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CURRENT GRANTS
GRANTS APPROVED IN 2001
YEAR AND COST
Altruvest Charitable Services, Toronto, Ontario
Two grants were approved to Altruvest in 2001. First, a $65,000 grant to support BoardMatch: a pilot project to develop, implement and maintain a volunteer recruitment and training program. The program specifically targets organizational expertise sought by not-for-profit charitable agencies and organizations. A second grant of $14,875 was given to provide organizational development expertise to KYTES.
Blake Boultbee Youth Centre, Toronto, Ontario
This centre serves high risk youth living in east Toronto. The grant provided ensures counselling services are available for those young people in need of on-going counselling.
Central Toronto Youth Services, Toronto, Ontario
A grant was provided to this agency to ensure counselling (individual and group) is available to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and transgender individuals. Access to counselling service in government funded programs not available to many due to age restriction.
Christie Ossington Neighborhood Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Monies were provided to support the LOFT Program (Life, Opportunities, Food and Technology). This program engages youth to build a meaningful social environment where counselling, employment supports and improved life chances can be a reality.
Foundation de l'entrepreneurship, Quebec City
This multi-year grant provides support for the central administration of a province-wide initiative to develop local mentoring programs for entrepreneurs. Financial support ensures coordination, central training and evaluation mechanisms, outreach and volunteer recognition of mentors is consistent across the province.
Frontier College, Toronto, Ontario
Frontier College, with it's long tradition of excellence in tutoring is providing program delivery support to a major mentoring initiative in the Regent Park area of Toronto. The foundation provided a grant for these services.
Imago/Sketch, Toronto, Ontario
This grant provides assistance to a relatively new organization to develop its strategy for sustainability and position it to avail itself of new future opportunities for program expansion. Sketch is a grass roots organization providing job and life skills training to homeless and street involved youth. The team of staff is very committed and provides a unique combination of programming and psychological assessment skills.
Fred Victor Centre, Toronto, Ontario
This grant was provided to support the development of the “Community Path to Skills Development” program. This program is geared at providing skills development to homeless and low-income persons across Toronto. The Program will offer counselling and support through individual assessment, workplan development and regular evaluations.
Kytes, Toronto, Ontario
This grant was provided to support kytes and its efforts to work with marginalized youth. This theatre based organization has previously received foundation support.
London Interfaith Counselling Centre, London, Ontario
This is the third and final year grant approved to support this community based counselling service with general operating expenses related to increased demand on services.
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns
This grant was to support the development activities associated with a Canadian Journal for Career Practitioners.
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St Johns
This grant is to support a five year Tri mentoring program. This provides high school students with an opportunity to be mentored by senior university students, who in turn are mentored by members of the community.
National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, Toronto, Ontario
This grant was to support “ Taking Pulse”; a national conference to define and set the agenda for cooperation between government, corporate partners and charitable partners to increase employment opportunities for First Nation Peoples.
Oolagen, Toronto, Ontario
To support Young mothers and Street Youth through a comprehensive wraparound program piloted by the agency. This was a final year of support for these pilot projects.
Ralph Thornton Centre, Toronto, Ontario
This is a renewal grant to support the Riverdale Student Unit. HRDC funding has been acquired and the $6000 will bridge to those funds. The Riverdale Student Unit has become a significant resource to the South Riverdale community, providing practical training ground for students.
Regent Park Community Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario
This multi-year project is a comprehensive strategy to implement the Pathways to Education program. The Regent Park Health Centre, with foundation support, is developing and facilitating a community engagement approach aimed at changing education and employment goals local residents.
Serve Canada, Toronto, Ontario
Students of the Employment Counsellors program received funds to attend NATCON 2003.
Sir Sandford Fleming (NATCON), Peterborough, Ontario
Students of the Employment Counsellors program received funds to attend NATCON 2002.An additional grant continued to fund the Cosgrave Award at the college with a increase to $2000 this year.
Skills For Change, Toronto, Ontario
The mentoring Program for foreign trained professionals had been supported for two years as a pilot project. A third and final year of support was provided in 2001 to solidify and consolidate the program.
Streetlight Support Services, Toronto, Ontario
The Foundation has been providing funding to Streetlight for over three years now and was instrumental in getting the agency past some very difficult times. A pilot project with Contact Point was very successful and a new grant to continue this work was provided in 2001. The Foundation now provides funding for a salary to provide a computer skills and business etiquette program in-house.
The Canadian Youth Business Foundation, Calgary, Alberta
This grant is to support the National Mentoring Conference held in January of 2002 in Toronto. The conference is the responsibility of a national steering committee and The Canadian Youth Business Foundation is to be the recipient of the grant on behalf of this group. The Counselling Foundation of Canada was co-sponsor with Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC).
The Hospital for Sick Children (The Parenting Alliance), Toronto, Ontario
This grant provides operational staffing for a partnership of child serving agencies facilitated and coordinated by The Hospital for Sick Children. The goal was to encourage excellence in programs and services available to families by encouraging cooperation, resource sharing, and promoting evaluation outcomes amaigst participant members.
Toronto District School Board, Toronto, Ontario
This grant was provided to support the cost associated with providing 800 copies of the book “Good Job” by Nancy Schaefer for distribution in Public Schools Guidance Centre.
Volunteer Centre of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
This grant supports the beginning of a five year Tri-mentoring program which is focused on the success of building “meaningful” student and Mentor relationships by establishing sustainability and enhancing current mentorship efforts.
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
This grant was for to support interim funding the University of Manitoba to maintain the mentoring program in the Social work Faculty. This was to provide time to explore alternative sources of funding and would ensure maintenance of the on-going links between students, the university and the community.
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
To support the development of a NATCON website and online registration for NATCON 2002. In addition, funds were provided to upgrade conference packages to registrants at conference.
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
This grant was to support the “Lesbian and Gay Family network”, a joint project of the University of Western Ontario and the Family Service Association of Toronto. The initiatives within this network include various seminars and services directed at the families as a whole. These services also include a website launched in 2002.
YMCA of Greater Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
$3,500,000
This grant was to support the purchase of Cedar Glen property. This property will be used for the development programs and outdoor education for children and their families.
