Organizational Updates

End-of-Year Deadlines: Holiday Gifting and Granting

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Sending a holiday grant to your favourite organization? Grants: Wednesday, December 4, 2024 Grants received by December 4 will be deposited or mailed before the end of the calendar year Making a contribution to your TF fund and hoping for a 2024 tax receipt? Gifts of securities: Wednesday, December 11, 2024* We require a completed Gift […]

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Sending a holiday grant to your favourite organization? Grants: Wednesday, December 4, 2024 Grants received by December 4 will be deposited or mailed before the end of the calendar year Making a contribution to your TF fund and hoping for a 2024 tax receipt? Gifts of securities: Wednesday, December 11, 2024* We require a completed Gift

A message from RockCreek

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Toronto Foundation Investment Performance in 2023 For the first time since Toronto Foundation embarked on a responsible investing journey, we’ve partnered on providing an investment impact report. Last year we invested $758M on behalf of the Foundation, of which $97M was invested responsibly. Overall the investments generated a 9.9% return, with an even higher rate

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Toronto Foundation Investment Performance in 2023 For the first time since Toronto Foundation embarked on a responsible investing journey, we’ve partnered on providing an investment impact report. Last year we invested $758M on behalf of the Foundation, of which $97M was invested responsibly. Overall the investments generated a 9.9% return, with an even higher rate

Announcing: our new COO, Rashid Javed

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With over 20 years of senior leadership experience in finance and operations in the corporate and charity sectors across four continents, Rashid Javed has been able to build a reputation of having sound judgment, analytical skills and an ability to inspire, motivate and build trust. Having a particular niche in finding new ways of working

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With over 20 years of senior leadership experience in finance and operations in the corporate and charity sectors across four continents, Rashid Javed has been able to build a reputation of having sound judgment, analytical skills and an ability to inspire, motivate and build trust. Having a particular niche in finding new ways of working

Social isolation on the rise while civic engagement has dropped in Toronto, study finds

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COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected social wellbeing of some residents, new study says Civic engagement among Torontonians has fallen markedly in recent years while the proportion of city residents who feel socially isolated has risen. That’s according to the Toronto Social Capital Study 2022, a sweeping report released Tuesday that explores how the COVID-19 pandemic

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COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected social wellbeing of some residents, new study says Civic engagement among Torontonians has fallen markedly in recent years while the proportion of city residents who feel socially isolated has risen. That’s according to the Toronto Social Capital Study 2022, a sweeping report released Tuesday that explores how the COVID-19 pandemic

Philanthropy Reset

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In the midst of pandemic upheaval, philanthropy became the story in 2020. For the first time in my 20+-year career, private philanthropy rose up as the central figure in a narrative about change. Many spoke up to call traditional philanthropy to account. Endowments were under the microscope for leaving too much money “on the table.”

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In the midst of pandemic upheaval, philanthropy became the story in 2020. For the first time in my 20+-year career, private philanthropy rose up as the central figure in a narrative about change. Many spoke up to call traditional philanthropy to account. Endowments were under the microscope for leaving too much money “on the table.”

Leveraging our assets and knowledge for a bigger impact 

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A reflection on our social impact investing between June 2020 – June 2021 As a community foundation we know full well the potential of pooling assets to deliver a more powerful impact. This year we reaffirmed that philosophy as preferred practice of collaborating with other investors – notably other foundations – on larger, and sometimes ground-breaking initiatives so that we can share the due diligence, best practices and

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A reflection on our social impact investing between June 2020 – June 2021 As a community foundation we know full well the potential of pooling assets to deliver a more powerful impact. This year we reaffirmed that philosophy as preferred practice of collaborating with other investors – notably other foundations – on larger, and sometimes ground-breaking initiatives so that we can share the due diligence, best practices and

A Letter from CEO Sharon Avery

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We opted to forgo a subtitle on this, our 18th Toronto’s Vital Signs Report. How to sum up 18 months of devastation and despair? There’s no simple roundup, no original, insightful, singular analysis that can make sense of all of this. There’s little comfort in pretty words in the face of the greatest crisis of

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We opted to forgo a subtitle on this, our 18th Toronto’s Vital Signs Report. How to sum up 18 months of devastation and despair? There’s no simple roundup, no original, insightful, singular analysis that can make sense of all of this. There’s little comfort in pretty words in the face of the greatest crisis of

Annual Report 2020

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Read the 2020 Annual Report The pace of work has been so hectic that we almost opted to forego this year’s annual report and just issue our financial statements. But then we started remembering all the examples of overwhelming generosity and the collaborative partnerships that enabled it – in an otherwise devastating year – and

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Read the 2020 Annual Report The pace of work has been so hectic that we almost opted to forego this year’s annual report and just issue our financial statements. But then we started remembering all the examples of overwhelming generosity and the collaborative partnerships that enabled it – in an otherwise devastating year – and

Welcome to our new Board Members!

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Please join us in welcoming the newest members of our Board of Directors, Ava-Dayna Sefa and Eugenia Duodu-Addy! We are excited about the expertise, leadership and insights they bring to Toronto Foundation and look forward to working together. Ava-Dayna is a business and public policy professional with extensive experience working across the private, public and

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Please join us in welcoming the newest members of our Board of Directors, Ava-Dayna Sefa and Eugenia Duodu-Addy! We are excited about the expertise, leadership and insights they bring to Toronto Foundation and look forward to working together. Ava-Dayna is a business and public policy professional with extensive experience working across the private, public and

It is a time to listen, learn and act

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It is a time to listen, learn and act. We are committed to listening to, learning from and funding grassroots leaders and organizations working to right inequalities in our city. From our last Vital Signs report we know that the majority of Black community members doubt they will be treated fairly by police. We know

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It is a time to listen, learn and act. We are committed to listening to, learning from and funding grassroots leaders and organizations working to right inequalities in our city. From our last Vital Signs report we know that the majority of Black community members doubt they will be treated fairly by police. We know

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