The CCPA’s Manitoba Office was established in 1997 and has become a thriving and productive research centre.

The office publishes research reports, regular opinion pieces on current issues called Fast Facts (available free by email subscription), an annual alternative provincial budget, as well as annual reports on the state of the Manitoba economy and the state of public services.

Click here for the CCPA's "The View from Here" call for a poverty reduction plan for Manitoba.

www.makepovertyhistory.ca

The Winnipeg Labour Council (WLC) is this region's "House of Labour", or central labour body. Just as workers unite in a union to protect their rights, union locals unite in the Labour Council to further their aims and objectives. The WLC promotes the goals of the labour movement in Winnipeg at the municipal level.

Directly chartered by the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) and affiliated to the Manitoba Federation of Labour (MFL), the Council speaks out as labour's voice on municipal, provincial and national issues and promotes the social and economic welfare of workers and all Canadians. It is this body that the CLC and MFL turn to in order to carry out their policies in the community.

www.winnipeglabour.ca 

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Founded in 1985, the Council of Canadians is Canada’s largest citizens’ organization, with members and chapters across the country. We work to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, energy security, public health care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians.

Visit the website at:

www.canadians.org

Ka Ni Kanichihk means "those who lead" in the Ininew (Cree) language.

The vision for Ka Ni Kanichihk came from the Aboriginal community - women, men, elders and youth who recognized the critical need to develop greater human and capital capacity within the rapidly growing urban Aboriginal community. Ka Ni Kanichihk is committed to developing and delivering a range of programs and services that focus on wholesomeness and wellness and that builds on each individual's assets (gifts) and resilience.

Our mandate is to provide a range of culturally based education, training and employment, leadership and community development, and healing and wellness programs and services that are rooted in the restoration and reclamation of cultures. We believe that our ancestors left us a rich inheritance - traditional knowledge, languages, practices, customs and values. It is by embracing this legacy that we will be able to engage in a decolonization process.

As indigenous peoples, we will reclaim our traditional roles as leaders, teachers and healers. As a result, we can contribute fully to the health and well-being of our families, communities and nations.

We are a registered, non-profit, community based Aboriginal human services organisation. We are governed by a council inclusive of First Nation and Metis peoples in Winnipeg.

The University of Manitoba Aboriginal Students Association (UMASA) is a non-profit, sevice delivery group which works along side the Univeristy of Manitoba Student’s Union.  Our goal is to help make University life a pleasant one. The Aboriginal Students Association provides personal, cultural and moral support to all our members, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal.

UMASA provides support and information on Aboriginal issues by planning and organizing recreational, political, social and cultural events throughout the year. All registered U of M students who support these initiatives are encouraged to join.

UMASA also provide our members with two centres to gather, meet, and relax.  The UMASA Lounges are located in Room 113, Helen Glass Centre and the Aboriginal House at 45 Curry Place is open daily from 8:30 am – 10:00 pm.

Publicly funding for childcare is the social investment that has the biggest return when it comes to poverty eradication.

Check out the CCCM website to learn more, and get your organisation to register for the 20/20 Vision conference of the CCCM - Nov 9-10/09!

For further information, email:

grassrootswomenmb@gmail.com

The Spence Neighbourhood Association works with the people of Spence to revitalize and renew their community in the areas of health, safety, community economic development, and housing and neighbourhood image.

For more information about SNA: 

www.spenceneighbourhood.org