BRITISH COLUMBIA
PORT ALBERNI
Bread of Life
This mortgage supports a soup kitchen and store for the disadvantaged in Port Alberni area. More Info
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
YELLOWKNIFE
Yellowknife Glass Recyclers Co-operative
This worker cooperative has developed a method of recycling glass containers into unique glass giftware. CAIC's loan is part of a financing package that this innovative co-op is putting together to develop marketing materials, expand their website and grow their operations. Website: www.ygr.coop
ALBERTA
EDMONTON
Bishop Savryn Out-of-School Care Society
This group provides a daycare for low-income and middle class parents in the inner city of Edmonton.
Edmonton City Centre Church Corporation
This mortgage supports one of E4C's housing initiatives that provides long-term stable housing for 10 women with a history of ongoing mental illness and low income. Website: www.e4calberta.org
Inn-Roads Housing Co-op
Provides cooperative housing to low-income families.
Website: www.innroads.ca
PAAFE (Prostitution Awareness Action Foundation of Edmonton)
This organization provides counseling & support to those seeking alternatives to prostitution. Website: www.paafe.org
People in Need Shelter Society
This project provides shelter and services to psychiatric and mentally challenged clients. Website: www.icaf.ca/epinss.html
ONTARIO
WINDSOR
Well-Come Centre for Human Potential
This centre provides counseling and activities for sole support mothers and their children. Additional financing to purchase a new building was advanced in August. Website:www.well-comecentre.ca
LONDON
LifeSpin - Margaret's Haven Community Housing
This project provides housing for ex-psychiatric patients.
Website: www.execulink.com/~life
GUELPH, ON
Planet Bean Cooperative
This worker co-operative retails and wholesales gourmet fair trade organic coffee and other fair trade products in the Ontario market. CAIC's loan enabled the co-op to purchase a new & larger roaster.
Website: www.planetbeancoffee.com
KITCHENER
The Working Centre
This resource centre provides working opportunities for hundreds of individuals normally excluded from the labour market to participate in a community kitchen, a furniture recycling shop and laundry project and a number of other community-based initiatives.
Website: www.theworkingcentre.org
HAMILTON
The Good Shepherd Centre
This mortgage supports an integrated Street Youth Centre in the downtown core of Hamilton. Website: www.goodshepherdcentres.ca
L'Arche Hamilton/The Ark
This mortgage supports a home and day programs for people who have developmental disabilities. Website: www.larcheham.ca
Neighbour-to-Neighbour Centre
Provides emergency food, employment counseling and self-help initiatives for the unemployed in the area. Website: n2ncentre.com
TORONTO
Bloor Information and Life Skills Centre
This organization provides social services (settlement, employment, domestic abuse) to non-English speaking women in Toronto's downtown core.
Website: www.bloorinfo.org
Christie Ossington Community Centre
CAIC has provided a mortgage to this group that provides services ranging from children's programs to homelessness initiatives.
Website: www.conccommunity.org
Cooperative Radiophonique de Toronto
This co-operative radio station provides french language programming to the Greater Toronto area. Website: www.choqfm.ca/laradio/crt
Margaret Laurence Housing Co-operative
This innovative cooperative housing project made use of space in their existing building to create 16 housing units.
Mater Dei
Mater Dei is a woman's non-medical residential therapeutic program which provides support to women with substance, psychiatric & family issues.
Website: www.carmelinashome.com
Redwood Shelter
This project provides a safe haven for abused women and their children in the Parkdale area of Toronto. Website: www.theredwood.com
St. Clare Multifaith Housing Society
A former doctor's office building has been converted into transitional housing for the homeless. Website: www.stclares.ca
St. John the Compassionate Mission
This street mission reaches out to the urban poor providing meals and spiritual comfort. Website: www.stjohnsbakery.com
Skills for Change
This service agency provides learning and training opportunities for immigrants and refugees so that they can participate in the workplace and wider community. Website: www.skillsforchange.org
BARRIE
Elizabeth Fry Society
This mortgage provides shelter & programs for homeless women & former penal inmates. Website: www.elizabethfrysociety.com/public
La Siembra This group is a fair trade cooperative committed to educating consumers in Canada and supporting third world producers. Ottawa Community Loan Fund This loan fund provides access to capital for marginalized individuals in the Ottawa area. Website: www.oclf.orgOTTAWA, ON
Website: www.cocoacamino.comQUEBEC
MONTREAL
Alternatives
An NGO working on social justice initiatives both in the third world and in Canada. CAIC has provided a mortgage to enable this group to house their project. Website: www.alternatives.ca
Montreal Community Loan Association/
Association Communautaire D'émprunt de Montréal
This association makes loans to individuals and groups starting new businesses in Montreal's economically depressed neighbourhoods.
Website: www.acemcreditcommunautaire.qc.ca
QUEBEC CITY
Quebec City Community Loan Fund/
Fonds D'Emprunt Èconomique Communautaire Quèbec
This association makes loans to individuals and groups starting new businesses in Quebec's city centre. More Info
TROIS RIVIÈRES
Fonds Communautaire D'Emprunt de la Mauricie
This community loan fund provides loans to individuals starting or expanding a business enterprise that do not have access to traditional credit.
Website: www.fcem.qc.ca
NEW BRUNSWICK
SAINT JOHN
St. John Community Loan Fund
This loan fund provides access to capital for individuals wishing to start or expand a business. Website: www.loanfund.ca
NOVA SCOTIA
HALIFAX
St. Andrew's United Church
This congregation renovated their church hall so that it could be used as a community centre for people with mental health issues.
Website: standrewshfx.ca
YWCA Halifax
This project provides wellness programs for women along with affordable daycare. Website: www.ywcahalifax.com
SYDNEY
Cape Breton Labourer's Development Company
This project has a two-fold purpose. It provides low cost housing (rent-to-own) as well as employment for its members (building the houses).
View a map of our members' locations.