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Early Child Development Funders Working Group reaction to 2021 Federal Budget
The Lawson Foundation is a founding member of the Early Child Development Funders Working Group (ECD-FWG), a group of 8 Canadian foundations that are committed to the importance of ensuring high quality, accessible early learning and child care for all children....
Report | Approaches to Learning Amid Crises: Reflections from Philanthropy
In interviews with seven foundations from Canada and the U.S. in the summer and fall of 2020, Taylor Newberry Consulting applied the lens of organizational learning to how each of these foundations made sense of their reality, asked different kinds of questions to...
Lawson Foundation’s diabetes strategy to focus on type 2 diabetes prevention in northern and remote Indigenous communities
The Lawson Foundation has a long history of supporting work in diabetes. While important progress has been made on a number of fronts, diabetes continues to be an epidemic in Canada and around the world. Today, more than 11 million Canadians are living with diabetes...
Reflections on Trust-Based Philanthropy
Our COO & Program Director, Amanda Mayer, was invited to provide a commentary on a webinar on "Trust-Based Philanthropy" organized by Philanthropic Foundations Canada and Community Foundations of Canada. Here are her reflections from the dialogue. (version...
Lawson Foundation invests $4.95 million in 8 demonstration projects to build adult capacity to support outdoor play in Early Learning and Child Care
The Lawson Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the second phase of its Outdoor Play Strategy and an investment of $4.95 million in 8 demonstration projects that will benefit Early Learning and Child Care across Canada. This strategy and investment are...
Sharing Power and Influence for Greater Impact
Our President & CEO, Marcel Lauzière, shares how the Lawson Foundation is taking a back-seat to funder-grantee relationships, starting with the Indigenous Diabetes Reduction and Indigenous Peoples Resilience Fund in PANL Perspectives: Grantees have strong...
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