Northpine Foundation
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NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

Ruah

January 25, 2026

Mental Health Support for Rural, Remote Newfoundland and Labrador

Rural Newfoundland and Labrador faces tough mental health realities with longer wait times for counselling, higher self-harm risks, and fewer local professionals, leaving many without timely help when they need it most.

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SpacesShared
January 31, 2026

Connecting Seniors’ Spare Rooms with Young Adults in Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador is home to Canada's highest share of seniors, alongside tight rental markets that make stable housing tough for students and young adults.

Thrive
January 31, 2026

Fighting Human Trafficking in Newfoundland and Labrador

Human trafficking remains one of Canada’s most underreported and misunderstood crimes. Newfoundland and Labrador faces its own unique challenges

Ruah
January 25, 2026

Mental Health Support for Rural, Remote Newfoundland and Labrador

Rural Newfoundland and Labrador faces tough mental health realities with longer wait times for counselling, higher self-harm risks, and fewer local professionals, leaving many without timely help when they need it most.

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Even as it absorbed decades of challenges, Newfoundland and Labrador has given Canada its most distinct culture, its storied coastlines, and some of its most resilient communities. Canada has not always given back in kind.

$35.1 M

invested across

49

organizations

254

newcomers supported into employment

7721

medical travel arrangements

778

people with improved literacy and numeracy

About This Portfolio

Newfoundland and Labrador is a province of extraordinary character and real, structural challenges. Decades of complex economic challenges, and the steady loss of young people to other provinces have left communities, particularly rural ones, facing interconnected challenges that compound over time. Housing insecurity, limited employment pathways, gaps in education and youth development, and pressure on already strained health systems coexist, feeding off each other to create conditions that restrict opportunities for the people who call this province home.

We invest here because we believe these challenges are solvable, and because the organizations already working on them have demonstrated that the right approach, properly supported, can influence outcomes at a provincial scale.

Our Investees

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Impact Team

We are a small, dedicated team of people, with our impact leaders embedded in the areas they serve, working to change what's possible for our communities across Canada.

Our Approach

We invest in organizations working across education, employment, permanently affordable housing and the conditions that determine whether people can live well. Organizations who have taken on these challenges in the province or elsewhere and understand how deeply they are connected and are building solutions designed to last. We back solutions designed to be adopted by governments, replicated by institutions, and sustained by communities long after Northpine has moved on.

What We Fund

  • Permanently affordable housing models that deliver long-term stability and reduce homelessness
  • Employment pathways for underserved communities and people disconnected from education or work
  • Education and youth development initiatives that re-engage young people and build long-term career readiness
  • Community-based health and food security programs that improve wellbeing and reduce pressure on the healthcare system
  • Integrated approaches that work across housing, employment, education and health
  • Proven models from other jurisdictions, adapted for Newfoundland and Labrador’s unique urban, rural and remote communities
  • Non-profits, charities and for-profits at any stage, with clear measurable evidence of impact

Investee Highlights

Browse updates and media coverage of our investee partners, showcasing their work and impact.

SpacesShared Hoping to Match Students with Seniors Living at Home

April 7, 2026

SpacesShared Hoping to Match Students with Seniors Living at Home

An initiative that pairs students looking for affordable housing with seniors who have space to share is relaunching in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Major Donation to Help Ruah Counselling Reach Rural, Remote Areas

February 15, 2026

Major Donation to Help Ruah Counselling Reach Rural, Remote Areas

A non-profit community counselling agency is expanding its services thanks to a major donation from the Northpine Foundation.

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February 10, 2026

Hope Air provides record support in Newfoundland & Labrador, surpassing 3,406 travel arrangements in 2025

Newfoundland Labrador (Feb 10, 2026) – Hope Air announces record-breaking 2025 impact results in the province. In 2025, Hope Air supported 896 patient and escort trips for Newfoundlanders & Labradorians, representing 3406 medical travel arrangements.

Gathering Place ED Colin McNeil Struck by Impact of Facility on Province's Most Vulnerable

January 22, 2026

Province’s Most Vulnerable

The new executive director of the Gathering Place says he’s been struck by the impact the work happening there is having on some of the province’s most vulnerable people.

Our table

January 23, 2026

Community food space ‘Our Table’ opens in Pleasantville

It was a day of celebration in the Pleasantville neighbourhood of St. John’s today. Accessing food just got a little easier with the official grand opening of “Our Table,” a collaboration between Food First N.L. and Stella’s Circle. NTV’s Beth Penney has the details.

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January 14, 2026

Big Feed Club bringing grocery delivery program to Clarenville, Bonavista Peninsula

'If you can make it easy for people to order local, they will,' says co-founder