GRIT Week Community Videos
The final vote: choose the winning story of impact!
After a week of powerful stories and incredible community efforts, we’ve learned who’s taken home all the prizes. Congratulations! We’re proud of every single GRIT Week participant. You are all champions of change.
Winning teams
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Birthday Wonders
Mission
To improve and support the mental and emotional well-being of children living in homeless shelters by providing memorable personalized birthday parties and experiences and to relieve poverty by providing basic necessities of life.
City of Burlington, Parks and Recreation
Mission
The Neighbourhood Community Matching Fund provides support for community groups to build community and neighbourhood connections while enhancing parks or other public spaces.
City of Hamilton Fire Services
The Hamilton Fire Department operates out of 30 locations across the city with 26 emergency response stations made up of either full-time or volunteer firefighters.
Flamborough Connects
Mission
Flamborough Connects empowers residents through information and referral services and enhances community quality of life by identifying unmet needs and facilitating social services.
Food4Kids Halton
Mission
To provide packages of healthy food for elementary school students with little or no access to food during the weekend and throughout the summer.
Halton Multicultural Council Connections
Mission
Halton Multicultural Council Connections helps newcomers settle and integrate into a welcoming and inclusive community
Hamilton Community Benefits Network
Mission
The Hamilton Community Benefits Network envisions Hamilton as an inclusive, thriving city in which all residents have equitable opportunities to contribute to building healthy communities and a prospering economy. Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) are a proven approach to achieve this vision.
Immigrant Idea & Innovation Center
Mission
As fellow immigrant entrepreneurs, we understand the unique challenges of building businesses in new environments. Our center provides hope and guidance, helping immigrant entrepreneurs turn their ideas into thriving enterprises. Our dedicated goals and principles guide our mission and shape our vision for the future, emphasizing excellence, sustainability, and innovation in Triple IC: Competence, Consistency, Connections, Compassion, Innovation, Community, Change, Integrity, Culture.
Lighthouse for Grieving Children
Mission
To help children, youth and their families who are grieving a death, find a sense of belonging, connection and understanding from others experiencing a similar loss.
Micah House
Mission
Micah House welcomes newly arrived refugee claimants to Hamilton with God’s love by providing safe shelter, assisting with settlement and creating passages into the community. We will seek to expand and develop the funding and programming of the ministry in order to meet the needs of as many refugees as we can responsibly manage. Our goal is to leverage our expertise to educate the community about immigration, refugees, and systemic injustice.
New Hope Community Bikes, Bike Shop
Mission
New Hope Community Bikes is a learning hub for building and repairing bikes, offering safe cycling education, providing access to affordable transportation, and fostering a rich and inclusive cycling community.
New Hope Community Bikes, RideSmart
Mission
New Hope Community Bikes is a learning hub for building and repairing bikes, offering safe cycling education, providing access to affordable transportation, and fostering a rich and inclusive cycling community.
Shifra Homes
Mission
Shifra Homes’ vision is to provide a safe haven and an empowering environment that promotes dignity and a sense of hope for young, homeless pregnant women. We aim to provide support and resources, and to protect and nurture new life.
StartOut
Mission
Our mission is to increase opportunity and success for LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs.
The Suicide Prevention Community Council of Hamilton
Mission
To offer hope and help to the community by providing suicide prevention leadership focusing on: Education, training and community awareness, stigma reduction, advocacy, and agency collaboration.
Warm Hearts of Africa
Mission
By leveraging the opportunities that education can bring, we help Malawians help themselves.
YWCA Hamilton, AI
Mission
YWCA Hamilton provides meaningful, accessible services to create opportunities, amplify voices, and co-create gender inclusive and equitable communities.
YWCA Hamilton, Health Clinic
Mission
YWCA Hamilton provides meaningful, accessible services to create opportunities, amplify voices, and co-create gender inclusive and equitable communities.