2024-2025 Annual Report_UWWRC - Flipbook - Page 43
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Funding Type
Issue Area
Description
Social Development
Centre Waterloo
Region
General Operating
Support
Affordable
Housing &
Homelessness
SDCWR is a learning organization
that supports all voices in the
creation of community wide
solutions, ensuring that lived
experience is the basis for collective
action towards change in policies
and service delivery.
Somali Canadian
Association of
Waterloo Region
General Operating
Support
Community &
Social Supports
Somali Canadian Association of
Waterloo Region’s goal is to
motivate and empower the East
African community through active
participation, modelling meaningful
engagement, and collaborating and
advocating with mainstream
organizations.
Spectrum Waterloo
Region's Rainbow
Community Space
General Operating
Support
Community &
Social Supports
Spectrum is an organization that
serves, affirms, and supports the
well-being of 2SLGBTQIA+
individuals in Waterloo Region and
the broader community through
peer support, community
partnerships, education and training,
resources, and events.
Strong Start
Charitable
Organization
Get Ready for School
Children &
Youth
Get Ready for School Program: Get
Ready for School is an in-class
intervention program that reduces
the gap in literacy and school
readiness for children vulnerable at
school entry.
Letters, Sounds and Words Program:
An evidence-based,
high-impact, early literacy
intervention program for children,
delivered by trained volunteers, in
partnership with schools & school
boards.
Supportive Housing
of Waterloo
Nourish and Thrive:
Transforming Lives with
Local Food Access
Food Insecurity
Nourish and Thrive provides SHOW
residents with consistent access to
locally sourced food, fostering wellbeing and reducing food insecurity
through a dedicated on- site food
bank.
Letters, Sounds and
Words™
2024/2025 Annual Report
