Father’s Day Gift Guide

With Father’s Day just around the corner, we’ve put together a gift guide featuring some local businesses that give back to the community. These companies donate some or all of their sales towards helping our vulnerable neighbours.   

Please note: This list is not at all exhaustive and we apologize if we have missed one of your favourites. If you know of a local business like this that gives back to the community and isn’t listed here, send us an email with your suggestion, and we’ll be sure to include it. Email your suggestions to media@homewardtrust.ca

If you missed them, check out our other gift guides – Mother’s Day Gift Guide and Holiday Gift Guide. Any day is a good day to show Mom, Dad or that special someone just how much you appreciate them, especially if you are also supporting the local community.

Find Edmonton

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The start-up cost for anyone moving into their first home can be expensive, especially for someone moving out of homelessness. Find provides free essential furnishings to individuals and families who are moving out of homelessness. In addition to supporting Housing Support program participants, Find sells gently used furniture and housewares at a low-cost to the public via its brick-and-mortar shop and online. Every purchase from Find goes back to supporting individuals and families moving out of homelessness.

Bissell Thrift Shop

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The Bissell Thrift Shop is a social enterprise of Bissell Centre, a non-profit organization grounded in eliminating poverty. Sales from the shop go directly back into Bissell Centre programs and services to support community members. From the revenue earned at the Thrift Shop, 89¢ of every dollar goes back to supporting the community through Bissell Centre’s life-changing services and programs including meals, outreach, housing, mental health, employment, financial empowerment and more. Shop online or instore for a unique and one-of-a-kind gift for dad. 

All prices are quoted in Canadian dollars. All prices quoted were checked shortly before publication, but prices change often and might not match what is found online. Readers should make sure to check in-stock and delivery status this year.

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We recognize we are gathered, in collaboration and with joint purpose, on Treaty 6 territory. This territory is the traditional home and gathering place for diverse Indigenous peoples. The nêhiyaw (Cree), Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Dene, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Anishinaabe (Saulteaux/Ojibwe), Nakota Isga (Nakota Sioux), Inuit, and Métis, among many others cared for this land since time immemorial and continue to steward it today. As visitors in this territory, we honour the importance of the Treaty and our responsibility to these communities. Only in partnership can we create the changes necessary to end homelessness. It is vital we meaningfully engage and partner with Indigenous people and communities in this work while recognizing and addressing the conditions brought forth by colonialism. Displacement from traditional homelands, systemic racism, residential schools, the Sixties Scoop, and the ongoing overrepresentation of Indigenous people in child welfare, correctional systems, and homelessness are responsibilities we all share.