Diverting waste and building community: Spotlight on Vancouver’s Binners’ Project
At MakeWay, our shared platform is home to over 60 projects based from coast to coast to coast. Initiatives benefit from the support of a mission-aligned community, charitable expertise, and shared resources, so they can focus on the work closest to their heart. Over the autumn, we’ve been sitting down with our shared platform projects […]
Inuit youth build self esteem and confidence through outdoor adventure: spotlight on Ayalik Project
At MakeWay, our shared platform is home to over 60 projects based from coast to coast to coast. Initiatives benefit from the support of a mission-aligned community, charitable expertise, and shared resources, so they can focus on the work closest to their heart. Over the next few months, we’re sitting down with our shared platform […]
Shared platform project spotlight: Western Arctic Youth Collective
At MakeWay, our shared platform is home to over 60 projects based from coast to coast to coast. Initiatives benefit from the support of a mission-aligned community, charitable expertise, and shared resources, so they can focus on the work closest to their heart. Over the next few months, we’re sitting down with our shared platform […]
Shared platform project spotlight: Project Neutral
Many grassroots and community-based initiatives struggle to drive real-world change while managing the demands of a stand alone charity. And so, MakeWay launched the shared platform model in Canada, one of the first of its kind. It takes a lot of hard work to create positive and lasting change. The precious time and energy available to […]
Cohort X forges a new approach to leadership
Six community leaders embodying a different paradigm of leading in the pursuit of climate and gender justice. This is the vision of Cohort X, a constellation of six community leaders coming together over the next nine months to reflect, engage, and learn from one another. The cohort will pursue a peer learning model, with support […]
Building trust, growing together: an update from UpSocial Canada
Earlier this summer, we heard from Geraldine Cahill, Director of UpSocial Canada, about the initiative’s work to collectively look after Toronto-based community organizations, and how that work has been shaped by COVID-19. As mid-September looms around the corner, she gives us an update on where UpSocial is at. I’d be lying if I said I’ve […]
Indigenous Response in the Canadian Arctic: Investing in culture and communities
Across the globe, we have all been forced to make changes in our lives, to pause and reflect. Many plagues have passed the earth, yet the COVID-19 pandemic is the first experienced by our generation, on such a grand scale. For inhabitants of the Canadian arctic, the health crisis has also created economic, social, and […]
UpSocial Canada’s Geraldine Cahill talks jumping in while locking down
Remember March 1, 2020? The world felt very different then. On that day, we officially launched our UpSocial Canada Caring Communities Challenge, extending an invitation to Toronto-based community organizations to join us in exploring how we might collectively look after each other better in the places where we are. In defining what we meant by […]
Tides Canada is now MakeWay!
Today, we announce that Tides Canada has changed its name to MakeWay. A quiet leader in environmental and social justice philanthropy in Canada for the last 20 years, the new MakeWay name reflects the momentum of change that this organization stands for.
In it for the long haul: Tides Canada’s commitment to enabling community-led transformation in the North
This letter, written by Tides Canada Northern Canada Program Lead Steve Ellis, was originally published in NNSL media as a letter to the editor. The original published letter can be found here. The publisher of NNSL Media lobbed me a bit of a softball in his article “Krause talk buries obvious conclusion” (Yellowknifer, Wednesday, […]
