The following 42 groups and projects received grants of up to $10,000 to support their incredible work in 2025 and beyond.
230 Fightback
230 Fightback was founded in the fall of 2022 to continue to fight for vital social housing at 214-230 Sherbourne. Remaining vacant for decades, the site has been a focal point at the epicentre of the housing crisis. After ongoing struggles to urge the City to expropriate the properties, the City put in a bid to purchase the properties in 2022, only to be outbid by KingSett Capital. After targeting the developer to stop their proposed condo development on the contested site, 230 Fightback has since been notified that KingSett Capital has agreed to sell the properties to the city for the amount they paid during the bidding war.
The city has since indicated their willingness to negotiate, but has rejected this initial offer. 230 Fightback will continue confronting both the city and the developer to come to an agreement in which the city will acquire the site and build vital social housing in the area. 230 Fightback is expanding our network of allies across Toronto and supporting organizations in the city against greedy developers and growing gentrification that pushes out residents and contributes to the deepening housing crisis in the city.
Abortion Support Collective
The Abortion Support Collective is a group of abortion doulas and abortion support practitioners unified by the belief that abortion should be accessible to everyone. We are physically located in W̱_SÁNEĆ and ləkʷəŋən territories in so-called Victoria, BC. Our collective supports folks and families accessing abortion for any reason, through direct and virtual abortion support, including in-person accompaniment, transportation assistance, advocacy, informational support, and connection to national and community resources.
We act as a receiving site for folks traveling to our area to access abortion services. We offer abortion care packages, pregnancy & ovulation tests, community support spaces, and weekly warm line hours, where folks can talk or text live with an abortion doula. We offer all services free of charge to clients.
Al-Awda Vancouver
Al-Awda Vancouver is a grassroots organization aimed at educating, empowering, and mobilizing people for Palestine in the Lower British Columbia Mainland. Led by Palestinians, the organization prides itself on being led by the people, for the people. Al-Awda leads rallies, educational events and panels, cultural events and various other initiatives all in the pursuit of the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.
Anakbayan Manitoba
Anakbayan (Tagalog for "youth of the nation") is a national democratic comprehensive mass organization with a socialist perspective. We are Filipino youth and students that aim to arouse, organize and mobilize for national democracy and to unify this movement with the powerful movement of the toiling masses.
Anarchist Social Center L'Achoppe
The Anarchist Social Center/Centre Social Anarchiste (CSA) L’Achoppe has been a pillar of cultural and political activities in Hochelaga and Montreal since 2018. The community space hosts performances, workshops, film screenings and discussions. It's a place that continuously fosters political education, knowledge and skill sharing, where one can meet and build relationships of solidarity with a community of activists.
L’Achoppe works to build collective autonomy in a variety of ways and collective projects. You can repair bicycles, jam, cook collectively, learn to brew beer, browse books and zines in the library, or study while drinking coffee. The space is used to meet, coordinate and host events and fundraisers for shared or solidarity struggles. L’Achoppe is a space of experimentation that evolves with new initiatives
The social center aims to provide a space where production of revolutionary theories and practices flourish; a place where the oppressed can live, play and organize. Our aim is to coordinate with ongoing social struggles and build up a considerable political and joyful force for oppressed comrades.
Anishinaabeg + Palestinian Alliance
The Anishinaabeg Palestine Alliance is a group of Palestinian and Anishinaabeg organizers who are committed to enacting deep and relational practices of joint struggle to work towards our collective liberation. This organizing group hosts community events, art builds and most importantly, hosts a one-week delegation for Palestinian kin to visit Treaty 3 homelands to learn about settler colonialism on Turtle Island and to build committed relationships to one another.
Bad Date Coalition
The Bad Date Coalition has provided safety tools and resources to sex workers and community agencies for over 15 years. The BDC's core service is compiling and distributing printed Bad Date Books, an important safety tool for the sex work community.
The term “bad date” is used to describe an episode of violence enacted upon a sex worker, as well as incidents of theft, refusal of payment, threats, rudeness, time wasting, harassment, aggressive behaviour, etc. Sex workers face many barriers to reporting bad dates due to stigma and criminalization.
Caribbean Solidarity Network
The Caribbean Solidarity Network, CSN, is an organization committed to the principles of Caribbean Liberation and Unity across the region as well as throughout the Diaspora. CSN's platform is rooted in a feminist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonial struggle. Our objectives are:
1) To build community power and through the development of public education and outreach in Toronto.
