Answering Questions about MakeWay
Members of the public and donors may ask questions about the Project's relationship with MakeWay. MakeWay recommends that employees and volunteers use the messaging below to describe MakeWay and its charitable work.
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MakeWay’s vision is a healthy environment with social equity and economic prosperity for all Canadians.
We build bridges among sectors, helping to steer more philanthropy into solutions that address social and environmental challenges. In collaboration with diverse partners, MakeWay provides tools, expertise, strategy, and relationships to get from vision to impact.
We provide strategy, networks, expertise, and tools to help our partners get from vision to impact.
MakeWay’s partners include community initiatives, foundations, Indigenous organizations, philanthropists, governments, and diverse communities from coast to coast to coast.
We offer:
A home to over 60 unique Projects across the country. By joining our shared platform, Projects benefit from strategic advice, governance, human resources, financial, and grant management, allowing them to more effectively achieve their missions.
Advisory services ranging from strategy and consulting through to management and implementation, for a wide range of partners.
Donor advised funds that minimize charitable administration costs and maximize the impact and flexibility of funding for environmental, economic, and social justice.
Strategic grant-making programs that invest in community-led solutions to integrated environmental, social, and economic challenges in specific regions, like the North and Coastal BC, or on specific issues like food sovereignty, Indigenous rights and authority, and land-based wellness.
MakeWay, its Projects, and grantees, often work to inform public policy to achieve our mission done in full compliance with the laws and policies governing charities in Canada. Recognizing that charities play an important role in public policy dialogue and development activities, in 2019, the CRA removed any restrictions around allowable political activities, when they are aligned with an organization’s charitable objectives.
MakeWay does not engage in partisan political activity and does not provide funding for other organizations to do so. MakeWay has never supported, directly or indirectly, through making grants or other means, any political party, politician, or candidate for office.