Community Investments 2025-26
United Way East Ontario invests our available resources in smart, strategic ways to move the needle for the most vulnerable people in our communities. Our expert volunteers evaluate and make recommendations to fund programs, collaborations and initiatives that create measurable, lasting change.
Below are our investments for July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026, divided into the three focus areas of our activities that fulfill our mission, vision and promise. These investments are determined by our annual Call for Proposals process, unless otherwise indicated.
Every kid should have the basic building blocks to stay on track to succeed—in school, and in life.
- PROGRAM
- AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION
- INVESTMENTS (CAD $)
- Ending Homelessness in Ottawa Using a Collective Impact Approach
- Alliance to End Homelessness
- $55,000.00
- BGCRC After School Programming
- BGC Renfrew County
- $20,000.00
- Big Brothers Big Sisters for Prescott and Russell
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cornwall
- $25,000.00
- Mentoring Matters After School in Lanark County
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lanark County
- $23,870.00
- One-to-One Youth Mentoring
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ottawa
- $137,000.00
- Critical Hours 2025-26
- Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa
- $320,000.00
- Community House Children & Youth Programs
- Britannia Woods Community House
- $96,344.00
- Community House Collective
- Britannia Woods Community House
- $24,000.00
- School Readiness Program School's Cool 2025
- Canadian Mothercraft of Ottawa-Carleton
- $73,000.00
- Vita Youth Program
- Carleton Place and District Youth Centre
- $25,000.00
- SWAG+
- Carlington Community Health Centre
- $47,551.00
- BOOSTER
- Carlington Community Health Centre
- $23,000.00
- Building Skills, Empowering Lives
- Christie Lake Kids
- $27,000.00
- Youth Emergency Beds
- Columbus House (Pembroke) Inc.
- $29,000.00
- CRC Youth Programs
- Community Resource Centre Killaloe
- $25,000.00
- Housing First for Youth
- Cornerstone Landing Youth Services
- $29,000.00
- Maison de la famille-123, Bébé s'épanouit
- Groupe Action
- $12,000.00
- Youth Matters: Youth Supportive Housing
- John Howard Society of Ottawa
- $60,000.00
- Roots for Community Resilience
- Lanark Highlands Youth Centre
- $8,100.00
- Critical Connections
- Mississippi Mills Youth Centre
- $30,000.00
- OrKidstra - Empower Kids, Build Community (2025-26)
- OrKidstra – Sistema Ottawa
- $20,000.00
- After School Homework Club
- Osgoode Youth Association
- $17,000.00
- Supporting Parents/Caregivers of Children to age 25 with MHSUA
- Parents’ Lifelines of Eastern Ontario
- $80,000.00
- Programmes pour individus autistes
- Regroupement Autisme de Prescott-Russell
- $15,000.00
- Success for Children of Young Parents
- St. Mary's Home
- $65,000.00
- Camp Pride: Investing in a Good Life for Kids from 2SLGBTQ+ Communities
- Ten Oaks Project
- $20,000.00
- Perth Youth Centre
- YAK Youth Services
- $23,000.00
- Transitional Housing for Homeless Youth
- Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa
- $80,000.00
- Rural Ottawa Youth Mental Health Program (ROYMHP)
- Nepean Rideau Osgoode Community Resource Centre
- $50,000.00
A job, a purpose, a sense of belonging—we can ensure more people in our communities achieve financial independence and stability.
- PROGRAM
- AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION
- INVESTMENTS (CAD $)
- Soutien pour prévenir ou résoudre des crise financières ou fiscales
- Centre d'éducation financière EBO
- $70,000.00
- Capacity building and research on Financial Literacy in Ottawa
- Centre d'éducation financière EBO
- $22,000.00
- Operationalizing Social Impact Purchasing for Community Wealth
- Centre for Social Enterprise Development
- $50,000.00
- Appui à la recherche d'emploi pour nouveaux arrivants francophones (ARENAF)
- Conseil Économique et Social d'Ottawa Carleton (CESOC)
- $45,000.00
- Scaling post graduate sewing employment opportunities for newcomer women in Ottawa
- EcoEquitable
- $30,000.00
- Arches Supportive Employment Program
- John Howard Society of Ottawa
- $83,000.00
- Job Retention and Career Progression
- LiveWorkPlay
- $20,000.00
- FoodWorks Social Enterprise Employment for People With Disabilities
- Operation Come Home
- $19,000.00
- Career Access for Newcomers
- World Skills Employment Centre
- $110,000.00
Ensuring our communities are great for everyone by improving equity, connections and overall well-being.
