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Are you looking for a way to act locally?
These local groups offer many great ways to get involved and make a difference.

Do you know of a group that should be added to this list? Please send us a message! We are always looking for new groups to work with.

• Art City www.artcityinc.com/ Art City is a not-for-profit art community centre in Winnipeg’s West Broadway area. We provide free of charge high-quality art programming for all ages, five days a week. Art City brings in local, national and international artists. We pride ourselves in our belief that visual art makes the world a better place. Our participants are the reason we exist. There is a space for art in every life, and every person deserves the artistic opportunity we offer, in a safe supportive environment. We foster self-expression, self-respect, and pride in one’s work.
• AYO! www.ayomovement.com/ AYO! (Aboriginal Youth Opportunities) is a youth movement from Winnipeg’s North End. We use relationships with organizations, media partners and businesses in order to empower each other. This group is simply young people volunteering and sharing their gifts with others, no paid staff, no building, no board of directors. We listen to the ideas of young people, plan them, and love them until they become reality. We are committed to helping our North End to heal and will work with those who share our vision to provide ABORIGINAL YOUTH with more OPPORTUNITIES!
• The Bike Dump bike-dump.ca The Bike Dump is a community-use bicycle repair shop in Winnipeg that makes cycling and bicycle repair knowledge accessible to everyone. We have tools and space to fix your bike, volunteers to help guide you through repairs and and a stock of recycled bike frames and parts. We offer creative alternatives to auto dependency and its consequences.
• Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba www.policyalternatives.ca/offices/manitoba The CCPA Manitoba was formed in 1997 to challenge the onslaught of neo-liberal policies in our province. We continue to have an impact on public discourse by offering Manitobans critical policy analysis, solid research and progressive policy alternatives. The Manitoba office has continued to publish regularly on a range of issues, with a particular emphasis on poverty and labour issues.
• Canadian Federation of Students (Manitoba) www.cfsmb.ca The Canadian Federation of Students was formed in 1981 to provide students with an effective and united voice, provincially and nationally. At the time, it was recognized that for students to be truly effective in representing their collective interests to the federal and provincial governments, it was vital to unite under one banner. Today, the Federation comprises more than 500,000 students from over 80 university and college students’ unions across the country. There are 5 member locals in Manitoba uniting over 42,000 part-time and full-time students.
• Communities Not Cuts www.cncmanitoba.ca A coalition of diverse individuals and groups in Manitoba. We are passionate about public services and concerned about the impact that provincial government cuts and policies are having in our communities. During times filled with information overload and mixed messages, it’s so important to stay informed with what’s really happening. CNC is dedicated to bringing you the facts about what’s going on in our provincial legislature and the true impacts of government decisions.
• CPAWS Manitoba cpawsmb.org The Manitoba Chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS Manitoba) has been a champion of wilderness and parks in the province since 1991. CPAWS Manitoba ensures that the voice of conservation is heard on issues affecting our parks and wilderness areas.
• Fair Trade Manitoba www.fairtrademanitoba.ca In 2006, Manitoba Council on International Cooperation became involved in the efforts of individuals and groups around the province to heighten Manitobans’ awareness of fair trade through Fair Trade Manitoba, now a program of MCIC. For Manitobans, purchasing fair trade products provides an opportunity to be active global citizens, where actions here in Manitoba can impact positively on the lives of farmers and artisans in the global South.
• Food Matters Manitoba www.foodmattersmanitoba.ca FMM is a registered charity dedicated to healthy, sustainable food for all. We cultivate community food skills, provide public education and build partnerships and networks. We are home to the Manitoba Food Charter.
• Green Action Centre greenactioncentre.ca Green Action Centre is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, based in Winnipeg and serving Manitoba. We are a registered charity, governed by an elected community board. We promote greener living through environmental education and encourage practical green solutions for homeowners, workplaces, schools and communities. Our primary areas of work are green commuting, composting and waste, sustainable living and resource conservation. Programs and outreach are supported by donations from individuals, grants from foundations and governments, and sponsorships.
