Resources

This list is updated once in a while. Keep checking it for new adds, and suggest new items to go on this list!

Updated June 4, 2011.

Blogs

• Al Hsu’s The Suburban Christian
• Empire Remixed
• Mission: Help the Homeless – Project417
• Spread the Word green ideas for design and beyond
• subtext

Books

• The Irresistible Revolution, Shane Claiborne
• Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life, Robert Lupton
• Justice in the Burbs, Will and Lisa Samson
• Punk Monk, Andy Freeman and Pete Grieg
• The Suburban Christian, Albert Hsu

Donations (mainly Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area)

• Children’s Book Bank – Drop off your gently used, high quality children’s books with them, and these will be given to children who visit the library. They don’t take young adult or adult books, text books, magazines, damaged books or books published more than 10 years ago.
• Hakim Optical – Partnering with Lions Club International, Hakim will donate used glasses to people in the developing world.
• Let The Sneakers Walk Again - Donate your new or gently used sneakers to people in Haiti.

Magazines

• Geez Magazine
• Good Magazine

Organizations

• Daily Bread Food Bank: fighting hunger in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area
• Habitat for Humanity Canada: ensuring safe housing for everyone around the world
• International Justice Mission Canada: “a human rights agency that rescues victims of violence, sexual exploitation, slavery, and oppression”
• Kiva: “Loans that change lives” (providing microloans to small business entrepreneurs in areas of poverty)
• MoveIn: “MoveIn is about copying Jesus’ example (Phil. 2:5-7) by literally moving in to the neighbourhood.”
• Toronto City Mission: “demonstrates Gods love in tangible ways by living among the families of our city’s poor communities, and partnering with others to achieve positive change”
• Yonge Street Mission: “Building a better Toronto, one person at a time”
• Youth Unlimited: ”Bringing Positive Change to the Communities of the GTA one young person at a time”

Videos

• TED Talks: Rethinking Poverty

Other

• Exploring the Neighbourhood: A list of questions to help you observe the neighbourhood of your choice so that you can get to know it better.