Organization Updates

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

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.”

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

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

After my mother died a few years ago, my father’s health quickly declined. As a firefighter, he had dedicated his life to the safety of our community. But with no family close by, he had become isolated and vulnerable. On one of my routine trips home, I pulled into my dad’s driveway to an astonishing

Published Monday March 16, 2020 Starting Monday March 16 and for the foreseeable future, Toronto Foundation staff will be working remotely. We’ve made the decision carefully based on public health recommendations to create some social distance in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. We know that this is the crucial period of