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Our skilled advisors from all over Canada bring decades of social and environmental expertise to Small Change Fund and vet thoroughly every project you see on our site, so you can make a donation with the confidence that you will make a difference. Your donation will not only go to the very people you read about on this site, you will also receive a project report from the group once their project has been implemented. Read on to see the full list of projects or click on one of the boxes below to view projects by category.

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Endangered Cultus Fish Logo

Soowahlie First Nation Territory in Chilliwack, BC

RAISED: $60 NEEDED: $2493.88

3 million visitors each year are loving our cherished lake to death – and risk making the Cultus Pygmy Skulpin extinct. Our project inspires young people in our community to get creative about saving our Culuts Lake and our completely unique, native inhabitant.

Keep Christina Lake clean & beautiful

Christina Lake, BC

RAISED: $0 NEEDED: $5000

Christina Lake is located just north of the British Columbia-Washington border. Lush valleys, clear mountain-fed streams, clean lakes and hectares of wilderness create enormous opportunities for recreation and enjoyment in this area. We need your help to mobilise the local community to participate in widespread septic system testing to ensure the continued health of this wonderful clean lake.

Koeye Camp’s Sacred Waters Week

Bella Bella, BC and Koeye River Valley, BC

RAISED: $700 NEEDED: $4300

To recognize the importance of our rivers and oceans, our youth stewardship camp proposes a Sacred Waters Camp for our First Nations youth. This will combine traditional and western perspectives on water to engage youth with modern issues of water security and monitoring, and cultural values around our lifeblood.

Live, Learn and Lead: The Eastwood Food Project

Kitchener, ON

RAISED: $2951 NEEDED: $2049

Hungry kids can’t concentrate in school. Help us feed more students so they can excel in our classrooms, our neighbourhood and in their lives.

Nameo Sipi (Ghost River) Clean Up Project

Fort Albany, On

RAISED: $0 NEEDED: $2498

Nameo Sipi (Ghost River) on Kistachowan (Albany River) receives 500 visitors annually. Many visitors over the years have left physical evidence of their stay in the form of discarded waste. This project will begin an annual "maintenance" program, with Elders and youth, to keep the environment healthy and safe.

P.A.U.S.E. (Production Agricole Urbaine Soutenable et Écologique)

Montréal - Campus Université de Montréal, QC

RAISED: $0 NEEDED: $4893

Notre initiative étudiante entreprend de ramener une partie de nature en ville, en y intégrant de la Production Agricole Urbaine. Ce projet se veut Soutenable et Ecologique. Nous produirons du miel, des champignons et des légumes. Nous voulons saisir cette opportunité pour offrir des ateliers éducatifs d'agriculture aux enfants.

Protect Yukon’s Great Boreal Wilderness

Whitehorse, YT

RAISED: $0 NEEDED: $5000

“Increasingly around the world, large, intact, wilderness is disappearing. They are becoming very, very rare and because of that, they are becoming all the more precious. We are facing an unprecedented crisis on this planet. I believe that we’ve got to leave as much of nature in tact as possible. This is what we need. Large, intact areas as a hedge against our ignorance. To me, the Peel represents that.” – Dr. David Suzuki.

Putting a Face on the Love My Lake Declaration

Ottawa, ON

RAISED: $100 NEEDED: $4900

Only 45 days left to donate! — We all have memories of time spent on or near the water and those memories help to motivate our love for Canada’s waterscapes. Water bodies are an integral part of the Canadian experience. While not necessarily part of everyday life, these places help us connect to and experience nature in many ways. We need your help to raise the voices of the lakes!

River Run: Pollution in Our Water, Poison in Our Bodies

Grassy Narrows, ON

RAISED: $595 NEEDED: $4405

River Run 2012 will raise awareness within Ontario about the continuing affects of industry on the Boreal forest ecosystem and the Grassy Narrows community in Northern Ontario. Community members will travel to Toronto for a week of public awareness-raising events concerning mercury poisoning and clear cutting within the Boreal forest and we need your support.

Student State of Our Rivers Report

Toronto (and surrounding area), ON

RAISED: $0 NEEDED: $5000

Only 43 days left to donate! — This project will publish an inaugural infographic report depicting data collected by over 2,000 students as part of EcoSpark's 2011-12 Changing Currents program (which was part funded by Small Change Fund). Help us now share this great info and encourage future participation.

Watershed Ambassador Program

Red Deer, AB

RAISED: $0 NEEDED: $2000

Through the Watershed Ambassador Program at the Red Deer Watershed Alliance hopes to raise the profile of the watershed, its stewardship groups, stewards, and all those practicing related Beneficial Watershed Management Practices. To do this we will confer ambassadorships and host a monthly speaker/presenter in order to educate and inspire the community to become involved.