About Us
The Chawkers Foundation was created in 1988 with a sole donation from Charles and Joey Alexander, residents of Montréal and Les Cantons de l’Est. They had a simple vision of helping good people do good work, and they had interests in, among others, the environment and education.
Our Support: Case Study
From 2014 to 2022, we funded several specific projects of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, whose goal is to connect fragmented conservation lands and have communities and wildlife co-exist successfully. These projects included land-use planning meetings, communications projects, and the development of the road mortality app that collected data for strategic placement of wildlife overpasses and underpasses. Over the course of nine years, we realized that many of the projects involved longer timelines and a lot of background work with communities, scientists, policy-makers and the public.
In 2023, Y2Y became one of the initial groups that we chose to support with Multi-year Unrestricted funding. This has allowed Y2Y to do some of the long-range background work, building relationships with key communities and supporting these communities with scientific data for their conservation efforts.
Y2Y has become a world leader in collaboration for natural space connectivity.
Our Funding Streams
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Last Year’s Project Grant Recipients
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Our Support: Case Studies
In 2020, Bread & Beyond/Au-delà du pain was created to respond to the needs of local shelters by providing sandwiches to agencies for the homeless. As part of our Front-Line Agencies grant stream, we were keen to support them in the critical first year and solidify their volunteer system.
Since then, B&B/A-ddp has grown their sandwich program, and also created the Needseeker platform that helps the public donate household goods efficiently to 11 local shelters, and the Essentials Boxes program for people moving out of shelters into permanent housing (bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, grocery and cleaning essentials).
Bread &Beyond / Au-delà du pain continues to create innovative, volunteer-based, vital programs that meet the needs of local shelters. We’re very pleased to support them annually with unrestricted funding.
In 2003 we committed to providing the funding necessary to launch the Walrus Magazine, with a mandate to promote educational discourse about matters vital to Canadians, in recognition of the key role that the media play in supporting an informed citizenship.