Community & Charities

Good things happen when people come together to help others; it is what connects us and what community is all about. Healthtree is more than just a store – we are people serving our community and part of that service is giving back to those in need.

Bring Healthtree to work

Invite Healthtree to your workplace and we'll introduce your employees to the wellness choices available in our store: organic and natural Supplements, Health & Beauty, Grocery, Produce, Meat, Fresh, Gluten Free and healthy ready-to-eat meals from the Healthtree Gourmet kitchen. For more information, contact Healthtree online at or call Kemberley Ford at 514-624-2896 .

Charities we support

Teja's Animal Refuge

Teja's Animal Refuge is a safe haven for all kinds of animals: dogs, cats, horses, pigs, sheep and more. Their mission is to help all animals in need.

Bread Basket Lac-St-Louis

Bread Basket Lac-St-Louis is a non-profit organization based in the West Island of Montreal. We run a variety of food security initiatives such as community kitchens, where people can get together to cook healthy and nutritious meals in a casual and social setting.

Projet Communautaire de Pierrefonds

Projet Communautaire de Pierrefonds (PCP) is a non-profit community organization providing programs and services to low income, multiethnic families in Pierrefonds.

West Island Women’s Shelter

The West Island Women’s Centre (WIWC) is a dynamic and widely-used non-profit community organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of women. We provide educational, social and recreational services for women living in the West Island and the community at large. The Centre is open to all—without regard to age, race or socio-economic background.

Refuge RR for Horses

Refuge RR for Horses is a federally registered, charitable organization which rescues, rehabilitates and provides permanent homes for abused, neglected and/or abandoned horses. We also provide peaceful retirement for horses who are no longer serviceable. Along with our equine residents we also provide sanctuary to a variety of other animals: sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, ducks, rabbits, dogs and cats.

West Island Mission

Established in February 2005, West Island Mission provides food assistance and other related aid to the less fortunate living in the West Island of Montreal. Their mission and purpose is to seek out and make a difference in the lives of people who struggle with poverty in the West Island, hoping to see peoples' suffering and despair replaced by joy and hope.

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Established in 1977, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization. Their mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world's oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species.

Red Cross – Haiti

The global Red Cross network is helping hundreds of thousands of Haitians recover from the January earthquake in the largest single-country response in its history. To date, the American Red Cross has spent and signed agreements to spend $183.5 million to meet the most pressing needs of earthquake survivors.

World Wildlife Fund

World Wildlife Fund is dedicated to stopping the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by (1) conserving the world's biological diversity, (2) ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and (3) promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.

Unicef – Latrine in Malawi Africa

Supported by UNICEF, Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) was introduced to Malawi in 2008. By December 2009, about 1,000 villages in 12 districts had been triggered, with Mchinji having the highest number at 325. A community is considered “triggered” when its residents are so disgusted by the practice of open defecation (through education by other residents) that they are ready to do something about it. Of these, 346 villages were declared free of open defecation.

David Suzuki Foundation

David Suzuki Foundation’s mission is to protect the diversity of nature and our quality of life, now and for the future. Their vision is that within a generation, Canadians act on the understanding that we are all interconnected and interdependent with nature.

Nez Rouge

Operation Red Nose is a unique program dedicated to the fight against impaired driving. It is a volunteer driving service provided during the Christmas Holiday Season to all motorists who have been drinking or who do not feel fit to drive their own vehicle. It is an original way of getting a safe ride in one's own vehicle without getting behind the wheel and... it’s free.

Dans la Rue

Founded by Father Emmett Johns (Pops) in 1988, Dans la rue is a grassroots, community-based organization that works with street kids and at-risk youth aged 12 to 25. The Dans la rue team works tirelessly to put Father Johns' philosophy of help without judgment into action by providing street kids with food, shelter and support through our outreach programs.

Terry Fox

Terry Fox was only 18 years old when he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma (bone cancer) and forced to have his right leg amputated 15 centimetres (six inches) above the knee in 1977. While in hospital, Terry was so overcome by the suffering of other cancer patients, many of them young children, that he decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. He called his journey the Marathon of Hope. After 18 months and running over 5,000 kilometres, Terry was forced to stop running outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario because cancer had appeared in his lungs. Terry passed away on June 28, 1981 at the age 22. To date, close to $500 million has been raised worldwide for cancer research in Terry's name through the annual Terry Fox Run, held across Canada and around the world.

Children's Wish

Established in 1984, Children's Wish is a national non-profit organization dedicated to fulfilling a favourite wish for children diagnosed with life-threatening illnesses. Since its inception 25 years ago, Children's Wish has granted more than 16,000 wishes for children and their families and fulfills approximately 900 wishes annually -- granting nearly three wishes everyday -- each being an individual adventure, carefully structured to meet the needs of that particular child. The foundation has never refused a wish to an eligible child. Each wish is as unique as the child who makes it. A wish can range from a personal computer or a home theatre system, to travel or a meeting with a celebrity.

Old Brewery Mission

For more than 100 years, the Old Brewery Mission has provided Montreal’s homeless adults essential Emergency Services for men and women such as a safe refuge from the street, nourishing meals, warm showers and clothing. They also offer clients real solutions to homelessness through dynamic Transition Services and Permanent Social Housing Services. They are dedicated to making the Old Brewery Mission more than a last stop for the homeless. They make it a new beginning.

Gazette Christmas Fund

The fund aims to help needy families, first and foremost those with young children, but also seniors, the disabled and others who suffer from isolation. The Gazette works closely with more than 150 local agencies (such as the Old Brewery Mission, Saint Vincent de Paul, CLSCs, Sun Youth) to help us find those in need and to get the $125 cheques into their hands in time for the holidays.

Healthtree also sponsors children’s breakfasts, Dollard-des-Ormeaux hockey and soccer teams and several different cancer societies.