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.
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.
Our supporters empower a growing community of over 47,000 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.
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 on the button below to donate using Canada Helps:
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, contact Kieran at kieran@tamarackcommunity.ca to speak with our team!