- PROGRAM
- AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION
- INVESTMENTS (CAD $)
- Newcomer Connect: Social integration for asylum claimants through jobs, housing, and community connections
- YMCA of the National Capital Region
- $35,000.00
- Enabling Seniors Through Choice
- ABLE2: Support for People with Disabilities
- $55,000.00
- Bridging the Gaps
- Amethyst Centre Ottawa
- $40,000.00
- Basse-Ville, Notre Chez-Nous : Focus Jeunesse
- Centre de ressources communautaires de la Basse-Ville
- $35,000.00
- Making Voices Count
- City for All Women Initiative (CAWI)
- $35,000.00
- Mental Health Promotion
- CMHA Champlain East
- $40,000.00
- CRC Good Food Project
- Community Resource Centre Killaloe
- $15,000.00
- Social/Recreation Program for Caregivers and People Living with Dementia
- Dementia Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County
- $25,000.00
- 24/7 Ottawa Distress Service
- Distress Centre of Ottawa and Region
- $90,000.00
- Mental Health Counselling
- Family Services Ottawa (FSO)
- $135,000.00
- Around The Rainbow
- Family Services Ottawa (FSO)
- $43,000.00
- Outreach Attendant Care
- Groupe Action
- $13,000.00
- Grief and Bereavement Services
- Hospice Renfrew
- $22,000.00
- Subsidized Multi-Session Mental Health for Ottawans
- Jewish Family Services of Ottawa
- $70,000.00
- Crisis Support Services
- John Howard Society of Ottawa
- $48,000.00
- Lanark County Interval House Second Stage Housing Application
- Lanark County Interval House
- $20,000.00
- Culture Based Interventions for Indigenous Women Living with AUD and SUD
- Minwaashin Lodge
- $65,000.00
- Supporting Community Wellness & Individual Basic Needs
- North Renfrew Family Services
- $25,000.00
- Widening the Window of Tolerance
- Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre
- $50,000.00
- PMFRC Portable Community Sensory Space
- Petawawa Military Family Resource Centre
- $10,000.00
- Recovery Through Community Outreach 2025
- Psychiatric Survivors of Ottawa
- $64,000.00
- Gifts In-Kind Program
- Rideau Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre
- $60,000.00
- Mental Health Support for Vulnerable Communities
- Robbie Dean Family Counselling Program
- $35,000.00
- Supports for Vulnerable Rural Seniors
- Rural Ottawa South Support Services (ROSSS)
- $50,000.00
- Black Mental Health Program
- Somerset West Community Health Centre
- $50,000.00
- Yet Keen Seniors Outreach Program
- Somerset West Community Health Centre
- $23,000.00
- Equity for Us: Thriving Together
- Somerset West Community Health Centre
- $30,000.00
- Creating the Change We Want
- South East Ottawa Community Health Centre
- $75,000.00
- TAO Tel-Aide toujours présent et en appui à la population francophone d'Ottawa et l'Est ontarien
- Tel-Aide Outaouais
- $40,000.00
- Building Resilience
- The Elizabeth Fry Society of Ottawa
- $70,000.00
- Adult Day Program
- The Good Companions
- $45,000.00
- Seniors' Centre Without Walls
- The Good Companions
- $53,000.00
- Mise en œuvre d’une équipe francophone commune spécialisée en santé mentale
- Valoris pour enfants et adultes de Prescott-Russell
- $9,658.00
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end youth homelessness.
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