Centraide Centre-du-Québec

What Centraide Centre-du-Québec does

Centraide Centre-du-Québec is a Canadian non-profit organization headquartered in Drummondville, Québec, that operates as the regional Centraide (United Way-equivalent) affiliate serving the Centre-du-Québec region. Founded in 1979, the entity functions as a fundraising and fund-distribution intermediary: it solicits donations through workplace campaigns and community giving, then allocates those proceeds to local partner agencies addressing social services in the region. Its scope is explicitly geographic, limited to Centre-du-Québec in Canada, with no indication of broader national or international operations.

The organization is structured at a very small operating scale, with seven employees listed in firmographic data. The legal name is Centraide Centre-du-Québec, there is no parent company, no subsidiaries, and no public ticker. The corporate website (centraide-cdq.ca) is the only identified digital presence noted in the source; the scraped content from the site resolved to a non-informative loader and did not yield product, service, technology, partnership, or financial details.

Because no revenue, fundraising totals, programmatic breakdown, partner-agency list, leadership roster, or pricing/donor-tier information is present in the available data, the business-model detail beyond "regional charitable fundraising and grant distribution" cannot be substantiated from the source. The absence of M&A, funding, expansion, certification, or product-launch data further constrains any forward-looking claims about the organization.

Name

Centraide Centre-du-Québec

Legal name

Centraide Centre-du-Québec

Website

https://centraide-cdq.ca

Company type

Private

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Centraide Centre-du-Québec is a Drummondville-based, non-profit regional fundraising and grant-distribution organization (founded 1979) that operates as the local Centraide/United Way affiliate serving communities in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, Canada, using a seven-person staff.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Fundraising and Charitable Grant-Making

NAICS

Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Federated Giving Organizations (e.g., United Way-type) (BPAGAKAG)

Keywords

• Charitable fundraising campaigns
• Community social services
• Donor fund redistribution
• Regional nonprofit federation
• Workplace giving programs

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

Centraide Centre-du-Québec is a regional charitable federation that conducts annual fundraising campaigns across the Centre-du-Québec region and redistributes the proceeds as grants to local community and social-service agencies. Its core activity is soliciting donations from individuals, employees, and corporate partners, assessing community needs, and funding programs that address poverty, social inclusion, and community well-being within its territory.

Product overview

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Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Annual Centraide fundraising campaign (Centre-du-Québec) Yearly coordinated fundraising appeal conducted across the Centre-du-Québec region through workplace payroll-deduction campaigns, direct donations, and community events, soliciting contributions from individuals, employees, and corporate partners to be redistributed to local community agencies.
• Community grants to local agencies and programs Distribution of pooled donated funds to vetted community and social-service agencies operating in Centre-du-Québec, supporting programs that address poverty, social inclusion, and community well-being.
• Workplace giving / payroll deduction program Partnership program that enables local employers, unions, and public-sector institutions in Centre-du-Québec to offer employees automatic payroll-deduction donations to Centraide Centre-du-Québec as part of its annual campaign.

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Regional players

• United Way British Columbia: A provincial-scale United Way federation serving British Columbia under the same brand and federated model, comparable as a regional chapter operating the same workplace-campaign and grantmaking model in a different Canadian province.
• Fondation du Grand Montréal: A large Quebec-focused community foundation that manages endowments and distributes grants in the Greater Montreal region. Comparable as a regional philanthropic grantmaking organization in Quebec, though structured as a foundation rather than a federated fundraiser.

Direct peers

• Centraide du Grand Montréal: The largest Centraide/United Way chapter in Quebec, operating under the same federated brand and running the same workplace-campaign fundraising and grantmaking model in the Greater Montreal region — the closest direct comparable for a regional Quebec Centraide chapter.
• Centraide Québec et Chaudière-Appalaches: A neighboring Centraide chapter serving the Quebec City and Chaudière-Appalaches regions with the same federated fundraising model, comparable mid-size regional scope, and overlapping donor pools in adjacent Quebec territories.
• Centraide Outaouais: Another regional Centraide chapter in Quebec (Outaouais region), operating the identical United Way federated model with similar small-staff structure and regional grantmaking scope.
• Centraide Mauricie: A regional Centraide chapter serving the Mauricie region of Quebec with the same federated workplace-giving and community grantmaking model, comparable in scale to a small Quebec Centraide chapter.
• Centraide Estrie: A smaller regional Centraide chapter serving the Estrie region of Quebec, with a comparable lean operating model, workplace-campaign focus, and grantmaking mandate to local nonprofits — highly analogous in scale and structure.

Broad incumbents

• Community Foundations of Canada: The national umbrella for Canada's 191 community foundations, which pool and deploy philanthropic capital at the local level. Comparable in that community foundations serve overlapping regional philanthropic needs in Quebec, and increasingly compete with Centraide chapters for major donors and corporate CSR dollars.
• United Way Greater Toronto: The largest United Way chapter in Canada, operating the same federated giving and grantmaking model but at significantly greater scale — useful for benchmarking best practices and digital fundraising capabilities applicable to smaller Quebec chapters.
• United Way Worldwide: The global federation of which Centraide is the Canadian member — relevant as the parent brand governing fundraising standards, campaign materials, and best-practice sharing that flow down to every regional Centraide chapter.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

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M&A

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