Collaborating for Impact
Learn about some of our current and past initiatives. Whether it’s a funding program, a response to an urgent challenge or the release of our latest research, our work is made better when we collaborate with others to address the challenges facing communities, the city or the charitable sector.
Unclaimed Property
Toronto Foundation and 51 community foundations want to reconnect Ontarians with unclaimed funds and share any outstanding balance with local charities.
Being Black in Public Survey Report
This initiative, led by Jay Pitter Placemaking, in partnership with the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, and administered by the Institute for Social Research, offers compelling insight Black people's public space experiences.
Black and Indigenous Futures Fund
Created in response to the deepening inequalities in Toronto, the Black and Indigenous Futures Fund recognized the pervasive impacts of systemic racism, including within philanthropy, and supported meaningful, community-led action.
Fundholder Learning
Our fundholder learning programs, Vision 2020, Vision Next and the Learning Exchange, brought donors together with community leaders to explore sector insights and practice values-driven, impactful philanthropy.
Trust Collective
The Trust Collective was a three-year collaborative learning journey to advance gender equality, involving more than 50 women philanthropists and women-led and/or women-serving charitable organizations.
Unflood Ontario
An awareness campaign promoting the use of natural infrastructure as a way to mitigate the growing toll of climate change-fueled flooding.
Better Toronto Coalition
A webinar series featuring on-the-ground insights from nonprofit leaders supporting communities during COVID.
#CanadaStrong
In support of the victims of Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 75.
#TorontoStrong
In support of the victims of the 2018 van attack.