Gift Guide: Make a donation in their name
For those who want to give back during the holiday season, it can be challenging to keep our efforts local and useful.
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Helping with Furniture wins Ottawa Social Impact Award (Community Initiative category)
The premise of Helping With Furniture, a registered charity, is brilliantly simple. They take donated and discarded furniture and other items, including tables, chairs, linens, lamps, mirrors, chests of drawers, and all manner of other items, and deliver them to the homes of refugees, new immigrants, and low-income families in the Ottawa area, who otherwise lack the money or ability to get such furnishings.
Ottawa startup GoGive-back makes life easier for charities and donors alike
The modern world is moving fast, and sometimes you have to run in place just to keep up. We are all multi-taskers, overburdened workers, or frazzled parents just trying to keep up before the next onslaught of demands. Enter a range of apps and products designed to save us time, help us organize ourselves and […]
Meet this month’s other charity mustache growers
Long before men’s health charities and hipsters commandeered the mustache and watered down its shock value, a group of Ottawa men has been parading around town with upper lip whiskers for a single month of the year to raise funds for those generally told to stay away from men with creepy mustaches. M4K Ottawa, otherwise […]
