How Supporting the Just Oshawa Fundraising Efforts Helps Your Business, Strengthens Our Community, and Builds Long-Term Change

Small businesses are the backbone of Oshawa. They keep our community alive, support families, and reflect the heart of our city. Yet today’s online world makes it harder than ever for local businesses to get seen—unless you’re paying for ads, boosting posts, or playing the corporate game.

Just Oshawa is changing that. And for local businesses, this opportunity is completely free.

By joining the Just Oshawa fundraising efforts, your business not only gains valuable visibility but becomes part of a long-term movement that supports the Not Just A Food Program and helps lay the foundation for the LIFE Transitional Housing Project. Your involvement helps build solutions that will change Oshawa—and eventually communities beyond our borders.

A Free Opportunity That Helps Your Business Grow

Participation costs you nothing. There is no fee, no contract, no pressure.

All we ask is simple:

✔️ Place a couple of small print promotions in your business

These are small tent-card displays with QR codes linking to your business and our community efforts—clean, simple, and professionally designed.

✔️ Optionally display 1–2 product samples

You can choose a few examples from our local fundraising products (prints, magnets, stickers, etc.) to help your customers see the quality.

✔️ Nothing else is required

We handle the rest.

And in return, your business receives ongoing, weekly visibility across:

• Facebook

• Instagram

• Threads

• X (Twitter)

• Pinterest

• YouTube

• Rumble

• LinkedIn

• Tumblr

• Alignable

• TikTok

• The full Just Oshawa network

This means your business enters the search algorithms of 12+ major platforms every week, without needing a profile on each one. It’s reach, engagement, and brand recognition—all without spending a dollar.

This is a real win-win for your business and for Oshawa.

Raising Awareness for the Not Just A Food Program—Together

Every time your business is promoted through Just Oshawa, we also highlight the work of the Not Just A Food Program, which provides:

• free sandwiches

• care packages

• health-and-wellness support

• free plants and seeds to grow nutrition

• education and outreach

• community-based help for those most in need in Oshawa

You help bring awareness. We help bring support. The community benefits directly.

Working Together to Host Free Community Draws

For businesses that want to go one step further, we can collaborate on free draws hosted right at your location.

Here’s how it works:

💙 Free draw at your business

Anyone who visits your business can enter for free.

💙 Bonus entries for following your business on social media

A simple way to grow your online audience and deepen customer relationships.

💙 Bonus entries for following Just Oshawa

This increases awareness for the Not Just A Food Program and all our community efforts.

We provide the products for the draw. We create the promotional content. You get increased foot traffic and more engagement. Everyone wins—and it costs you nothing.

Helping Build the Foundation for the LIFE Transitional Housing Project

This is a long-term vision rooted in compassion, empowerment, and community care. Funds raised through these efforts will help:

• expand resources

• strengthen outreach programs

• build capacity

• and eventually create the foundation for the LIFE Transitional Housing Project, a supportive living environment focused on:

  • self-sufficiency

  • indoor growing

  • mental wellness

  • skill development

  • community connection

  • dignity and acceptance

Your participation helps build something real, lasting, and transformative.

A Cooperative Model That Works for Everyone

This is the power of community partnership:

You help us.

Your location becomes a point of awareness and connection for community support.

We help you.

Your business receives weekly social-media exposure and added visibility at no cost.

Together, we help Oshawa.

We strengthen local businesses. We support the most vulnerable. We build long-term solutions. We prove that community can lift community—without corporate influence.

A Simple, Free, Win-Win Choice That Creates Real Impact

By taking part in the Just Oshawa fundraising efforts, you gain:

• free weekly promotion

• stronger online visibility

• more social-media followers

• increased community trust

• customer engagement through free draws

• product samples that spark conversation

• a meaningful role in supporting the Not Just A Food Program

• and the satisfaction of helping build the LIFE Transitional Housing Project

This is how we bring meaningful change to Oshawa—together, through love, compassion, and community-first action.

When local businesses rise, our entire city rises with them. And together, we will show that Love Is For Everyone, and community support can shape a brighter future for all.