participate in environmental action.

Binners’ Project

Improving economic opportunities for binners.

Canadian Biotechnology Action Network

Promoting food sovereignty and democratic decision-making to protect the integrity of the environment, health, food, and the livelihoods of Canadians.

Climate Change Connection

Connecting Manitobans to climate change facts and solutions.

Coalition for Action on Toxics

Strengthening laws for the health of people and the environment.

CommUNITY Doulas

Providing longer-term community care support with the services doulas offer.

Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW)

Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW) explores ways of communicating and promoting community adaptation to the rapidly increasing risks and hazards of extreme weather and the public health impacts.

Dene Nahjo

Dene Nahjo is a new generation of leaders and community builders promoting Indigenous leadership and advancing social and environmental justice for northern peoples.

Digital Justice Lab

Building a more just and equitable digital future for Canadians.

DigitalNWT

Strengthening the foundation of community-based digital literacy in the Northwest Territories.

East Scarborough Storefront

Collaborating to support residents and build community in the inner suburban neighbourhood of Kingston Galloway/Orton Park (KGO).

Echo Conservation

On the ground conservation, protecting wildlife and wilderness in British Columbia.

EcoAnalytics

EcoAnalytics is a Canadian market research initiative of non-profit environmental groups, which aims to better understand public opinion in support of Canada’s environmental movement.

ENRICH Project

The ENRICH – Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities, and Community Health – Project works with Indigenous and Black Communities to address the impacts of environmental racism.

EntrepreNorth

Supporting community-based entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses and livelihoods across Northern Canada.

FoodBridge

Building bold collaborations for regenerative food and farming.

Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW)

Advancing progressive public policies and decisions about the future of our most precious resource—water.

Hidden Harvest Ottawa

Hidden Harvest Ottawa provides the opportunity, education, infrastructure and means for people to access the edible fruit and nut trees around them.

IndigenEYEZ

Building the confidence of Indigenous youth.

Indigenous Food Collective

Working towards Indigenous food self-determination by passing on traditional food practices, strengthening identity, and encouraging youth leadership.

Inner Activist

Helping changemakers develop strong leadership skills to achieve more effective social change.

Innovative Young Indigenous Leaders Symposium

Supporting young Indigenous people to have an active role in collaborating with leaders of British Columbia to facilitate positive change.

IPCA Innovation Program

The IPCA Innovation Program seeks to support the establishment of Indigenous protected and conserved areas across Canada by building capacity, mobilizing knowledge, and facilitating Indigenous-led conservation and stewardship initiatives.

Jane’s Walk

Engaging communities and celebrating thriving, livable, and walkable cities.

Marine Plan Partnership for the North Pacific Coast

Advancing marine planning in British Columbia by supporting a collaborative, government-driven, and science-based process.

Nawalakw Culture Project

Creating a connection with land and language, and creating economic opportunities for the local community.

Nexwagwezʔan – Dasiqox Tribal Park Initiative

Realizing the Xeni Gwet’in and Yuneŝit’in community vision for Dasiqox Tribal Park.

Northern Confluence

Working at the confluence of salmon, community, and land use in Northern British Columbia.

Northern Indigenous Stewardship Network

Building connections and facilitating information-sharing amongst Indigenous guardian and environmental stewardship programs across Northern Canada.

Northern Youth Leadership

Empowering and inspiring a generation of courageous young northern leaders.

Not Far From the Tree

Inspiring Torontonians to harvest, share, celebrate, and steward the bounty from urban orchards.

Ontario Indigenous Youth Partnership Project

Supporting youth-led action-focused projects that benefit Indigenous youth and their communities.

Organizing for Change

Developing more robust, focused, and effective approaches to advancing environmental policy initiatives in British Columbia.

Orijinative Men’s Circle

Orijinative Men’s Circle is supporting confident and informed Indigenous Men, one gathering at a time.

Our Living Waters

Working to achieve the ambitious goal of all Canada’s waters in good health by 2030.

Powered by Data

Helping nonprofits get the information they need to succeed.

Project Neutral

Project Neutral helps you understand how your daily choices impact climate change and what you can do about it.

Qanak

Fostering Inuit community engagement with governance structures, and supporting leadership skills development in the next generation of leaders.

Rainforest Solutions Implementation Project

Supporting implementation of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreement Implementation Framework.

Reel Youth

Empowering youth to produce and distribute films about the issues most important to them.

Resilient Waters

Working to protect the integrity of wild fish habitat in the lower Fraser River by identifying, upgrading, and replacing aging flood control infrastructure.

Rivers Without Borders Canada

Encouraging conservation-based planning in the transboundary watersheds of southeast Alaska and northwest British Columbia.

Round River Canada

Encouraging conservation-based planning in the transboundary watersheds of southeast Alaska and northwest British Columbia.

School for Social Entrepreneurs Ontario

Guiding students from all backgrounds to drive social change.

Sea to Cedar

Connecting people to place throughout the Broughton Archipelago and beyond.

Share Reuse Repair Initiative

Bringing community, business, and government together to foster a vibrant sharing, reuse and repair sector.

Shift

Bringing together and educating Canadian pension fund savers, leaders, and influencers to minimize climate risks and tap opportunities in a low-carbon economy.

summerlunch+

Closing the achievement gap through nutritious lunches and engaging food literacy programming.

Supporting Wellbeing

Providing culturally relevant mental health response training for on the land programmers in Northern communities.

The Existence Project

Connecting marginalized people to their community through the power of storytelling.

The Northern Birthwork Collective

The Northern Birthwork Collective’s mission is to create culturally safe and gender inclusive spaces, programming and services for our community as it relates to reproductive health, pregnancy, birth, postpartum and the parenting journey.

Together Project

Connecting refugee newcomers and Canadians to build stronger, more integrated communities.

Turtle Island Institute

Reawakening the spirit of ancestral Indigenous ways of knowing, speaking, doing, and being to help changemakers realize large scale transformational systems change.

Watersheds BC

Catalyzing, supporting, and strengthening local watershed governance and security.

Western Arctic Youth Collective (WAYC)

Empowering youth to be changemakers by providing a platform of youth-led collaborative initiatives and partnerships in their communities.