COVID-19 Investments
One of the core strategies we use to tackle the greatest challenges in our communities, during crises and normal times, is financial investment.

Our March 2020-March 2021 investments addressed the following:
- Help for seniors – ensure that while vulnerable people are isolated, they are also supported.
- Basic needs – ensure people have access to life’s essentials, such as food.
- Capacity for community services – ensure frontline agencies can continue to do their vital local work
- Mental health support – enable crisis lines and system navigation services during this time of heightened stress.
- Support for volunteers – there are amazing people rallying to support others—they need our help too.
Our April 2021 onward investments aim to address the following:
- Help for seniors and caregivers – supporting isolated seniors who are vulnerable and at risk of developing severe illness if they contract the virus.
- Basic needs – ensure people have access to life’s essentials, such as food.
- Capacity for the community sector – ensuring frontline services can continue their vital work.
- Mental health and crisis supports – enabling vital crisis lines and system navigation services that benefit everyone.
- Addressing learning loss for vulnerable children and youth – ensuring kids get back on track with their education.
- An equitable economic recovery – building a more prosperous future for people who have been sidelined by the pandemic.
Local Love in a Global Crisis
Invested from March 2020 to March 31, 2021
- AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION
- FUNDING AMOUNT (CAD $)
- Active Jewish Adults 50+
- $15,000.00
- Carebridge Community Support (also known as Mills Community Support Corporation)
- $1,500.00
- Carebridge Community Support (also known as Mills Community Support Corporation)
- $1,000.00
- Dress for Success Ottawa National Capital Region
- $30,000.00
- EcoEquitable
- $35,000.00
- Hastings and Prince Edward Learning Foundation
- $5,511.87
- Hospice Care Ottawa
- $24,000.00
- Immigrant Women Services Ottawa (IWSO)
- $63,000.00
- Jewish Family Services of Ottawa
- $20,000.00
- Lanark County Food Bank
- $1,000.00
- Lanark County Interval House and Community Support
- $4,728.00
- Lanark County Interval House and Community Support
- $1,585.50
- Lanark County Interval House and Community Support
- $1,751.39
- Lanark County Youth Centre Coalition
- $5,000.00
- Lowertown Community Resource Centre
- $50,000.00
- Nepean, Rideau and Osgoode Community Resource Centre (NROCRC)
- $56,516.00
- Nepean, Rideau and Osgoode Community Resource Centre (NROCRC)
- $14,729.00
- North Renfrew Family Services
- $17,000.00
- Olde Forge Community Resource Centre
- $30,000.00
- Ottawa Community Housing Foundation for Healthy Communities (OCH Foundation)
- $75,000.00
- Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital (Lanark County Mental Health)
- $3,000.00
- Phoenix Centre for Children and Families
- $20,000.00
- Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre
- $1,360.00
- Rideauwood Addiction and Family Services
- $2,380.00
- Robbie Dean Family Counselling Centre
- $1,585.50
- Somerset West Community Health Centre
- $75,000.00
- South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre
- $50,000.00
- The Council on Aging of Ottawa
- $8,000.00
- The Glebe Centre Inc.
- $10,605.00
- The Grind Pembroke
- $10,000.00
- Vanier Community Service Centre (CSC Vanier)
- $20,000.00
- Volunteer Ottawa
- $24,692.00
- YAK Youth Services
- $20,000.00
This information was last updated on May 19, 2021.
Local Love in a Global Crisis
Invested in July 2021
- AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION
- PROGRAM
- FUNDING AMOUNT (CAD $)
- Bruce House
- Food and Essential Needs Program
- $45,000.00
- Community Resource Centre (Killaloe) Inc.
- Rural Renfrew County - Basic Needs Support
- $35,000.00
- Mississippi Mills Youth Centre
- Food and Nutrition Security Project
- $82,750.00
- Social Planning Council of Ottawa
- Hit the Streets
- $40,000.00
- Stepstone House
- Basic Needs for Residents of Stepstone House
- $20,000.00
- Victim Services of Renfrew County
- Local Love in a Global Crisis
- $40,000.00
- Dementia Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County
- Stay Safe Program
- $50,000.00
- Rural Ottawa South Support Services (ROSSS)
- Supporting essential needs of seniors at home during summer
- $50,000.00
- Social Planning Council of Ottawa
- Reducing Ethnocultural Seniors Isolation
- $45,000.00
- The Good Companions
- Connecting and supporting seniors (Regional Seniors' Centre Without Walls)
- $100,000.00
- Somerset West Community Health Centre
- Supports for Ethnocultural Seniors
- $30,000.00
- Alliance to End Homelessness
- System-Wide Coordination
- $25,000.00
- North Renfrew Family Services Inc.
