2024 Beneficiaries
Each year the Pride and Remembrance Association selects community charities who receive the charitable pledges. Since 1996, the pride & remembrance run has raised over $3 million for charities.
AndThenIWasFree (ATIWF)
Our vision is to create a world where everyone is free to live authentically. Our mission is rooted in addressing systemic barriers and issues that persist in the LGBTQ2S+ community and providing support for youth and those who need it most. Through our work, we strive to dismantle the pervasive barriers of discrimination, violence, inadequate resources, limited access to mental health and addiction support, and the complex intersectionality of these challenges. We are dedicated to preserving and enhancing our community by sharing personal stories, fostering vulnerability, and carving out inclusive spaces where everyone's visibility is respected. Through accessible resources tailored to diverse identities, we aim to address the gaps in support and strive to create a society where everyone is free to live as their authentic selves.
Project name: Critical Support for Two-Spirit and Trans Youth
AndThenIWasFree’s project, Critical Support for Two-Spirit and Trans Youth, will include interactive workshops and support groups for Indigenous Two-Spirit youth that incorporate Indigenous culture and teachings as well as discussions around lateral violence. Additionally, we will run workshops and support groups to support the unique challenges and shared experiences of Trans and Nonbinary youth. We will deliver inclusivity and anti-bullying workshops for middle and high-school students, and conduct Trans and Two-Spirit training and sensitivity workshops for educators. Through our project, we’ll foster a community that celebrates diversity, empowers individuals, and amplifies the voices of Trans and Two-Spirit youth.
Durham Alliance Outreach (DAO)
Durham Alliance Outreach is dedicated to empowering individuals and fostering inclusive communities through education and support. We provide transformative workshops and lectures focusing on essential life skills like self-esteem, confidence, and communication, particularly catering to the 2SLGBTQI+ community in Durham. Our vision is to create a society where everyone feels accepted and supported, promoting personal growth, resilience, and overall well-being within our vibrant community.
Project name: pride & remembrance run Feeds Durham
The proposed project by Durham Alliance Outreach (DAO) aims to enhance support for the 2SLGBTQI+ community in the Durham Region through the implementation of the DAO Pantry and Mental Health Calming Kits. The initiative seeks to address immediate needs by providing essential food items and hygiene products while promoting community, resilience, and mental well-being. By offering nutritious pantry items and stress-relief tools, the project aims to improve food security, enhance community connection, positively impact mental well-being, increase awareness of support resources, and measure reductions in stress levels, ultimately creating a holistic support system for the community.
Rainbow Faith and Freedom (RFF)
RFF is a multi-faith Movement to secure inclusion and affirmation for 2SLGBTQI+ people around the world by ending religious-based homophobia and transphobia. We believe a person’s religious beliefs are part of their intersectional identity. And so, if religious-based homophobia and transphobia is not directly confronted, the world will remain an unsafe space for 2SLGBTQI+ folks. A religious problem requires a religious response.
Project name: The Congress of Gay-Straight Alliances of Religious-based Schools
The Congress of Gay-Straight Alliances of Religious-based Schools will establish a network and congress of gay-straight alliances in religious-based schools. GSAs have been the subject of religious-based homophobia and transphobia, and teachers, administrators, parents, and educational leaders in faith-based education institutions have continued to weaponize faith to justify this hate. RFF can provide education, resources, and support to organize GSAs in religious-based institutions across Ontario and Canada to help them confront and challenge their homophobic and transphobic teachers, administrators, parents, and educational leaders to ensure their schools are safe for everyone to be their authentic selves.
Toronto People with AIDS Foundation (Toronto PWA)
The Toronto People With AIDS Foundation (PWA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging people living with HIV/AIDS in enhancing their health and well-being through practical and therapeutic support services and broader social change and inspiring them to live into their dreams and discoveries. Services provided by the PWA include housing support, financial assistance, healthcare and wellness programs, advocacy and education and community outreach.
Project: POZ Community Kitchen
The POZ Community Kitchen project intends to create a safe and sustainable space for 2SLGBTQ+ HIV-positive people to meet their basic needs in a low/no barrier environment, which provides a hot daily meal with wrap around services and support, as well as a place of respite for houseless and under housed individuals. This by-and-for program leverages the energy and talents of our community members to prepare and serve a meal together, in a positive kitchen environment.
Pride and Remembrance Foundation
Established in 2010 by the Pride and Remembrance Association, the Pride and Remembrance Foundation (PRF) serves as the charitable arm of the pride and remembrance run. The Foundation's mandate is to provide financial support to registered charities in Canada that benefit the LGBTQ+ community. These may include individual projects, services and/or activities that provide health, educational, legal, social, athletic, cultural or other charitable benefits.
past beneficiaries include
AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT)
Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS)
Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention (Black CAP)
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Buddies)
Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity, Ottawa
Casey House
EGALE Canada Human Rights Trust
Fife House
Food for Life
Get REAL Movement
HIV and AIDS Legal Clinic of Ontario
Inside Out
Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto
PFLAG Toronto
People with AIDS Foundation
Rainbow Faith and Freedom
Rainbow Railroad
Sherbourne Health
Supporting Our Youth
Singing Out
The 519 Church Street Community Centre
The AIDS Memorial
The ArQuives (formerly, the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives)
The David Kelley Lesbian and Gay Community Counselling Program, Family Service Association of Toronto
The Gilbert Centre
The Stephen Lewis Foundation
Triangle Program of the Toronto District School Board
Women’s College Hospital – Transition-Related Surgery Compassionate Fund
Youthline