2) To work with and support progressive forces and organizations in the Caribbean.
3) To challenge the Canadian state and corporate policies which seek to keep the Caribbean region and its peoples in a dependent position.
4) To create an internal community and culture of support in order to both carry out this work, and grow together as comrades.
Christians for A Free Palestine: Toronto
Created in 2024, Christians for a Free Palestine: Toronto is made up of individuals across Christian denominations, seeking to confront and unsettle the the theologies and practices of genocide and Indigenous erasure.
Cloverdale-Langley for Palestine
Cloverdale-Langley for Palestine is a multi-racial, interfaith, inclusive, grassroots community, united in our commitment to advocate for the Palestinian cause. Based in Cloverdale and Langley, which are situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Kwantlen, Katzie, and Semiahmoo First Nations, we work to raise awareness, advocate for justice, and stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine.
Community Food Space:
Toronto Black Farmers and Growers Collective
The Toronto Black Farmers and Growers Collective (TBFC) are a group of people who came together out of food inequality and oppression. Since 2013, we have decided to make changes in our food experiences, cost, quality, access, and cultural relevance. Members are farmers, growers, small food business owners, and food insecure people standing against food injustices, food insecurity, food poverty, and supporters who support the work we do.
We became good food advocates because of our lived experience and made the effort by working to develop a model with the community that gave us an empowered experience, to create safe space, and improved health and well-being. Interrogating food sovereignty as it pertains to access to arable fertile land for communal food activities is still a part of food planning for TBFC. Food planning is done with neighbourhood leaders and residents from across the GTA collectively, with 33 neighborhoods seasonally.
We have connected dots to create and pilot neighborhood food policy with residents to share food insecurity impacts on Afro- and other people. We know through collective food planning that a variety of measures are required to improve access to quality, affordable, healthy, local, and culturally relevant "clean food." Participants/volunteers come from diverse food cultures in the Tropical, Equatorial, and seasonal regions of the world. We bring with us rich food traditions, history, knowledge, applications, cultural anecdotes, with a diversity of food products. Our dishes promote and showcase our history and cultures traditionally and new additions, many created on the run!
Disability Justice Network of Ontario
Disability Justice Network of Ontario (DJNO) aims to build a just and accessible Ontario where disabled people have personal and political agency; can thrive and foster community; and build the power, capacity, and skills needed to hold people, communities, and institutions responsible for the spaces they create.
DJNO has created system navigation toolkits that incorporate lived experience, policy and law regarding home care, the school-to-prison-pipeline, and criminal legal system. DJNO has also continued to provide individual and policy development support around Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) as well as medical system ableism and racism. The project team dreams of a world where community and relationships are central to care, accountability, and justice. One where harsh punishment and carceral practices are obsolete.
Eglinton-Lawrence & Don Valley 4 Palestine
Eglinton-Lawrence & Don Valley 4 Palestine (ELDV) is a solidarity network bringing together community members living in the Eglinton-Lawrence & Don Valley areas of Tkaronto in support of Palestinian liberation and of one another. Our focus is to support local organizing, community initiatives and efforts to make Palestine a national issue.
Friends of the Attawapiskat River
The Friends of the Attawapiskat River (FAR) are an Indigenous grassroots group based in Treaty 9, in the far north of Ontario, Canada, dedicated to protecting the health of the waters, people, and communities living downstream of the proposed 'Ring of Fire.' As Treaty 9 people, the Friends have a shared responsibility to protect Treaty lands from exploitation and degradation. This means safeguarding the integrity of the boreal and muskeg of the Hudson Bay-James Bay lowlands, its significant contribution to mitigating climate change, and the health of their grandchildren and those not yet born.
GTA Ridings 4 Palestine
GTA Ridings 4 Palestine is a forum for riding groups and other initiatives working across GTA and neighbouring municipalities that seeks to facilitate and grow the capacity of our members and our collaboration to engage in Palestine solidarity work.
We aim to build shared and co-ordinated analysis, strategies, planning, tools and actions that will change how people in our local communities understand the history and current issues affecting Palestine, and that will mobilize people and resources to disrupt political and economic interests driving genocide, oppression, and apartheid.
Harm Reduction Advocacy Collective
The Harm Reduction Advocacy Collective (HRAC) is a volunteer-led, Toronto-based collective of PWUD, harm reduction workers, healthcare workers, and allies who are fighting for drug user liberation. We are drug user-led, and support direct action and education aimed at increasing awareness of the Toxic Drug Crisis and advocating for evidence-based harm reduction solutions.