- Couselling Services For the Vulnerable Population of North Renfrew
- $22,100.00
- Interval House of Ottawa
- Unsafe at Home Ottawa
- $25,000.00
- Centretown Community Health Centre
- Counselling Connect: Ottawa Health Team - Equipe Santé Ottawa MHA response
- $200,000.00
- The Phoenix Centre for Children & Families
- The Champlain Region Virtual Care Project... Mitigating Digital Inequity
- $85,000.00
- Ottawa Black Mental Health Coalition
- Community of Practice for Ottawa Black Mental Health Coalition
- $50,000.00
- Minwaashin Lodge
- Supporting Indigenous Women and Children Fleeing Violence in the Ottawa Urban Indigenous Communities
- $70,000.00
- Distress Centre of Ottawa and Region
- Increasing Capacity of Online Crisis Services
- $25,000.00
- Jewish Family Services of Ottawa
- Mental Health Counselling Supports for Diverse Communities Throughout Eastern Ontario
- $85,000.00
- Somerset West Community Health Centre
- ACB COVID Mental Health Response Team
- $70,000.00
- Robbie Dean Family Counselling Centre
- Mashkawizii Manido – Mental Health & Addiction Program
- $31,000.00
- Ottawa Network for Education
- step for Youth in Schools and Community Coalition
- $50,000.00
- Maison Interlude House Inc.
- Femmes sans Toît
- $60,000.00
- Centre le Cap
- Santé mentale et dépendances
- $50,000.00
- Women's Sexual Assault Centre of Renfrew County
- You Are Not Alone Project
- $19,250.00
- Regroupement Autisme Prescott-Russell
- Du répit au coeur d'une pandémie pour les personnes autistes
- $15,000.00
- Rideauwood Addiction and Family Services
- Rideauwood Addiction and Family Services
- $70,000.00
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ottawa
- Mentoring-in-School Virtual Expansion
- $35,000.00
- Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa
- COVID Slide - Augmented Homework Club
- $55,000.00
- Family and Children's Services of Renfrew County
- FCSRC Education Support Program
- $21,050.00
- Lanark Highlands Youth
- Lanark County Youth Centre Coalition Learning Loss Program
- $72,000.00
- Ottawa Coalition of Community Houses
- Community House Child & Youth Learning Supports
- $88,000.00
- Dress for Success Ottawa National Capital Region
- Dressing Women for Success from the Inside Out
- $32,032.15
- John Howard Society of Ottawa
- Share Forward /Mino Miikanan (good pathways) Mentorship
- $64,000.00
- Social Planning Council of Ottawa
- Digital Equity
- $65,000.00
This information was last updated on July 15, 2021.
New Horizons for Seniors Program, HelpAge Canada, and Local Love in a Global Crisis
Invested on May 14, 2020
- AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION
- FUNDING AMOUNT (CAD $)
- ABLE2 (formerly Citizen Advocacy Ottawa)
- $25,000.00
- Carebridge Community Support (also known as Mills Community Support Corporation)
- $4,000.00
- Champlain Community Support Network
- $106,500.00
- Champlain Community Support Network (Renfrew)
- $8,000.00
- Connected Canadians
- $20,100.00
- Conseil Économique et Social d’Ottawa Carleton
- $20,000.00
- Cornerstone Housing for Women
- $13,400.00
- Groupe Action pour l’enfant, la famille et la communauté de Prescott-Russell
- $2,045.00
- Jewish Family Services of Ottawa
- $35,000.00
- Montfort Rennaissance
- $25,500.00
- Ottawa Aboriginal Coalition
- $40,000.00
- Ottawa Senior Pride Network
- $15,000.00
- Perth Enrichment Program for Older Adults
- $4,000.00
- Services Communautaires de Prescott et Russell
- $5,955.00
- The Good Companions
- $55,000.00
This information was last updated on May 19, 2021.
Legacy Giving - Testamentary Funds
- AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION
- FUNDING AMOUNT (CAD $)
- Chrysalis House (Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre)
- $2,500.00
- Counselling and Family Service Ottawa
- $5,000.00
- Interval House of Ottawa
- $2,500.00
- Minwaashin Lodge
- $2,500.00
- Nelson House
- $2,500.00
- Rural Ottawa South Support Services (ROSSS)
- $5,400.00
- The Good Companions
- $3,723.42
- The Good Companions
- $15,000.00
This information was last updated on May 19, 2021.
