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Outdoor Play Strategy
Our $2.7 million dollar Outdoor Play Strategy seeks to help us better understand how to increase children’s opportunities for self-directed outdoor play in all settings – at home, in school, in child care, the community and nature.
Child & Youth Diabetes Strategy
Building on the Foundation’s 15 years of leadership and experience funding diabetes prevention and management programs for children and youth.
Impact Investing
In addition to our grantmaking, the Lawson Foundation is leveraging its assets to create social good through impact investing.
Advocating for Investment in Early Child Development
The Lawson Foundation and other grantmakers are advocating for greater investment in Early Childhood Education across Canada.
Supporting the Charitable & Nonprofit Sector
Providing support to organizations and initiatives that promote and encourage philanthropy in Canada and that help build the capacity of charities and nonprofits to succeed.
News & Updates
Emerging Leader Award Recipients Announced
The Lawson Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of its 60th Anniversary Emerging Leaders Awards. In 2016-2017, the Lawson Foundation is celebrating its 60th anniversary as a national family foundation. As part of this celebration the Foundation created a...
National Child Data Strategy: Results of a Feasibility Study
National Child Data Strategy: Results of a Feasibility Study By Sherri Torjman Released June 8, 2017 The Lawson Foundation, acting on the advice of pan-Canadian early child development stakeholders, recently commissioned a feasibility study, undertaken by Sherri...
Living in a Good Way: Learning from Indigenous Teachings
The Lawson Foundation Guest Blog Series The Lawson Foundation is pleased to share the first blog post in our series authored by our grantees. It provides an opportunity for our grantees to share stories from the field, lessons learned, as well as put forward thought...
Outdoor Play Lessons from the U.K. – Supporting outdoor play in “bad” weather
Last June on my outdoor play tour of London, England, I was really pleased to meet a passionate and dedicated forest school educator who is a realist. She told me: “It’s all fine and well to say there’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing, but that’s just...
$2.6 million in funding awarded to 12 diabetes projects across Canada
The Lawson Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of new grants under our Child & Youth Diabetes Strategy. Twelve projects out of 66 submissions from across Canada will receive a total of $2,640,000 in funding. For the first time, the Foundation’s...
Update on our Child and Youth Diabetes Funding Strategy
Coming soon: Announcement of new initiatives to be funded by the Lawson Foundation’s Children & Youth Diabetes Funding Strategy! Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in children and youth. Type 1 diabetes, the main form of the disease in children,...