Our practice is rooted in equity and reciprocity. We have successfully created a gathering space to organize, grieve, share, raise awareness through direct action and help amplify the voices of PWUD. HRAC has been critical in coordinating direct action and advocacy campaigns against the closure of Safe Consumption Sites, Safer Supply Programs and needle exchange. This movement is an intersectional coalition, bringing together diverse allies while continuing to centre the leadership of those most impacted: People Who Use Drugs.
Jǫgwadri̱hwate:dǫh “We Are Brightening Our Ways Again”
Based out of Six Nations of the Grand River Terrtiroy, Jǫgwadri̱ hwate:dǫh "We Are Brightening Our Ways Again" is a grassroots collective of Gayogo̱ ho:nǫ'/Cayuga language educators, learners & speakers aiming to support and grow language revitalization movement via resource development, teaching & training, research & planning, classes/workshops and outreach/advocacy.
Migrante Ottawa
Migrante Ottawa is a chapter of Migrante Canada, which in turn is a chapter of Philippine-based Migrante International, a global alliance of over 200 member organizations in 23 countries. Migrante Ottawa is a Filipino mass organization fighting for national democracy in the Philippines and migrants rights and welfare in Ottawa since 2000. We support the struggles of the Filipino people and all migrants to address political, social and economic conditions that lead to forced migration.
Migrante Quebec
Migrante Quebec is a mass membership-based Filipino migrant and immigrant organization. Migrante Quebec is a provincial chapter of Migrante Canada that has members and chapters across the country. Furthermore, Migrante is an anti-imperialist global movement of Filipino migrant workers with chapters in Asia, Europe, the Middle-East and North-America.
Nesting Doula Collective
The Nesting Doula Collective is a grassroots hub for cultural resurgence in birth and care work for Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities. We provide pay-what-you-can and pro bono birth and postpartum doula services as well as childbirth education and doula training led by and for Black, Indigenous and people of colour.
As doulas we work within the health care system and not for the health care system. We are accountable to our communities and the families we serve and as a result of this autonomy, we are able to fill gaps that disproportionately impact birthing families who are racialized, working class, and targeted by intersecting forms of oppression.
No More Silence
No More Silence aims to develop an inter/national network to support the work being done by activists, academics, researchers, agencies and communities to stop the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women – you can reach us at nomoresilenceorg@gmail.com
Nogojiwanong 2 Palestine
Nogojiwanong 2 Palestine (N2P) is a volunteer-run, grassroots collective based in Nogojiwanong (Peterborough), organizing in solidarity for a Free Palestine. We organize community education, creative direct action, fundraising/support, activist training, and healing gatherings. We work to end Canada's complicity in Israel's war crimes, genocidal attacks, and colonization of Palestinian land.
Our work is guided by those most impacted by settler colonialism. This involves centring Palestinian voices and following the leadership of the Michi Saagiig Anishinaabeg on whose stolen lands we gather.
Oakville 4 Palestine
Oakville 4 Palestine (O4P) is a grassroots and community-led organization that works to harness the power of community to bring about change and advocate for the freedom and liberation of Palestine and Palestinians, both in their ancestral homeland and within the Canadian diaspora. The group was formed in January 2024, after community members, upset with the racist and discriminatory manner in which they were treated by the Town of Oakville mayor and councillors, refused to be silenced and came together to discuss how we could collectively work to demand action of the Town.
After just one year, O4P has organized several actions that have brought our community together and educated the local and broader population on the reality of the oppression and genocide Palestinians are facing, and, more specifically, how the Canadian government, including local elected officials in Oakville and Halton, are complicit. O4P has also been successful in raising thousands of dollars for relief efforts in Gaza, and through mutual aid has helped to settle recently arrived refugees.
ODSP Action Coalition
ODSP Action Coalition is a volunteer, grassroots advocacy group led by people with disabilities on ODSP, with a network of valued allies that advocates for improvements to the benefits and other supports available to Ontario residents with disabilities so that they are able to live with justice and dignity.
Orange Hats
The Orange Hats provide legal support and trainings to progressive activists in the GTA. Named for the orange hats that identify them at protests, members document police misconduct and assist in supporting arrestees. Additionally, team members provide moral and emotional support to activists being criminalized, such as attending turn-ins, fingerprinting sessions, and court when asked.
Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)
The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) is a transnational, independent, grassroots movement of young Palestinians in Palestine and in exile worldwide. Our belonging to Palestine and our aspirations for justice and liberation motivate us to assume an active role as a youth movement in our national struggle for the liberation of our homeland and people.
Irrespective of our different political, cultural, and social backgrounds, we strive to revive a tradition of commitment toward our cause to ensure a better future, characterized by freedom and justice, for ourselves and future generations. Until return and liberation.
Pilipinong Migrante sa Barrie
Pilipinong Migrante sa Barrie promotes cross-cultural education, and connects Filipino newcomers with needed local services. It works to improve the lives, not only of the Filipino migrants but of the entire City of Barrie by building ties with the local community and other cultural groups in Barrie and Simcoe County. It offers educational, cultural and recreational activities and programs and celebrates Filipino culture and cultural events.
Protect the Inlet
Tsleil-Waututh Nation are the People of the Inlet and it is our sacred obligation to protect our lands and waters. Protect the Inlet was formed to uphold this responsibility, resisting harmful projects like the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) and advocating for the protection of the Salish Sea. For over eight years, Protect the Inlet has led direct actions to strengthen Indigenous leadership in land and water protection. Guided by Elders and land defenders, our work fosters intergenerational knowledge-sharing and resilience amongst Indigenous communities.
One of our key initiatives is the ceremonial canoe journey along the tanker traffic route, reconnecting youth and community members to ancestral waters while raising awareness about the threats posed by TMX. This journey is an assertion of Indigenous sovereignty, healing, and cultural resurgence. With strong community and partner support, Protect the Inlet continues to stand for Indigenous rights, defend our waters, and create opportunities for future generations to uphold their sacred responsibility to the land.
Queers 4 Palestine TO
Queers 4 Palestine Toronto is an anti-zionist coalition of queer and trans people based in Tkaronto who work in solidarity with Palestinian liberation movements. Formed in 2023 following the accelerated genocide in Gaza, we aim to enact the liberatory demand by Queers in Palestine: [a permanent and actualized] ceasefire, an end to the siege of Gaza, the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea, and an end to Canadian financial, military, diplomatic and political support to so-called Israel.
As queer and trans people, we aim to counter pinkwashing and settler colonialism in Palestine and in so-called Canada, and in our communities, by refusing the instrumentalization of our queerness to justify settler colonialism, imperialism, white supremacy, and genocide. Accordingly, we are committed to land back and the right of return.
instagram Q4P | instagram PSP campaign
Sour Springs Longhouse
Sour Springs Longhouse is traditional ceremonial building ran by Faithkeepers within the Haudenosaunee traditional government. Sour Springs Longhouse has been an active place of ceremony since the late 1700’s and hosts the Haudenosaunee cycle of ceremonies annually. Longhouses are the traditional place of ceremonies within Haudenosaunee culture.
Sovereign Likhts’amisyu
Sumudna
Sumudna is a BIPOC-led choir in Toronto that works for collective liberation. The group weaves singing with joy, community, and grassroots organizing toward systemic justice in the city. Sumuda translated from Arabic as "our steadfastness", was formed in 2024 as a response to the genocide on Gaza. "Sumud" is a Palestinian political and cultural concept that describes Palestinian steadfastness as a form of resisting colonialism through staying in their ancestral land, and living together in community independent of colonialism. We aim to root ourselves in these principles in the diaspora to work toward liberation.
Singing has been a vital part of many liberation struggles. Sumudna finds singing together as a means to longevity in organizing. Through exploring songs of protest and liberation globally, and their stories, Sumudna connects dots between liberation struggles. The choir has sung at several direct actions, rallies, and community events, offering emotional avenues for collective grief, regulating protest dynamics in high-stakes environments, and energizing protesters and community members in our shared plight for justice.
Our steadfastness is our rootedness, our community, our protest, and our wellbeing.
Teachers for Palestine - BC
Teachers for Palestine is a grassroots group of teachers, retired teachers and advocates for education. While we work mostly in BC to support educators and students working in the specific context of BC's educational policies and practices, we work alongside educators all over the country who want to see an end to the occupation and violence in Palestine.
We come together with a common purpose of bringing Palestine into our curricular practice. As teachers in a settlercolonial state country, it is important that we understand and teach about ongoing colonization and liberation. We work to create communities that aim to address anti-Palestinian racism and counter the Zionist narrative that seeks to silence social justice educators and the many people who are impacted by Zionist rhetoric.
