SeeChange is driven by the principles of humanity and solidarity

Meaningful and lasting change will be led by communities addressing health crises their way with solutions that work for them.

Impact Report

Our Transition: From Charity to Community-First Consultancy

A shift in structure, not purpose.
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Founded in 2018 as a social purpose organization in Canada, SeeChange Initiative supports communities to tackle their health challenges, their way. Grounded in community-led, equity-driven approaches, our work includes long-standing partnerships with Inuit communities and organizations in Nunavut to support TB awareness and prevention, youth wellbeing, and locally defined health initiatives in Canada and globally.

After years of consistent challenges securing sustainable, aligned, and multi-year funding within the charitable sector, SeeChange is transitioning in 2025 to a non-profit, partnership-based consultancy model and will voluntarily revoke its Canadian charitable status and U.S. 501(c)(3) status. This shift reflects a change in structure — not in purpose. It allows us to continue supporting communities in ways that are values-aligned, responsive, and accountable, without the growing constraints and administrative burdens of charitable donation requirements. We remain deeply grateful to our past donors and partners for the trust, collaboration, and impact we have shared, and we look forward to continuing this work through new and evolving partnerships.

2 children biking down a road in the winter

Our Theory of Change

People and communities are humanitarian actors. By designing and leading the response to their own health crises, with the right support they become agents of change. Because lasting and meaningful crisis response occurs when solutions originate inside communities - not outside.

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2018

SeeChange Emerges: A (Re)newed Vision of Humanitarian Action

SeeChange is founded to respond to the tuberculosis epidemic facing Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic. Given the impacts of colonialism, SeeChange learns that communities must own and lead their health crisis responses for them to be effective and sustainable.

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2019

TB Community Workshops in Nunavut begin

SeeChange partners with Ilisaqsivik Society, an Inuit-led organization working on Inuit mental health in Clyde River. Together we co-design trauma-informed TB workshops. Inuit Elders gain agency in their health and wellness.

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2020

CommunityFirst COVID-19 Roadmap created

Co-designed with Ilisaqsivik Society and the Hamlet of Clyde River, SeeChange’s Community First COVID-19 Roadmap supports vulnerabilised communities to organize, prepare, and respond to COVID-19. Curated by medical experts, we translate the Roadmap into 6 languages including Inuktitut, Spanish and Swahili.

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2021

Communities Responding to COVID-19

We accompany 12 communities globally as they work with the CommunityFirst COVID-19 Roadmap. Over 300 community leaders are trained with the Roadmap and it has been accessed in over 100 countries. Communities can access verified and updated information as well as community-facing materials.

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2022

SeeChange partners with humanitarian organisation

SeeChange partners with Médecins Sans Frontières /Doctors without Borders (MSF) Latin America to pilot the CommunityFirst framework and involve communities in each phase of MSF's project cycle. We have pilot projects in Peru and Sierra Leone.