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Youth and the Environment
The Foundation’s newest impact area aims to support leadership and development opportunities for adolescents and emerging adults within an environmental context.
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.
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.
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
Reflections on outdoor play in Canada from across the pond
In October 2018, the Lawson Foundation invited Henry Mathias, Head of Professional Practice and Standards with the Care Inspectorate in Scotland to give the keynote address at its Outdoor Play and Early Learning Policy Research Symposium. Henry shared Scotland’s...
Lawson Foundation invests in 10 youth-led environmental initiatives across the country
We are pleased to announce that the Lawson Foundation is investing $2.7 million in ten youth-led environmental initiatives across Canada over three years as part of our new Youth and the Environment Impact Area. Our newest area of focus was developed in response to...
Breaking the Cycle of Diabetes in South Asians
When 14-year old Kiran Grewal joined the South Asian Adolescent Diabetes Awareness Program (SAADAP), she did it because diabetes runs in her family. Her father, her aunt (on her dad’s side) and both of her grandmothers have type 2 diabetes (T2DM), and her little...
Twitter Chat: Youth and the Environment Funding Call
If you’re thinking about applying for the Youth and the Environment funding, then you won’t want to miss our Twitter Chat. Join us Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at Noon EDT and let our Program Director, Karen Shelstad, share her knowledge about the funding stream and how to...
Investing in youth. Connecting with nature. Protecting the environment.
Lawson Foundation explores ways to support work in its newest impact area and will open a call for proposals this spring. In 2014, the Lawson Foundation revised its overall strategic direction to focus on the healthy development of children and youth. This...
Making Change: Public Policy and the Opportunities for the NGO Sector
Over the holidays I was talking with my 18-year-old son about the consequences of climate change. He stopped me in my tracks when he asked the deceptively simple question: “Why do we allow people and corporations to pollute? We should just tell them they can’t.” He...