The Amani Effect Youth Iniative
The Amani Effect is a youth-led initiative in Ottawa with the mission to empower and uplift Black youth ages 16 to 35, through community-driven and Afrocentric programs which will foster safe spaces, creativity, cultural reconnection, land-based learning, self expression, and belonging.
We provide drop-in workshops such as cultural cooking, African drumming, etc., which allows youths to connect with themselves and the community.
Tiny House Warriors
Tiny House Warriors is a mission to stop and resist extreme oil, including the Trans Mountain pipeline which bisects Secwepemc Territory. A grassroots, Indigenous-led organization, Tiny House Warriors is a land back movement, originally started in 2018 to resist the transmountain pipeline expansion from being built through Unceded Secwepemc Lands, has now since grown & evolved into a movement to build tiny houses as infrastructure to resist unwanted colonial occupation and industrial projects on Indigenous Territories without consent.
Toronto Area Solidarity Summer Alliance
Toronto Area Solidarity Summer Alliance (TASSA) supports South Asian and Indo-Caribbean youth and allies to learn and practice skills to organize our friends, peers, families, neighbours, and community members to think about the systems that affect our lives, build solidarities with each other, and take collective action for community liberation.
We accomplish this by 1) hosting summer education and community organizing training events that help youth participants sharpen critical analysis and develop collective leadership and community organizing skills to create change and realize justice with, in, and for our communities; and 2) a year-long youth fellowship that supports youth cohort members to deepen knowledge of issues and skills to build youth power in our movements; and 3) learning together with fellow BIPOC and working-class youth to build unity and solidarity in our struggles to build the worlds we want.
Toronto Body Rub Coalition
The Toronto Body Rub Coalition (TBRC) is a worker-led, grassroots collective organized by and for body rub workers. Unlike external advocacy groups, we are directly impacted workers leading the fight for systemic change. Our coalition includes current and former body rub workers, sex educators, and community allies, but all decisions are made by workers themselves to ensure their voices and experiences drive our advocacy. Our work began informally as a peer-led network to exchange resources, provide crisis support, and build solidarity among workers facing escalating bylaw enforcement, surveillance, and criminalization.
Body rub workers—particularly BIPOC, migrant, LGBTQ+, and low-income workers—experience targeted policing, exclusionary licensing policies, and systemic stigma that undermine their safety and autonomy. As the need for structured advocacy grew, TBRC was formalized in 2024 to directly challenge these injustices while strengthening community-based alternatives to state control.
We prioritize worker autonomy, mutual aid, and self-determination, resisting reliance on policing, the carceral system, or state-driven interventions. Our work recognizes the unique needs of body rub workers, including privacy, workplace safety, protection from systemic violence as well as alternative responses that are created and led by the community.
Toronto Harm Reduction Alliance
Toronto Harm Reduction Alliance (THRA) is a coalition of people who use drugs, frontline workers, students, researchers, and allies founded in January 2012. THRA advocates at the municipal, provincial, federal level, and international level for the broad implementation of harm reduction strategies to improve the lives of people who use drugs and to end drug prohibition. THRA is volunteer-led, non-partisan, receives no government funding, and operates solely through community donations.
Toronto Street Medics
Toronto Street Medics (TSM) is a group of care workers, healthcare professionals, community healers and organizers who believe that health and healthcare are political. While we struggle for a world that is free of oppression and that is joyful with justice, we've come together to support those on the frontlines using a diversity of tactics to fight for justice and dignity for us all.
World BEYOND War
Founded in 2014, World BEYOND War (WBW) is a global grassroots nonviolent movement of volunteers, activists, and allied organizations advocating for an end to war and the establishment of a just and sustainable peace. We aim to create awareness and support for ending war and to develop that support by advancing the idea of abolishing the institution of war. In doing so, we strive to replace a culture of war with an alternative global security system based on peace and diplomacy.
We have 46 chapters in 35 countries, and 107 affiliate organizations. With this network, war is being confronted by a strategic popular resistance which makes us well positioned to continue building the movement to end all wars. World BEYOND War Canada educates, organizes, and mobilizes to demilitarize Canada, while working with World BEYOND War members around the world to do the same globally. Through the efforts of our Canadian staff, chapters, allies, affiliates, and coalitions we've held conferences and forums, passed local resolutions, blocked weapons shipments and arms fairs with our bodies, divested funds from war profiteering, and shaped national debates.