People engage with the Tamarack Institute to make true, powerful change in their communities.
Some come to learn, others come to gather and to collaborate. All come for the strength and the wisdom needed to make a real difference.
The Community Change Movement uplifts the unique gifts and perspectives held by people like you. With your generous donation to Tamarack, you champion community leadership and engagement as meaningful and urgent avenues to address the interconnected challenges around us.
Your kindness and generosity will contribute to:
.... and so much more. Together, we will show that the successes of our collective movement rest on supporting one another.
If you have general questions about donating to Tamarack, and the impact your dollars will have, please contact Justin Williams, at justin@tamarackcommunity.ca, to speak with our team!
A donation to Tamarack means a donation impacting and uplifting those with lived experience.
The key to our sustainability is our people and their impact. At Tamarack we are committed to supporting our diverse community of members and partners, to making their work easier, and, above all, more effective.
Our network of incredible and passionate changemakers has grown by more than 50% in the last five years.
The progress of our shared movement would not have been possible without changemakers like you, and its future rests on our commitment to continue building and learning together.
That’s why we have decided to embrace fundraising as a movement building tool. Together, we can strengthen our shared commitments to our communities and movements, policy and systems change, and large-scale impact.
Alberta’s Bow Valley is both uniquely impacted by climate change and uniquely poised to advance climate action. Read how the Town of Canmore and Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley leveraged learnings from the inaugural climate transitions cohort to mobilize over 80 changemakers to kick-start collective action on climate in the region.
Our supporters empower a growing community of over 50,000 changemakers across Canada and the world. By donating to Tamarack, you help sustain and expand the community change movement. Your donations help us build learning tools created by seasoned experts, such as:
Your donations also help improve the local conditions (e.g., common agendas, partnerships, backbone staff, data collection) to accelerate the capacity of communities to lead efforts to address the challenges they face.
You may also choose to support the Be A Light Fund. Through this Fund, you help enable the learning and leadership of diverse practitioners in the communities work with. The Fund provides scholarships that subsidize and/or provide free learning opportunities to support Black, Indigenous, and racialized changemakers, youth and emerging practitioners, community members living on no or low-incomes, and those from small and grassroots organizations to be leaders of community change work.
We want to give special thanks to the funding partners and contributors who breathe significant momentum into the movement and our collective work. Our growing learning community and organizational funding partners are catalytic supporters of the movement.
As a registered charity, all funds generated through paid learning engagements from our members and learners are reinvested back into our work to strengthen Tamarack’s publicly available supports and resources. In 2022, contributions from our learning community totaled nearly $1.8M to the community change movement.
We are also deeply thankful for the organizational funding partners who have journeyed with us from the beginning and those who have joined the movement more recently.
Tamarack Institute is a registered Canadian charity. Our registration number is 86280 8615 RR0001.
We have partnered with Canada Helps to help make giving your contribution quick and seamless. Canada Helps will provide you with a tax receipt upon making your donation. Click here to donate using Canada Helps.
We offer the opportunity to make direct deposits (also known as electronic funds transfer or EFT) straight into Tamarack’s account. If you would like to make a direct deposit donation, and require our banking information, please email us at finance@tamarackcommunity.ca.
Please note we will also request some personal information from you, should you desire a tax receipt.
If you would prefer to send a cheque directly to Tamarack, we are happy to process and send you a tax receipt directly. Cheques can be made payable in CAD $ to Tamarack and mailed to:
Tamarack Institute
Kindred Centre for Peace Advancement, Conrad Grebel University College
University of Waterloo
140 Westmount Road North
Waterloo, Ontario
N2L 3G6
If you have any issues or would like to discuss your support further, please contact Justin Williams, at justin@tamarackcommunity.ca, to speak with our team!
In the spirit of respect, reciprocity, and truth we honour and acknowledge that our work occurs across Turtle Island (North America), which has been home since time immemorial to the ancestors of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples.
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