Nonprofit Organizations in Kingston

Arts, Culture & Heritage

Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston

Nonprofit

The Marine Museum of the Great Lakes is on a mission to connect the public with the maritime heritage of Kingston and the Great Lakes through programs, exhibits and collections. Our history is intimately entwined with the space we inhabit. The Marine Museum of the Great Lakes is fortunate to be located on a national historic site that forms a considerable part of the Museum’s narrative.  It means that the Museum is able to at once share the story of the maritime heritage of Kingston and the Great Lakes, all the while connecting visitors to a physical piece of that history. Established in 1975 by a group of local divers who sought to protect the artefacts of the shipwrecks they explored, the Museum occupied the Kingston Dry Dock property (formerly the location of the Kingston Shipyards Co.) from 1975-2016. The Museum was forced to vacate the property in 2016 when the federally-owned property was sold to a local developer, and moved to its storefront gallery location at Portsmouth Olympic Harbour where it currently resides. In August 2019, the Marine Museum purchased the historic property following a gift from a local benefactor, and in October 2021 it moved back home. This set in motion an opportunity to makes our plans to create a new 21st century Museum a reality. We invite you to read our vision for the new museum in our new 2020-2025 Strategic Plan, Steering Into the Future.  

Kingston

Joined Dec 12, 2025

Social & Community Services

Outreach St. George's Kingston - Lunch by George

Nonprofit

Outreach St. George’s Kingston (OSGK) was established in 1997 as an independent, non-profit and secular organization to: - co-ordinate resources to provide food and clothing to the poor, and - extend financial support to charitable agencies that serve children and/or abused women in the City of Kingston. The Lunch Program has been its principal activity in recent years, but OSGK has also coordinated the financial support for a refugee family that settled in Kingston in 2003.

Kingston

Joined Dec 12, 2025

Social & Community Services

Lasagna Love

Nonprofit

WHO WE ARE Lasagna Love is a global nonprofit and grassroots movement that aims to positively impact communities by connecting neighbors with neighbors through homemade meal delivery. We also seek to eliminate stigmas associated with asking for help when it is needed most. Our mission is simple: feed families, spread kindness, and strengthen communities. Our Mission Lasagna Love was started at the beginning of the pandemic when the founder of Good to Mama was looking for a way to help moms in her community. She and her toddler started making and delivering meals to families in the neighborhood who were struggling, whether that struggle was financial, emotional, or simply a feeling of overwhelm. Lasagna Love has since grown into an international movement, with thousands of people all cooking and delivering meals to families in their communities. What we do is simple: feed families, spread kindness, and strengthen communities. Our mission is not only to help address the incredible rise in food insecurity among families but also to provide a simple act of love and kindness during a time full of uncertainty and stress. We are seeking Lasagna Chefs (LC)! What is a Lasagna Chef (LC)? This is you, our wonderful team of volunteers who answer the call every week to provide meals to people who request. Sign up for a completely flexible volunteer opportunity that is done on your schedule. You can sign up to deliver one time or as often as you'd like!

Kingston

Joined Dec 12, 2025

Development & Housing

Habitat for Humanity Kingston Limestone Region

Nonprofit

Founded in 1994, Habitat for Humanity Kingston Limestone Region is a charitable organization working toward a world where everyone has a safe and decent place to live. Our mission is to bring communities together to help families build strength, stability and independence through affordable homeownership in the Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox & Addington area. With the help of many volunteers, the organization has been able to place 25 families with safe, decent and affordable homeownership.

Kingston

Joined Dec 12, 2025

Social & Community Services

Concerned Friends of Ontario Citizens in Care Facilities

Nonprofit

Established in 1980, Concerned Friends, a registered charity has been active across Ontario communities for over 40 years. Representing a vibrant and growing community we are committed to our mission: to advance the health and well-being and enrich the experiences of those living in long-term care homes across Ontario.

