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Encourage community participation and social networking
Help them achieve self-reliance and open opportunities
Teach useful skills to help with their day-to-day tasks
Beyond our international projects, Good Neighbours Canada is also committed to providing support to local communities. With support from our sponsors, we create programs that help advance the skills and independence of vulnerable individuals in Canada, giving them more opportunities and self-empowerment.
Goods4Causes is a social enterprise program working to support equity-deserving artisans with skills development and income generation, both here in Canada and internationally. Our local support, through Goods4Causes, started as a way to help vulnerable individuals participate in the Canadian economy by selling their crafts online. We work with a range of talented local vendors, prioritizing the most marginalized groups, particularly newcomers, refugees, people of colour and people experiencing financial insecurity.
Our partner vendors use our platform free of charge and keep 100% of their sales proceeds. They sell a variety of sustainable handmade items as well as benefit from workshops and training sessions that will advance their crafts and entrepreneurial skills, ultimately supporting them towards running a stable small business for secure income.
Visit our Goods4Causes website to learn more and browse our selection of socially-conscious handmade goods.
Are you a Canadian businesses that is interested in supporting marginalized communities?
The Good Shop is an initiative where Canadian businesses can partner with Good Neighbours Canada to help support income-generating projects for local and international communities. Your monthly donations goes to funding projects that promote financial stability and self-reliance.
Businesses that become Good Shop partners get perks and promotional items from us. Showcase to all your customers that you are a business that is interested in global change.
Good Neighbours Canada is partnered with PATH (Parents Association Living Toward Hope), a parent-led organization dedicated to uplifting children with developmental disabilities and providing respite for their full-time carers. This collaboration is a testament to our shared values and dedication to making a significant difference in the lives of those who need it most.
Good Neighbours Canada is presently supporting a community of over 50 families with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnoses, who are marginalized on account of their newcomer status, limited if any English language skills, being of a visible minority and needing to provide round-the-clock care for their children with additional needs.
Families in the group have very limited access to support services such as personal social workers for caregiving respite, or financial support to help provide for their children’s additional needs. As such, the parents of these families act as permanent caregivers and suffer from severe isolation, with no time for interpersonal connection with adult peers or vital downtime from providing care, which causes poor psycho-emotional safety.
Through PATH, we are supporting educational programs children with developmental disabilities, empower parents by providing informative resources, and strengthen the network of these families.
Good Neighbours Canada is providing a support program for seniors’ social participation and technological education, our ‘Connecting Together’ program. Through this program, we are supporting marginalized Korean seniors, a population group experiencing additional barriers to social and technological inclusion due to their age and local language barrier.
Currently, we are in partnership with Happy Senior Center and the Korean-Canadian Alzheimer’s Society, organizations that support Korean immigrant seniors who speak very little to no English. These seniors are faced with the challenge of technology illiteracy and increased isolation caused by the language barrier. Through the Connecting Together program, we will host workshops, group activities, and individual mentorships that will allow seniors to engage in their community and learn new tech skills to help them with their daily lives. We hope that participants of the program will be able to achieve self-reliance and improve their mental well-being by feeling better equipped to navigate essential digital administrative tasks, and connecting with others in their native language.
