Client Stories

Sharing Money Experiences

SEED’s Saving Circle Program provides an opportunity for low-income Winnipeggers to save for an asset they need. Their savings are matched at a rate of 3 to 1 towards its purchase. Completion of the Saving Circle Program enabled Kenneth Savage to purchase a new bed, a new computer and an apartment-size freezer.

Building Inclusion

Visual artist Susan Gibson creates inspirational pieces around the theme of disabilities. But Gibson’s theme for her Art and Text Inspirational Products line also includes visual representations and text of the values and concepts explored in her Respectful Workplace and Valuing Diversity consulting and training.

Extending a Hand Up

“I am very grateful that I was one of the chosen few to benefit from such a great program,” says Jose Navida. “The staff was a great help, they were accommodating and considerate. They taught my wife and me how to manage our finances and save towards my education.”

A Passion for Plant-based Food

Client: Orange Lily Raw Foods and Catering

Orange Lily Raw Foods and Catering is her Winnipeg based company, offering catering, classes, and food products to promote healthy eating through the incorporation of raw plant-based foods into one’s everyday lifestyle while being environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable.

A Deeper Sense of Community

Client: L’Arche Café

Operating in 40 countries worldwide, L’Arche works with the developmentally disabled in the interest of each person playing his or her full role in society. L’Arche Café will offer fair trade tea and coffee, and internationally inspired meals. The café will provide meaningful employment for people with developmental disabilities, and enable the public to interact with and get to know them.

Diversity Foods - A Model of Sustainability

Client: Diversity Food Services

Created to provide local, organic, and healthy food options, Diversity Food Services celebrates its two-year anniversary this year. The joint venture between SEED Winnipeg and the University of Winnipeg Community Renewal Corporation is a social enterprise providing quality jobs for immigrants, newcomers and aboriginal people.

Good Things Come To Those Who Dream and Dare

Client: cre8ery

Shawn Berard, along with his partner Jordan Miller, developed a warehouse space into an 8,800 square foot creative entity known as cre8ery, that today boasts 26 artists sharing studio space, two separate galleries and a classroom area to run workshops and a sketch night.

Greening Winnipeg’s Urban Spaces

Client: Urban Eatin’ Gardeners Co-op

Paolo Riva and Naomi Audia are two of the four founders of Urban Eatin’ Gardeners Co-op, a group of food growers and educators who grow edible things and help others do the same. They offer a variety of services to help develop your yard into a paradise of organic herbs, vegetables and fruit.