A New Model of Compassion & Creativity

Recognizing the importance of community in people's lives at the crossroads

Seeds of Hope

It is the mission of Seeds of Hope to build self-sustaining communities that create the conditions to enable individuals at a crossroads in their lives develop their livelihood, learning and creative potential through engagement with each other in experiencing social enterprise and community endeavors.

Seeds of Hope Foundation has a 16-year history of operating two resource centres and five housing projects that work to stop this ‘Revolving Door’ of individuals moving from the street to police arrest to hospitalization and back to the street.  Our main focus has been to create ‘centres of friendship’ that are safe places, and to encourage individuals who are at a crossroads in their lives to support one another. People can be at a crossroads in their lives for many reasons, including recovery from addiction or mental health challenges, unemployment or just bad luck. They also bring many skills that allow us to operate with minimal overhead.

Our resource centres operate as ‘open space learning centres’ where meals & learning centre programs are offered at no charge.

Facts

Mission Statement

To build self-sustaining communities that create the conditions to enable individuals who are at a crossroads in their lives develop their livelihood, learning and creative potential through engagement with each other in learning activities, social enterprises and community endeavours.

History

Track Record: Incorporated 2001. Current mission established 2003.

Charitable Registration: #13929 8830 RR 0001

Annual Operating Budget (2009): $475,000

Visits: Approximately 15,000 annual visits / individual program participation

Volunteers: Operates with a 95% volunteer model

Hospitality: 200 visitors weekly to community café and programs

Seeds of Hope Communities

6 St. Joseph House Resource Centre, wellness and learning classrooms/studios, Seeds of Hope offices.

Yellow Door Learning Centre wellness, life-skills, creative arts and social enterprise workshops.

Broadview Homes
supportive housing for 34 men in peer-support abstinence-based addiction recovery, with a model of community engagement.

Lazarus House
Women's Shelter for women escaping abuse, sex trade and precarious social and economic circumstances.

Social Enterprise Programs
incubating community and social enterprise.

Carrot Green Roof
Vegetable and Medicinal herb garden

Friends of Farm
Therapeutic Health Farm

Innovation Lab
experimental discovery lab of learning techniques aimed at people that have difficulty learning in traditional environments

Please donate to Seeds of Hope

You will have the option to designate your donation to any of the following Seeds of Hope initiatives: