When we thought about how best to celebrate our 20th anniversary, we couldn\u2019t think of a better way than to celebrate the charities we work with each day. After all, supporting charities is why CanadaHelps exists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Our CEO, Marina, and I tossed around a few different ideas of what celebrating charities could look like. Was this a book? Was it a podcast?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the end, we settled on a film series as the best way to show the importance of charitable work. This was partly because it is hard to find films online that showcase work, as most are created for specific fundraising purposes. In addition, we wanted to use this as an opportunity to reach out to a broad, young, online audience to build engagement with the sector. Much is said about young people\u2019s relationship with charitable giving (in our own Giving Report, we note that younger generations are giving less) but we both know it is not because young people are disengaged with causes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The next challenge was figuring which charities to feature from a pool of 86,000 in Canada, all doing such varied and important work. In the end, we decided to use the environment as our focus, and as a thread that could tie so many stories together.\u00a0 As so many around the world are coming to terms with as of late, the environment is one of the defining issues of our time. It also touches so many things, as you\u2019ll see in these films \u2014 animals, food security, land use, mental health, culture, and so much more.<\/span><\/p>\n