Emergency Community Support Fund - Round 1
Invested in July 2020
- AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION
- FUNDING AMOUNT (CAD $)
- Assunnah Muslims Association
- $30,000.00
- Banff Avenue Community House
- $130,000.00
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lanark County
- $5,665.00
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ottawa
- $60,000.00
- Britannia Woods Community House
- $20,000.00
- Bruce House
- $76,800.00
- Canadian Mental Health Association Champlain East
- $21,653.00
- Canadian Mothercraft of Ottawa Carleton
- $75,365.00
- Care Centre Ottawa
- $10,000.00
- Carlington Community Health Centre
- $50,565.00
- Centretown Community Health Centre
- $296,955.00
- Champlain Community Support Network
- $100,000.00
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation
- $25,000.00
- Club Optimiste de Rockland
- $5,750.00
- Community Resource Centre (Killaloe) Inc.
- $40,000.00
- Dementia Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County
- $180,000.00
- Distress Centre of Ottawa and Region
- $50,589.00
- Distress Centre of Ottawa and Region
- $100,000.00
- Elizabeth Fry Society of Ottawa
- $87,066.00
- Family and Children’s Services of Renfrew County
- $26,000.00
- Family Services Ottawa
- $55,000.00
- Groupe Action
- $2,815.00
- Hastings and Prince Edward Learning Foundation
- $25,000.00
- Helping With Furniture
- $25,000.00
- Interval House of Ottawa
- $135,184.00
- Inuuqatigiit Centre for Inuit Children, Youth and Families
- $117,144.00
- Jewish Family Services of Ottawa
- $50,000.00
- John Howard Society of Ottawa
- $80,000.00
- Kehillat Beth Israel Congregation
- $30,000.00
- Lanark County Community Justice
- $12,500.00
- Lanark County Mental Health
- $20,000.00
- Lanark Renfrew Health and Community Services
- $13,000.00
- LiveWorkPlay
- $22,500.00
- Living Without Violence
- $11,825.50
- Lowertown Community Resource Centre
- $100,000.00
- Maison Interlude House
- $23,500.00
- Minwaashin Lodge
- $60,000.00
- Mississippi Mills Youth Centre
- $51,780.50
- Nepean, Rideau and Osgoode Community Resource Centre (NROCRC)
- $30,000.00
- North Renfrew Family Services
- $19,392.00
- Operation Come Home
- $30,000.00
- Ottawa Community Housing Foundation for Healthy Communities (OCH Foundation)
- $75,000.00
- Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization (OCISO)
- $60,000.00
- Ottawa Food Bank
- $187,000.00
- Ottawa Gay Men’s Wellness Initiative (MAX Ottawa)
- $48,938.00
- Ottawa Network for Education
- $35,000.00
- Parkdale Food Centre
- $28,200.00
- Patro d'Ottawa
- $35,000.00
- Perth Enrichment Program for Older Adults
- $7,200.00
- Phoenix Centre for Children and Families
- $185,000.00
- Phoenix Centre for Children and Families*
- $18,000.00
- Refugee 613 (OCISO)
- $50,000.00
- Riceville Food Bank
- $18,000.00
- Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre
- $25,000.00
- Roberts Smart Centre
- $90,000.00
- Serenity Renewal For Families
- $80,750.00
- Services Communitaires Prescott-Russell
- $105,000.00
- Social Planning Council of Ottawa
- $95,000.00
- Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, St. Columbkille’s Conference
- $15,000.00
- Somali Centre for Family Services
- $60,000.00
- Somerset West Community Health Centre
- $50,000.00
- Somerset West Community Health Centre
- $90,000.00
- South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre
- $60,000.00
- Stepstone House Immigrants Integration Support Services
- $20,000.00
- Tewegan Housing for Aboriginal Youth
- $39,497.00
- The Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa
- $40,000.00
- The Good Companions
- $429,830.00
- Tungasuvvingat Inuit
- $95,000.00
- Upper Canada Leger Centre - Healthy Eating Better Learning
- $20,000.00
- Victim Services of Renfrew County
- $26,000.00
- Vista Centre Brain Injury Services
- $40,000.00
- Volunteer Ottawa
- $75,000.00
- Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health
- $74,695.00
- Women's Sexual Assault Centre of Renfrew County
- $26,000.00
- YAK Youth Services
- $51,780.50
- Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa
- $56,000.00
- YouTurn Youth Support Services
- $7,650.00
* Funds from both ECSF and United Way’s After the Floods initiative contributed to this investment.
