2010 News and Calendar / Actualités et Calendrier 2010
Non-Profit Performance Evaluation
2006 Profiles in Excellence
Profiles of the 2006 Donner Award finalists, by category:
- Alternative Education
- Child Care Services
- Counselling Services
- Crisis Intervention
- Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse
- Provision of Basic Necessities
- Services for People with Disabilities
- Services for Seniors
- Traditional Education
Longer descriptions can be found in the 2006 Donner Awards Profiles in Excellence booklet. Download the 2006 Profiles in Excellence publication [PDF] - note that this booklet is almost 6MB in size.
ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION
Continuing On In Education, Belleville, ON
Sandra Burgess, Instructor / Administrator
Tel: 613-962-8350Continuing On In Education helps individuals over the age of 21, as well as adults with physical and/or developmental challenges, achieve literacy and numeracy. With the new skills and esteem they gain, students can graduate into new ventures, including further training and employment.
Sarnia Lambton Rebound, Sarnia, ON
Mary Ellen Warren, Executive Director
Tel: 519-344-2841Sarnia-Lambton Rebound, a volunteer-based organization working young people at risk, is being recognized for its P.A.S.S. (Positive Alternative to School Suspension) program. By providing this alternative program, students do not fall behind in their studies and re-enter school in a more positive manner.
Teen-Aid (Southwest) Inc, Swift Current, SK
Dorothy Wilchynski, Rec. Secretary
Tel: 306-733-4256Teen-Aid provides chastity-based sexuality resource programs for students from grades 6-12. The organization also assists adults in their role as sexuality educators by hosting parent workshops.
CHILD CARE SERVICES
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON
Darlene Evans, Executive Director
Tel: 705-743-6100Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peterborough is the only child and youth-serving organization in their region that provides mentoring and activity programs. for their community. Over the past year they partnered with local school boards and business on an in-school mentoring program in 29 different schools.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of York, Newmarket, ON
Moragh Wolfe, Executive Director
Tel: 905-895-0289Big Brothers Big Sisters of York's mission is to provide a positive role model and adult friendship to children in their region through the Big Brother, Big Sister and Mentoring Programs.
The Children's Garden Nursery School, Pembroke, ON
Benita Richardson, Director
Tel: 613-735-2259The Children’s Garden Nursery School provides affordable high quality child care. Their unique multi-sensory Snoezelen room, for children with special needs between the ages of 0-12 years, provides an opportunity for children of various abilities to attend the school.
COUNSELLING SERVICES
Hospice Dufferin, Orangeville, ON
Maureen Riedler, Executive Director
Tel: 519-942-3313Hospice Dufferin connects their trained palliative care volunteers with individuals and families dealing with the stress of coping with a life-threatening illness. Their Volunteer Visiting program provides relief for families charged with the primary care of dying loved ones by enabling them to take a break.
Hospice of Waterloo Region, Waterloo, ON
Irena Borg, Executive Director
Tel: 519-743-4114The Hospice of Waterloo Region provides palliative care to those facing terminal illness. Its core service is to train and prepare client support volunteers, and match them with individuals with any terminal illness.
Sudbury Action Centre for Youth, Sudbury, ON
Marlene Gorman, Executive Director
Tel: 705-673-4396The Sudbury Action Centre for Youth (SACY) helps young offenders find gainful employment and assume a productive life within the community. It is as much a drop-in centre as an employment service, offering job readiness counselling and basic life skills.
YMCA of Sarnia Lambton, Sarnia, ON
Jenny Mott, General Manager, Communications & Development
Tel: 519-336-9622 x 228The YMCA of Sarnia Lambton’s Learning, Earning, & Parenting (LEAP) program is an information, referral and support service for young parents between the ages of 16 and 21 years. LEAP helps young parents earn a grade 12 education, find and maintain employment, and enhance their parenting skills.
CRISIS INTERVENTION
Calgary Pregnancy Care Centre, Calgary, AB
Wendy Lowe, Executive Director
Tel: 403-269-3111The Calgary Pregnancy Care Centre offers compassionate support and assistance to anyone facing an unplanned pregnancy or experiencing post abortion stress.
Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of BC, Vancouver, BC
Ian Ross, Executive Director
Tel: 604-872-1811 x 224Volunteers with the Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre provide the front-line delivery of services, as crisis intervention operators at a 24-hour call centre and as facilitators in high school presentations. The Centre recently launched a one-of-a-kind web-based hotline (http://www.youthinbc.com/).
London Crisis Pregnancy Centre, London, ON
Lori Bethel, Executive Director
Tel: 519-432-2073The London Crisis Pregnancy Centre offers a safe, non-judgmental environment to help clients in distress because of an unplanned pregnancy. Their mandate is to educate as a means of empowering individuals so that they do not make decisions they might regret in the future.
