Acorn Canada

CORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) Canada is an independent national organization of low- and moderate-income families. They have over 70,000 members organized into twenty neighbourhood chapters in nine cities across Canada. They believe that social and economic justice can best be achieved with a national active membership who are invested in their organization and focused on building power for change! Since 2004 Their members have won several important victories including: Provincial Payday Lending legislation in Ontario and BC, and working in coalition to raise the Minimum Wage in Ontario to $11/hour plus indexing to inflation. Other national and provincial campaigns: Remittance Justice, Digital Access to Opportunities, Healthy Homes and Disability and Social Assistance Rights. All of They offices offer free tax preparation services.

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