Giving Tuesday is an annual global movement of generosity. This movement was recently highlighted in a Place2Give blog. In that piece, we discussed the many ways that generosity can be expressed, as well as the opportunity to leverage Giving Tuesday to inspire and act on the needs of the community throughout the year. 

The Oxford dictionary defines community as “a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals”. We work with charitable organizations and donors around the globe, representing a diverse and giving community. Whether you support a particular community here in Calgary, or around the world, we are grateful each day that we get to work with the amazing community builders we do.   

Each year, in advance of #GivingTuesday, we publish a Charity List. This charity list is a compilation of organizations supported throughout the year by all of our donors through the Place2Give Foundation and our consulting clients through Karma & Cents. In many cases, these are agencies that we have reviewed and recommended, based on a donor risk tolerance and/or the funding objectives of the donor.

If you are interested in supporting any one of these agencies, please visit the GIVE page at Place2Give where you can specify the charity you’d like to support. In addition, you can choose to support a fund that has outlined how it will be allocating the funds in the coming year. Whatever your community is, we can help you support it. 

2022 Charity Listing


Mental Health

#SickNotWeak (Canada)

CASA (Alberta)

Central Alberta Advocacy Centre (Red Deer)

Calgary Counseling Centre (Calgary)

The Huddle – United Way of Winnipeg (Winnipeg)

Bruce Oake Recovery Centre (Winnipeg)

Anxieties Disorder Assoc. of Manitoba (ADAM) (Winnipeg)

Two-Ten Recovery Centre (Winnipeg)

CMHA – Alberta (Alberta)

FRAYME (Canada)

Kickstand (Alberta)

Kids Help Phone (Canada)

Arts & Culture

Honens (Calgary)

National Music Centre (Canada)

Theatre Calgary (Calgary)

Quest Theatre (Calgary)

Food Security

Leftovers Foundation (Calgary)

Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank (Calgary)

BB4CK (Calgary

The Alex Food Centre (Calgary)

Fresh Routes (non-profit) (Calgary)

Animals

AARCS (Calgary)

Calgary Human Society (Calgary)

CPAWS (Calgary)

Yamnuska Dog Sanctuary (Cochrane)

Dogs with Wings (Edmonton)

Pacific Assistance Dogs Society (PADS) (Canada)

International Development

Charities Aid Foundation – (Canada International)

Villages of Hope (Malawi)

Give Sight Global (US)

Doctors Without Borders (Toronto)

Denistry for All (Guatemala)

UNICEF – Blue Dot program (Ukraine)

World Kitchen (Ukraine)

Post Secondary Education

AUArts (Calgary)

University of Calgary – Cummings School of Medicine (Calgary)

University of Calgary – Werklund Faculty of Education (Calgary)

University of Calgary – Schulich School of Engineering (Calgary)

University of Victoria – Transgender Studies (Victoria)

University of Toronto – Faculty of Kinesiology (Toronto)

University of Calgary – Faculty of Social Work – SHIFT Program (Calgary)

Hebrew University (Jerusalem)

University of Calgary – Haskayne School of Business (Calgary)

University of Alberta (Edmonton)

Healthcare

Stollery Children’s Hospital (Edmonton)

Alberta Children’s Hospital Fndn (Calgary)

Sunshine Foundation (Canada)

The Alex – Dental Health Program (Calgary)

Wellspring Calgary (Calgary)

Environment

Nature Conservancy of Canada (Winnipeg)

Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area (Alberta)

Ghost Bear Institute & Nature Labs (non-profit) (Canada)

Youth & Children

CUPS – One World Childcare Centre & Parenting Program (Calgary)

THORN (US)

carya – Starburst Program (Calgary)

Trellis (Calgary)

Youth Central (Calgary)

Camp BB (Alberta)

Camp Hatikva (BC)

YMCA (Calgary)

Refugee & Immigration

Centre for Newcomers (Calgary)

Windmill Micro-Lending (Canada)

Jewish Family Services – Resettlement Program (Calgary)

Education

Calgary Public Library Foundation (Calgary)

Mindfuel (Calgary)

Intersectional Feminism & Equity/Diversity/Inclusion

Fast & Female (Canmore)

Canadian Women in Sports (Toronto)

Community Links – Airdrie (Airdrie)

Dress For Success (Vancouver)

Skipping Stones (Calgary)

Centre for Sexuality (Calgary)

West Coast LEAF (BC)

Gender-Based Violence

Calgary Women’s Emergency Shelter (Calgary)

Sagesse (Calgary)

Victoria Women’s Transition Housing Society (Victoria)

Entrepreneurship

Momentum (Calgary)

Two-Wheel View (Calgary)

Platform Calgary (Calgary)

Housing

Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (Canada)

Poverty

Charitable Foundation of the Family (Canada)

The Alex (Calgary)

United Jewish Appeal (Canada)

I Can for Kids (Calgary)

Community Foundations

Calgary Foundation (Calgary)

Calgary Jewish Community Foundation (Calgary)

Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)

Rotary Clubs of Calgary Foundation (Calgary)

Philanthropic Foundations of Canada (Canada)

Religion

Chabad Lubavitch of Alberta (Calgary)

Indigenous Programming

Artemis Place (Kelowna)


As with all of our work, this list is unique to the donors we worked with this year. These organizations meet the individual philanthropic objectives of the funders’. Of note, this list is not an endorsement of an organization’s overall transparency or performance. A connection between a donor and a charity is based on the risk tolerance set out by our client.

What we consider when reviewing a charity or project

We assess the following areas in relation to our clients’ overall philanthropic risk tolerance: governance, leadership, competitive landscape, program delivery, community engagement and financials. As practice we only look at the financials if the organization has met the standards in the other performance areas.