Kingston

Joined Dec 12, 2025

Arts, Culture & Heritage

Kingston Women's Art Festival

Nonprofit

The Kingston Women’s Art Festival is run entirely by the dedication of its enthusiastic volunteers. The success of the Festival depends on many hard working hands. Every year, our volunteers help with such things as registration on the morning of the event, the silent auction throughout the day, and offering assistance to booths to give our wonderful artists washroom breaks and time to eat, to name a few.

Kingston

Joined Dec 12, 2025

Social & Community Services

Rotary Club of Cataraqui-Kingston

Nonprofit

Our Club is part of a global network that endeavors to build a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. We are a non-political and non-religious group that strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture. We value the uniqueness of every individual regardless of age, size, ability, race, ethnicity, faith, socio-economic status, immigration status, sexual orientation, and gender expression and identity. CK Rotary has a long history of responding to the needs of our community by awarding grants and providing volunteer service to other charitable organizations in the greater Kingston area that share our goals and core values. We welcome individuals who are looking for opportunities to improve our community today while investing in a better future for the generation of tomorrow. We believe that caring for and serving others is the best way to live because it not only changes the lives of others, but also changes our own. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” (Margaret Mead)  

Kingston

Joined Dec 12, 2025

Social & Community Services

The Birds, Bees, and Butterflies Program

Nonprofit

The 3B Program is an inclusive gardening skills based program for Teens and Adults with exceptionalities, living in Kingston Ontario. This program is run through community cooperation and support. Volunteers are crucial to the success of the program as each participant is partnered with a volunteer support. Over the course of the summer, everyone will have the chance to learn new skills and make new friends. This is a great opportunity for those who are looking to fulfill high school volunteer hours or for adults looking to connect with community. The 3B program runs 9am-2:30pm, every Thursday and Friday throughout the summer. The program is located at the Lakeside Community Garden, 670 Front Rd, Kingston

Kingston

Joined Dec 12, 2025

Other Nonprofit

Well Suited

Nonprofit

We are looking for volunteers to spend a hour fitting a client with clothes. For work, job interview, wedding, get some new threads or whatever reason. We take donations of gently used clothes that we fit to men. The Mission for Well Suited Kingston is to promote the economic independence of men in need, by providing suitable attire, career development tools and essential life-skills helping them enter the workforce, stay employed and become community role models

Kingston

Joined Dec 12, 2025

Other Nonprofit

Normandy Retirement Resident Charitable Foundation

Nonprofit

Our residents at Normandy Retirement make different size quilts for non profit groups who are in need.

Kingston

Joined Dec 12, 2025

Social & Community Services

Limestone Century Bicycle Tour

Nonprofit

The Limestone Century is an annual event operated by Cycle Kingston. Cycle Kingston, Inc., is a registered Canadian charitable organization and incorporated non-profit whose mandate is to provide safe cycling education and cycling skills training in Kingston, Ontario, so that citizens will gain competence and confidence, and will become empowered to choose cycling as a personal means of transportation. Cycling offers many benefits: health, well-being, environmental, economic, social, and more. The Limestone Century Bicycle Tour requires 3 - 4 months of planning, culminating the the ride on the 2nd Sunday of September each year. Funds raised support Cycle Kingston in their community cycling initiatives, and also supports operation of its social enterprises, Gear Up! Recycled Bicycles and Bicycle Valet Kingston. As a wholly volunteer-driven organization, we rely on volunteer service, support and energy.

Kingston

Joined Dec 12, 2025

Health & Medical

Transplant Advocate Association

Nonprofit

The Transplant Advocate Association is a registered charity dedicated to providing support, knowledge and encouragement to those touched by organ and/or tissue transplantation and to inform the public about the need and benefits of organ and tissue donation.  This is accomplished by holding regular group chats and events for our members, providing financial support through fundraising raising and by promoting organ and tissue donation through advertising and at public events throughout our area .

Kingston

Joined Dec 12, 2025