Sarnia-Lambton Rebound, Sarnia, ON
Mary Ellen Warren, Executive Director
Tel: 519-344-2841Sarnia-Lambton Rebound is the only organization in its community used by police as a youth court diversion program as per the 1984 Young Offenders Act. Police records demonstrate that of the youth who participate in the program, 90% have no further contact with the police even five years after the program.
PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Fresh Start Recovery Centre, Calgary, AB
Stacey Petersen, Executive Director
Tel: 403-387-6266Fresh Start Recovery Centre provides long-term relapse prevention opportunities for those seeking to recover from addiction and alcholoism.
InnerVisions Recovery Society, Port Coquitlam, BC
Cory Wint, Director
Tel: 604-468-2032InnerVisions Recovery Society provides guidance, support, and care for people affected by addiction. InnerVisions caters to the client who has “fallen through the cracks”: the individual who has failed short-term treatment, or recently diagnosed HIV-positive, or who needs more than outpatient care.
Sudbury Action Centre for Youth, Sudbury, ON
Marlene Gorman, Executive Director
Tel: 705-673-4396The Sudbury Action Centre for Youth (SACY) offers an open door to a vulnerable, hard-to-serve population, providing support and referrals for a variety of services to assist with addiction, health concerns, and legal matters. SACY is being recognized for The POINT Needle Exchange Program.
PROVISION OF BASIC NECESSITIES
Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society, Calgary, AB
Christopher Harris, Chief Executive Officer
Tel: 403-253-2059The Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society is the largest provider of emergency food resources in the city, with volunteers taking care of more than 90 percent of their daily operations.
Habitat for Humanity Halton, Burlington, ON
Kathrin Delutis, Executive Director
Tel: 905-637-4446Habitat for Humanity Halton's mission is to mobilize volunteers and community partners to build affordable housing and promote home ownership as a means of breaking the cycle of poverty.
Inner City Home of Sudbury, Sudbury, ON
Mary Ali, Executive Director
Tel: 705-675-7550Inner City Home of Sudbury offers a place for those in crisis to find someone to listen to their story, and find acceptance, warmth and comfort during difficult times.
SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Alzheimer Society of Sault Ste Marie and Algoma District, Sault Ste Marie, ON
Carolyn Cybulski, Executive Director
Tel: 705-942-2195The Alzheimer Society of Sault Ste Marie and Algoma District's mission is to improve the quality of life for people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in their district and to provide support for caregivers.
Maidstone Group Home Society Inc, Maidstone, SK
Celia Brendle, Administrator
Tel: 306-893-4858The Maidstone Group Home Society provides services for the mentally and physically disabled by means of a group home residence and separate day program.
Vernon Disability Resource Centre, Vernon, BC
Laura Hockman, Executive Director
Tel: 250-545-9292The Vernon Disability Resource Centre's mission is to create sustainable community links, to work for societal change and to remove barriers so that people with disabilities have the opportunity to realize their full potential.
SERVICES FOR SENIORS
Alzheimer Society of Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay, ON
Kim Morgan, Executive Director
Tel: 807-345-9556The Alzheimer Society of Thunder Bay works with people who are troubled and often depressed that they may be experiencing Alzheimer disease. The Society provides counselling, support, and education, and other services such as educational presentations and an Alzheimer Wandering Registry.
Community and Primary Health Care (formerly VON Lanark, Leeds & Grenville), Brockville, ON
Ruth Kitson, Executive Director
Tel: 613-342-3693 / 613-340-3314Community and Primary Health Care provides primary health care and community services to all ages, including seniors who require assistance to remain safely in their homes.
Community Living Campbellford/Brighton, Campbellford, ON
Chris Grayson, Executive Director
Tel: 705-653-1821 x22Community Living Campbellford/Brighton's Club 55 seniors drop-in program offers activities and support for individuals 55 and older with an intellectual disability.
Hospice Greater Saint John (formerly Hospice Saint John & Sussex), Saint John, NB
Sandy Johnson, Executive Director
Tel: 506-632-5723Hospice Saint John & Sussex provides free non-medical programs and services to people living with a terminal illness and families coping with loss. The core staff of three and over 170 volunteers help people live fully to the very end of life, with dignity and in comfort.
TRADITIONAL EDUCATION
Cornwall Alternative School, Regina, SK
Eunice Cameron, Principal/CEO
Tel: 306-522-0044Cornwall Alternative School (CAS) provides an alternative learning environment for students not attending school in the traditional system. A full 82% of CAS students are successfully reintegrated into the regular school system – well above the success rate of “street kids” not in this program.
Penticton Community Christian School Society, Penticton, BC
Karl Boehmer, Principal
Tel: 250-493-5233The Penticton Community Christian School provides parents with the opportunity to be involved in their child’s education, by volunteering in the classrooms, the offices, on a committee or the board.
Trenton Christian School Society, Trenton, ON
Elizabeth van Es, Bookkeeper
Tel: 613-392-3600The Trenton Christian School's goal is to provide each child with a level of learning that caters to the three dimensions of a well-rounded person: the mind, the body and the spirit.
