Aboriginal Organizations

Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)
First Nation-directed environmental non-profit organisation with charitable status that takes action on climate change, build sustainable communities, protect lands and waters, and conserve biodiversity.

Circle of Life Thunderbird Lodge (WHAKA PIMADIZIIWII PINAYSIIWIGAMIC Inc)
A gathering place for all people, a centre for the meeting of cultures to foster understanding and sharing.

Ka Ni Kanichihk Inc.
Provides a range of culturally based education, training and employment, leadership and community development, and healing and wellness programs and services that are rooted in the restoration and reclamation of cultures.

Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre
A resource centre in Winnipeg that provides culturally relevant preventive and supportive programs and services for Aboriginal families.

Manitoba Urban Native Housing Association

Urban Circle Training Centre Inc.
A community-based, non-profit organization with expertise in pre-employment training for Aboriginal women and men on social assistance.

Urban Shaman Gallery
An aboriginal artist run centre dedicated to meeting the needs of artists by providing a vehicle for artistic expression in all disciplines and at all levels by taking a leadership role in the cultivation of indigenous art.

Arts

Art City
An inter-generational drop-in art studio that offers programming to inner-city residents in the West Broadway area.

Artists Edge
A community-driven non-profit organization for the arts with a mission to offer affordable live/work spaces, studio facilities and support to artists, develop new audiences and ensure that Winnipeg is an ideal location for practicing artists to base their careers.

Ellice Café and Theatre
A non-profit community development initiative of New Life Ministries.

Gas Station Theatre

Graffiti Art Programming Inc.
A not-for-profit community youth art centre, using art as a tool for community, social, economic and individual growth.

MAWA (Mentoring Artists for Women's Art)
Mentoring Artists for Women's Art encourages and supports the intellectual and creative development of women in the visual arts by providing an ongoing forum for education and critical dialogue.

Platform: Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts
A venue for exhibition, production, and education pertaining to all aspects of photo-based media.

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art
A laboratory for research and a nexus for the presentation of art that confronts ideas and issues affecting today's society. The convergence of these strands will celebrate artworks and events in all media, as well as interdisciplinary projects spanning architecture, film, television, photography, sound, and new media.

Video Pool Media Arts Centre
A nonprofit arist-run centre dedicated to independent video, audio and computer integrated multimedia production.

West End Cultural Centre
Non-profit organization that promotes Manitoban, Canadian and international artists by fostering artistic development.

Winnipeg Arts Council, Public Art Program
Develops projects in public spaces, holds workshops and organizes forums and other public events.

Community Economic Development (CED)

Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNET)

CEDTAS (CED Technical Assistance Service)
An effective technical assistance matching service that connects volunteer professionals to a broad array of Community Economic Development (CED) projects.

Local Investment Towards Employment (LITE)
Promotes community economic development by supporting inner-city initiatives in Winnipeg that build capacity and provide jobs.

New Life Ministries
A community church in the heart of the old West End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

SEED Winnipeg Inc. (Support Employment & Economic Development)
A non-profit agency that works to combat poverty and assists in the renewal of Winnipeg's inner city.

Design

Architects Without Borders
Promotes the humanitarian aspects of design while engaging in meaningful real-world partnerships with communities affected by poverty, disaster or pandemic.

Environment

Bishop Grandin Greenway Association
Advocates for the creation, enhancement and conservation of an accessible network of nature areas and public pathways that link and support both human and wildlife communities along Bishop Grandin Blvd.

Climate Change Connection
A hub for information about climate change in Manitoba.

Manitoba Eco-Network
Promotes positive environmental action by connecting people and groups in our communities.

Manitoba Wildlands
Manitoba Wildlands supports establishment of protected areas in Manitoba, with a special focus on our boreal forest regions. It works with Manitoba communities, industry sectors, and environmental organizations and provides information about public processes that affect: Manitoba lands and waters; decisions for use of crown (public) lands and water; and technical information about lands decisions and processes.

Natural Resources Institute
Mission is to create, preserve, communicate and apply interdisciplinary knowledge in areas of resource and environmental management, and thereby contribute to the well-being of the people of Manitoba, Canada and the World.

Resource Conservation Manitoba (RCM)
A non-profit, non-governmental centre for environmental education and applied sustainability.

Save our Seine (S.O.S)
Advocates for the preserve, protection and enhancement of the natural environment & heritage resource of Winnipeg's Seine River.

Food and Agriculture

Harvest Moon Society/Harvest Moon Festival
Mission is to develop a learning centre that works toward strengthening and building linkages between urban and rural areas, empowering communities while creating strategies and infrastructure to sustain community and environment.

Manitoba Food Charter
Aims to increase food security and sustainability of the food systems in Manitoba.

Winnipeg Harvest
Committed to providing food to people who struggle to feed themselves and their families, and to maximizing public awareness of hunger while working towards long-term solutions to hunger and poverty.

Housing and Homelessness

Main Street Project

Manitoba Urban Native Housing Association

Siloam Mission
Provides meals, clothing and couselling services to Winnipeg's poor and homeless community.

Winnipeg Housing and Homelessness Initiative

Media

CKUW

CJUM (UMFM)

Neighbourhood Revitalization

Neighbourhoods Alive!

North End Community Renewal Corporation
Works with community committees to plan and implement development strategies in its goal to revitalize the North End

Spence Neighbourhood Association
Works with the people of Spence to revitalize and renew their community in the areas of health, safety, community economic development, and housing and neighbourhood image.

West Broadway Development Corporation
Committed to environmentally sustainable social and economic development in the West Broadway neighbourhood.

Research

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB)
An independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social and economic justice.

Centre for Sustainable Transportation
Formed to help overcome the barriers to the attainment of sustainable transportation through the provision of well-reasoned and balanced information and analysis.

Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba

Institute for Urban Studies
An independent research arm of the University of Winnipeg that examines inner city, environmental, Aboriginal and community development issues.

Transportation

The Bike Dump
A volunteer-run bicycle collective in Winnipeg.

Bike to the Future
A voluntary, inclusive group of concerned cyclists working to make cycling in Winnipeg a safe, enjoyable, accessible and convenient transportation choice year-round.

Winnipeg Rapid Transit Coalition
The Winnipeg Rapid Transit Coalition's mission is to inform the public and persuade the three levels of government of the critical need to fund and construct an economically viable, socially equitable and ecologically sustainable rapid transit system for Winnipeg.

Youth

Resource Assistance for Youth, Inc. (RAY)
Community and street level association committed to helping youth and young adults find a way back from the street.

Women

Fort Garry Women's Resource Centre
A not-for-profit, feminist organization supporting women to engage in healthy life choices for themselves and their families through innovative and responsive programming and excellence in service.

North End Women's Centre (NEWC)
Provides programs and services to women and their families in the North End since 1984.

North Point Douglas Women's Centre
Mission: "To create opportunities for women in North Point Douglas to develop their potential and to engage fully as citizens in the neighbourhood and in the broader community"

Council of Women of Winnipeg
A non-partisan, non-sectarian network of organizations and individuals of diverse interests networking to pursue work of common interest where the stability of the family and the welfare of the community are concerned.

Women's Enterprise Centre
Provides support from business start-up to sustainability by offering services in three key areas: training, advice and loans for business start-up and growth. This way the Centre can fill the experience and financing gap that faces many women entrepreneurs.

Others

Social Planning Council of Winnipeg
Providing action-oriented leadership in social planning and effecting social policy changes.

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