• Groundwork for Change www.groundworkforchange.org Groundwork for Change was built to provide access to information to help non-Indigenous (settler) peoples grow relationships with Indigenous peoples that are rooted in justice and solidarity. This site is meant to support people who are asking questions and want to learn more in respectful and useful ways. Of course, learning shouldn’t only happen through a website, so this site also shares listings of events and initiatives that may help grow new relationships.
• Harvest Moon Society www.harvestmoonsociety.org Our mission is to develop a learning center that works toward strengthening and building linkages between urban and rural areas, empowering communities while creating strategies and infrastructure to sustain community and environment. Over the past ten years, the HMS has consulted and worked with local residents of Clearwater, Manitoba, to develop an action plan for long-term rural environmental and economic sustainability.
• Human Rights Hub Winnipeg humanrightshub.ca The Human Rights Hub provides a central space to coordinate and promote the events and activities of the many individuals and groups in Winnipeg taking action on human rights issues! The Hub focuses on local activities, but has a global outlook on issues.
• Make Poverty History Manitoba makepovertyhistorymb.com Make Poverty History Manitoba (MPHM) is a multi-sectoral collaborative coalition representing business, education, student, youth, Aboriginal, newcomer, labour, women’s, disability, urban, rural, and northern communities. The coalition’s efforts are directed primarily at the provincial level. However, its work contributes toward the achievement of Make Poverty History’s national campaign objectives.
• Manitoba Eco Network www.mbeconetwork.org Manitoba Eco-Network promotes positive environmental action by connecting people and groups in our communities. We are an umbrella for environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGO’s) throughout the province, welcoming individual, ENGO and associate members to our organization. We educate, we facilitate, we celebrate!
• Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition www.mbenergyjustice.org/ We are a coalition of individual Manitobans and community groups committed to defending the lands, air, and waters in Manitoba by working to reclaim and protect our environment and promote social justice in the energy sector. Our groups work independently on many issues, and we come together through this coalition to advance a shared vision and mission related to eliminating fossil fuels, protecting watersheds, and promoting resource equity in Manitoba. We are committed to working in solidarity with other front line communities directly impacted by fossil fuels. We are based in Winnipeg, Manitoba/Treaty 1 territory.
• Manitoba Wildlands www.manitobawildlands.org/ Manitoba Wildlands is a non-profit environmental and public research organization. We work with communities, industry sectors, and environmental organizations for the future of Manitoba’s lands and waters. We support establishment of protected areas in Manitoba, with a special focus on our boreal forest regions. We provide information about decisions for use of crown (public) lands and water; technical information about lands use decisions. Often this web site provides hard to find government information, or documents that are not posted elsewhere.
• Migrante Manitoba www.facebook.com/MigranteManitoba A community organization that advocates for the rights and welfare of migrants. This page features articles and public events highlighting the stories of migrants.
• Right to Housing righttohousing.ca Right to Housing is a Winnipeg-based coalition of 120 individuals and 33 organizations working together to address the current housing crisis and the chronic need for social housing. We promote and lobby for safe, quality social housing (where rent is geared to income) and housing policy solutions on a local, provincial and national level as part of a comprehensive strategy to eliminate poverty.
• University of Winnipeg Cinema Politica www.cinemapolitica.org/uofwinnipeg Gallery 1C03 and the University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) are pleased to join the Cinema Politica network though the formation of “Cinema Politica at The University of Winnipeg. Our aim is to engage with students and the public in ways that encourage informed citizenry through creative and critical thinking. Through the presentation and discussion of these films, we hope to grow our relationships with students, faculty, and staff on campus, as well as citizens of Winnipeg at large. Let’s watch films about issues that matter to us, then talk about and plan actions we can take to make the world a more equitable and sustainable place for everyone.
• Wilderness Committee – Manitoba Field Office wildernesscommittee.org/manitoba Since 1999 Wilderness Committee staff have been on the ground in Manitoba, pushing for protection of wild spaces, wild species, and healthy communities. Our first campaign in Manitoba was to end logging in provincial parks, which we had success within 2008 when all but one Manitoba Park banned logging. We continue to press for an end to mining and all industrial activity in provincial parks.
• Winnipeg Labour Council winnipeglabour.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.