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.
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AIDS-Free World Canada
AIDS-Free World Canada works for a more just, urgent, and effective global response to HIV and AIDS.
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Arctic Funders Collaborative
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.
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Ayalik Project
Giving Inuit youth opportunities to build self-esteem and confidence through challenging outdoor adventure.
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BC Freshwater Initiative
Supporting innovative projects and strategic collaboration that advance freshwater protection in British Columbia.
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BE Initiative
The Black Environmental Initiative’s purpose is to create more opportunities for Black communities and individuals to participate in environmental action.
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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.
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Canadian Freshwater Alliance
Canadians identify with our home waters. Our history is interconnected by waterways and our future will be shaped by how we steward freshwater.
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Coalition for Action on Toxics
Strengthening laws for the health of people and the environment.
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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.
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Connecting Women with Scarborough Services
Promoting safety and empowering women and children fleeing domestic violence.
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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.
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DigitalNWT
Strengthening the foundation of community-based digital literacy in the Northwest Territories.
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East Scarborough Storefront
Collaborating to support residents and build community in the inner suburban neighbourhood of Kingston Galloway/Orton Park (KGO).
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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.
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EntrepreNorth
Supporting community-based entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses and livelihoods across Northern Canada.
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Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW)
Advancing progressive public policies and decisions about the future of our most precious resource—water.
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Great Bear Education and Research
Protecting marine and terrestrial wildlife on Canada’s North Pacific Coast.
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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.
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Howe Sound / Atl’ka7tsem Marine Reference Guide
Connecting knowledge and people across governments, First Nations, and marine sectors to build capacity for co-management and improve socio-ecological health in Howe Sound / Atl’ka7tsem.
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Indigenous Food Collective
Working towards Indigenous food self-determination by passing on traditional food practices, strengthening identity, and encouraging youth leadership.
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Inner Activist
Helping changemakers develop strong leadership skills to achieve more effective social change.
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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.
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Marine Plan Partnership for the North Pacific Coast
Advancing marine planning in British Columbia by supporting a collaborative, government-driven, and science-based process.
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Nawalakw Culture Project
Creating a connection with land and language, and creating economic opportunities for the local community.
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Nexwagwezʔan – Dasiqox Tribal Park Initiative
Realizing the Xeni Gwet’in and Yuneŝit’in community vision for Dasiqox Tribal Park.
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Northern Confluence
Working at the confluence of salmon, community, and land use in Northern British Columbia.
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Northern Youth Leadership
Empowering and inspiring a generation of courageous young northern leaders.
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Not Far From the Tree
Inspiring Torontonians to harvest, share, celebrate, and steward the bounty from urban orchards.
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Ontario Indigenous Youth Partnership Project
Supporting youth-led action-focused projects that benefit Indigenous youth and their communities.
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Organizing for Change
Developing more robust, focused, and effective approaches to advancing environmental policy initiatives in British Columbia.
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Our Living Waters
Working to achieve the ambitious goal of all Canada’s waters in good health by 2030.
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Our Voices
Working with Indigenous youth to inspire, engage, and uphold a thriving culture.
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Project Neutral
Transitioning neighbourhoods to carbon neutrality. One neighbourhood at a time.
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Rainforest Solutions Implementation Project
Supporting implementation of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreement Implementation Framework.
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Reel Youth
Empowering youth to produce and distribute films about the issues most important to them.
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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.
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Resource Movement
Bringing together young people with wealth and class privilege to become leaders working towards the equitable distribution of wealth, land, and power.
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Rivers Without Borders Canada
Encouraging conservation-based planning in the transboundary watersheds of southeast Alaska and northwest British Columbia.
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Sacred Seeds Collective
Stewarding a garden space for gathering to share Indigenous knowledges and growing traditional plant foods and medicines in community.
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School for Social Entrepreneurs Ontario
Guiding students from all backgrounds to drive social change.
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Share Reuse Repair Initiative
Bringing community, business, and government together to foster a vibrant sharing, reuse and repair sector.
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Slave River Coalition
Securing, protecting, and restoring the Slave River and its connected waterways.
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summerlunch+
Closing the achievement gap through nutritious lunches and engaging food literacy programming.
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The 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.
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The Existence Project
Connecting marginalized people to their community through the power of storytelling.
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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.
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The Reading Partnership
Focused on raising the literacy levels of children living in Toronto’s Kingston-Galloway/Orton Park community.
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Together Project
Connecting refugee newcomers and Canadians to build stronger, more integrated communities.
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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.