Alongside Hope (PWRDF) works with a variety of other agencies to fulfill its mission. While it is an Anglican organization, it works with ecumenical and secular groups as well as other Anglican groups in its work to help bring about a truly healthy, just, and peaceful world. Below are some of the organizations we work with.
ACT Alliance comprises 143 churches and church-related organizations that work together in humanitarian assistance and development. Through our membership in ACT, Alongside Hope is able to respond to disasters and relief efforts around the world.
Though Alongside Hope is an autonomous international development agency, it remains closely linked with the membership, policies and procedures, structures of the Anglican Church of Canada, where the Fund originated.
The Anglican Alliance brings together those in the Anglican family of churches and agencies around the world to work for a world free of poverty and injustice, to be a voice for the voiceless, to reconcile those in conflict, and to safeguard the Earth.
The Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR) is a non-profit umbrella organization, committed to the rights and protection of refugees in Canada and around the world, and to the settlement of refugees and immigrants in Canada.
The Canadian Foodgrains Bank was established in 1983 as a Canadian-based Christian organization that provides food and development assistance to people in need on behalf of Canadian churches, including Alongside Hope and The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace. Today, Canadian Foodgrains Bank is one of the largest private food aid providers in the world. Donations made by Canadians have helped Canadian Foodgrains Bank and its members provide over 1,000,000 metric tonnes of food to people who are hungry throughout the world. These funds are matched 4 to 1 from the government of Canada.
The Canadian Ecumenical Anti-Racism Network (CEARN) is an expression of Canadian churches working together to support anti-racism programs and educators who are working in member churches of the Canadian Council of Churches, sharing resources and learning among anti-racism educators, and supporting long-term change in Canadian churches and church organizations.
Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health (CanWaCh) is a collaboration of over 80 organizations working to save the lives of the most vulnerable women, newborns and children in over 1000 communities globally.
The Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance is an international network of churches and church-related organizations committed to campaigning together on common concerns. Current campaigns focus on HIV and AIDS and Food.
Imagine Canada is a national charitable organization which supports and strengthens charities and nonprofits by strengthening the sector’s collective voice, acting as a forum and meeting place, and creating an enabling environment in which organizations like Alongside Hope can contribute to building stronger communities.
In 2001, from a rich global heritage and a hopeful Canadian tradition, Canadian churches and religious organizations formed KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives. A faithful and decisive response to God’s call for respect for the earth and justice for its people,.
Oikocredit is a world-wide ecumenical co-operative society of churches and individuals whose purpose is to mobilize financial resources for further development of poor areas of the world. Oikocredit provides loans for small groups or individuals for whom, in our global economy, credit is often very expensive. These loans finance small projects: a sewing machine to start a new shop; poultry to provide eggs to sell; machinery for processing crops.
Alongside Hope supports the work of the World Council of Churches and has been active as a member of the Heads of Agencies (HOAN) consultative group of donor agencies.