Last weekend the Durham Community Action Group, along with the Durham ACES Association, held another food distribution service for the Black community. This time they handed out food to deserving community members at Club Carib in Oshawa. They attracted about 125 families who got the opportunity to obtain high quality food such as three different […]
Senior trade unionist Chris Campbell wants a “fair portion’’ to go to those who are traditionally marginalized By Lincoln DePradine More government money is being invested in programs to attract new and younger workers into choosing construction and skilled trades as their professions. The government’s financial investments, motivated by a need to replace retiring […]
Last week, Revive Superfoods announced their plan to donate over 100,000 meals to those in need by launching their Buy A Meal, Give A Meal initiative, with the support of Beam Impact. Revive Superfoods offers a wide variety of products that are healthy and affordable and ready in minutes. How Buy A Meal, Give […]
Dubow, who fled war in Somalia as a child, is the first Black person on city council in over 150 years. A Victoria city councillor has been recognized as a “noteworthy historical figure” by Canadian Heritage as part of the federal department’s celebration of Black History Month. Sharmarke Dubow, the first Black councillor for the […]
Adriana Jackson runs a small, part-time business and donates to local groups. It was the spring of 2020. A global pandemic had just been declared; schools were closed, and nine-year-old Adriana Jackson was bored. So she started a small online business, selling accessories such as bows, headbands and scrunchies. Adriana also gives credit to both […]
TD Canada Trust, as part of the 2021 TD Ready Challenge, has awarded $1m to Tech Spark Canada, and $750,000.00 to The Reading Partnership. This is part of a larger TD funding effort that will distribute $10M to 15 non-profit and charitable organizations in Canada and the U.S. These grants were awarded to organizations that […]
The organization offers tutoring for Math, English, French and Coding; it also offers sports camps during school breaks and some cultural activities such as steelpan and costume design/building. It also conducts workshops about issues that affect our youth such as mental health, financial literacy, job preparedness and civic engagement.
Collaborative effort with Poverty Reduction, Community Action Durham ACES is a group of BIPOC youth with lived experience of gun violence. The organization was started in honour of our fallen soldier, ‘ACE’. The collective was very active in sports, music and community engagement and “wanted to keep his [ACE’s] light shining by giving back to […]
A Calgary organization that delivers culturally appropriate food hampers to mostly African newcomers is struggling to feed over 600 families on its wait-list — and that number is expected to continue growing. The program at Umoja Community Mosaic, which provides and delivers food twice monthly, was created when COVID-19 hit Canada in March 2020. […]
Veteran musician/hip hop artist Choclair (born Kareem Blake) will be leading a “A Holiday Winter Drive” to collect donations to help provide assistance to people in need, to provide meals to the hungry, and to support the mentally ill. The winter drive is fronted by “Made To Move Mountains Outreach”, an organization which was the […]
By Lincoln DePradine Jamaica-born Al Ramsay, hired by TD Bank in 2005 and a member of its “wealth leadership team’’, has been widely recognized for his outreach efforts to traditionally marginalized communities, including Canadians of African descent. However, Ramsay believes one of his greatest accomplishments has been his role in TD’s recent launch of a […]
