Your Gift Feeds Hope

In 2025 KVFB served 5,000 clients, 16% of the population of the Kennebecasis Valley. Continued growth revealed a need to expand our facilities. Expansion will help us to ensure people always have access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their needs and preferences. The expansion project is close to ​​completion.  Total costs for the project are expected to come in at $812,000 compared to an original budget of $920,000.  Support from the MacGillivray Law Journey’s Grant will help to fund the expansion costs and assist with expected higher operating costs going forward.

LungNSPEI is seeking $5,000 to protect future lungs through Youth Vaping Awareness Days. Kids are being lured into nicotine addiction by vaping before they are educated on how it will impact their health. Our project has university students meeting with youth in classrooms to have honest conversations about vaping, health, and choices. Your vote will help protect young lungs, prevent addiction before it starts, and give kids a healthier future.

This funding will go directly to food purchases, allowing the Action Ministries of Grand Manan Food Bank to support members of our community during a difficulty time. Our goal is to be a resilient source of both healthy and nutritious food. As needs continue to grow, a steady and reliable program will provide equal access to food which is critical to the well-being of our community, preventing crises before they happen.

Addiction affects 1 in 5 Canadians, including here in Atlantic Canada. The Foundations for Recovery Project enable lasting change: lives rebuilt and families restored through Teen Challenge’s Atlantic Hope Women’s Centre Recovery Model. What sets this project apart is long-term live-in care addressing root causes and helping women exit the cycle of addiction, so families, neighbourhoods, and communities can truly feel the difference.

Since opening, the New Glasgow ReStore has supported many journeys—a young person landing a first job, a senior furnishing a home affordably, or a family rebuilding after hardship—reflecting MacGillivray Law’s commitment to helping people recover and move forward. This rural pilot expands Habitat’s award-winning ReStore model, creating jobs, engaging volunteers, diverting waste, and strengthening the rural mainland community.

Feeling safe at the first point of contact after trauma can change everything. The Willow Centre is a team of two providing sexual violence support in our community. Survivors deserve immediate trauma-informed care. This Volunteer Program will strengthen supports by training volunteers to offer timely accompaniment, advocacy, and connection to care—because when survivors feel safe and supported, healing becomes possible and further harm can be prevented.

Founded in 2012, Common Roots Urban Farm operates two vibrant community farm sites in Halifax and Dartmouth, where people grow food, share knowledge, and build connections. Across one acre, CRUF stewards common gardens and teaching gardens, which donate over 3000 pounds of fresh food each season.  Over half of our 240 community plots are gardened by newcomers. The farms use gardening to address food insecurity, mental health, and social isolation.

SuperNOVA’s new proposed EAT (Environment, Agriculture & Technology) program engages youth in Nova Scotia with hands-on learning about nutrition, food science, traditional practices like foraging and Netukulimk, and modern agriculture shaped by technology and AI. Connecting environmental stewardship, food systems, and food sovereignty, EAT equips 125 youth across 5 communities with skills to strengthen local food security.

The Token Project provides free, chef-made meals to community members in need, served with dignity and without stigma. Tokens are distributed through dozens of trusted partners and redeemed for hot or frozen meals at Upward Café in Halifax. Demand now averages 50 meals per day. With additional support, the project can provide 15,000 meals; sustaining 10 months of reliable, nutritious food access for seniors, families, and neighbours across our community.

For the hundreds of boys waiting for a Big Brother in Atlantic Canada, mentoring isn’t optional – it’s a vital support when it matters most during a child’s development. By mobilizing more male mentors, we can reduce wait times, create life-changing relationships, and transform the futures of youth facing adversity. The “Big Effect” is a regional effort that turns waiting into belonging – and moments of support into lasting impact