This information was last updated on May 19, 2021.
Emergency Community Support Fund - Round 2
- AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION
- FUNDING AMOUNT (CAD $)
- Alzheimer Society of Lanark Leeds Grenville
- $6,807.00
- Banque Alimentaire Bons Voisins
- $5,000.00
- Banque Alimentaire Casselman Crysler St-Albert Food Bank
- $10,000.00
- Britannia Woods Community House
- $40,000.00
- Caldwell Family Centre
- $14,650.00
- Canadian Cancer Society
- $25,000.00
- Canadian Mental Health Association - Ottawa Branch
- $100,080.00
- Carebridge Community Support (also known as Mills Community Support Corporation)
- $3,000.00
- Centre Chrétien Viens et Vois
- $6,500.00
- Centre d'éducation financière EBO (Entraide Budgétaire Ottawa)
- $25,043.00
- Centre Novas-CALACS francophone de Prescott-Russell
- $10,000.00
- Coopérative Ami Jeunesse Inc.
- $15,000.00
- DEEN Support Services
- $50,000.00
- Dress for Success Ottawa National Capital Region
- $30,000.00
- Family and Children's Services of Renfrew County
- $27,395.00
- Frontier College
- $10,000.00
- Hopewell Eating Disorder Support Centre of Ottawa
- $9,900.00
- Inuuqatigiit Centre for Inuit Children, Youth and Families
- $38,660.00
- Jewish Family Services of Ottawa
- $16,866.00
- Jewish Family Services of Ottawa
- $68,217.30
- Lanark County Interval House and Community Support
- $24,651.00
- Minwaashin Lodge
- $55,000.00
- Mississippi Mills Youth Centre
- $15,695.00
- New Covenant Apostolic Church
- $15,000.00
- Olde Forge Community Resource Centre
- $24,466.00
- Operation Come Home
- $17,233.00
- Options Bytown Non-Profit Housing Corporation
- $7,862.00
- Parent Resource Centre
- $29,000.00
- Parkdale Food Centre
- $24,000.00
- Patro d'Ottawa
- $10,000.00
- PFLAG Canada
- $20,000.00
- Regroupement Autisme Prescott-Russell
- $15,000.00
- Rideau Community Health Services
- $9,250.00
- Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre
- $25,000.00
- Robbie Dean Family Counselling Centre
- $3,600.00
- Social Planning Council of Ottawa
- $50,000.00
- Social Planning Council of Ottawa
- $28,800.00
- Somerset West Community Health Centre
- $85,000.00
- South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre
- $62,792.28
- Special Olympics Ontario
- $10,000.00
- St. Mary's Home
- $30,000.00
- The Good Companions
- $25,000.00
- The Salvation Army in Ottawa
- $31,822.00
- The Table Community Food Centre
- $20,000.00
- Upper Canada Leger Centre for Education and Training
- $14,112.00
- Vanier Community Service Centre (CSC Vanier)
- $15,096.00
- Women’s Sexual Assault Centre of Renfrew County
- $15,820.00
- YAK Youth Services
- $5,805.87
- Youville Centre
- $30,000.00
This information was last updated on May 19, 2021.
Women United
- AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION
- FUNDING AMOUNT (CAD $)
- Bernadette McCann House
- $7,500.00
- Lanark County Interval House and Community Support
- $7,500.00
- Maison Interlude House
- $7,500.00
- Minwaashin Lodge
- $7,500.00
This information was last updated on May 19, 2021.
Social Services Relief Fund
Building Back a Better Prescott-Russell Food Security Ecosystem
Invested on January 1, 2021
- AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION
- FUNDING AMOUNT (CAD $)
- Project 1: Groupe Convex
- $32,400.00
- Project 1: Académie du Gourmet
- $8,580.00
- Project 2: Pick, Plant, and Prune
- $11,130.50
- Project 3: United Way East Ontario and 211
- $19,760.00
- Project 4: Services Communautaires de Prescott-Russell
- $24,806.25
This information was last updated on May 19, 2021.
Facing Forward
Ensuring most vulnerable people have access to face masks.
March 2020 – March 2021
- ORGANIZATION
- NUMBER OF CLOTH MASKS PURCHASED
- City of Ottawa
- 10,000
- Ottawa Police Service
- 10,000
- Circle K
- 5,000
- Ottawa Food Bank
- 15,525
- Ottawa Inner City Health
- 9,250
- United Way Thunder Bay
- 2,850
- Website Sales
- 725
- In-person sales at OC Transpo Locations
- 300
This information was last updated on May 19, 2021.