Making Changes Association
Make an Exponential Impact by Empowering women
Destroy the barriers holding women and teen girls back in your community by supporting dignity-centred programs that help break cycles of poverty, strengthen local workplaces, and create lasting change across Calgary.
Ready for Change? We're Here to Help
Making Changes provides no-cost programs for women and teen girls in Calgary seeking workforce preparation, professional clothing, skills training, and leadership development.
Calgary Is Losing Brilliant Women To Solvable Problems
When mothers can't return to work, survivors can't leave unsafe situations, and newcomers can't integrate, families suffer and communities lose contributors.
Making Changes provides the hand up women need to overcome these challenges and make Calgary a better place.
Programs for Sustainable Transformation
For Women
We help women gain financial independence through
comprehensive workforce preparation programs that
remove the barriers preventing them from achieving
more for themselves, their families, and their
communities.
For Teen Girls
We support teen girls by providing the tools, guidance,
and confidence they need to navigate their education,
careers, and personal growth.
Dress for Success Calgary
Professional clothing and workforce preparation for
women entering or re-entering employment.
Women in Technology
Six-month intensive training removing barriers to entry
in male-dominated tech sectors.
My Best Friend's Closet
Stylish clothing and increased confidence for
low-income teen girls.
Basic Digital Skills
Essential digital literacy for women new to navigating
Canadian systems.
GREAT Program
Leadership development teaches teen girls they belong
in rooms where decisions get made.
Basic Digital Skills for Work & Learning
Practical digital skills to navigate everyday
tasks with confidence.
The Exponential Impact Your Help Creates
Our integrated approach creates sustainable transformations in which each woman and teen girl helped by Making Changes becomes someone who lifts others, extending your investment far beyond the initial contribution.
Why Making Changes
Employment & Economic Gains
Create measurable results for women securing employment and achieving financial stability.
Generational Poverty Broken
Help women create different outcomes for their children, breaking cycles that have trapped families for generations.
Workforce Diversity
Help Calgary employers access qualified diverse talent while addressing gender gaps in male-dominated industries.
Community Social Capital
Fund engaged community members who volunteer, mentor, and strengthen Calgary.
Family Stability
Enable women to adequately house and feed their families, creating stable environments where children thrive.
Lasting Legacy
Strengthen Calgary for generations by creating a legacy that extends far beyond your lifetime.
Personal Fulfillment
Create a sense of purpose, meeting the deep human need to contribute meaningfully beyond personal success.
Exponential Transformation
Start the ripple effect that will unlock potential for women across generations and communities.
See What Your Investments Create
Women achieving financial independence. Teens discovering their voices. Mothers creating different outcomes for children. This is the sustainable transformation your support funds.
see your impact
READ Kelly'S STORY
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How You Can Help
Choose the pathway that fits your capacity. Monthly giving, one-time support, transformational funding, and hands-on involvement all contribute to creating exponential impact in the lives of women, their families, and our communities.
Give Monthly
Create predictable impact in your
community with ongoing support.
Provide a One-Time Gift
Contribute at any level, any time. Your support funds
everything from interview clothing to tech training.
A Donation of Any Size Provides Direct Support
Support Making Changes In Other Ways
Donation Drop-Off
Donate quality clothing and professional items that help women present themselves confidently in interviews and workplaces.
Community Clothing Drives
Organize a drive that fills wardrobes while building awareness of women's barriers in your network.
Host A Fundraiser
Create community connection while raising funds that remove barriers preventing women's success.
Why Supporters Choose Making Changes
Donors, volunteers, and corporate partners choose Making Changes because their support creates real transformation, measurable outcomes, and visible impact in the community where they live and work.
why making changes
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READ Alanna'S STORY
Our Partners & Supporters
Thank you for your generosity and commitment, which made our programs possible, as reflected in our Annual Report 2025–2026.
Join the local businesses and national organizations investing in women's economic empowerment.