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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
Advancing Outdoor Play and Early Childhood Education: A Discussion Paper
The Lawson Foundation is pleased to release Advancing Outdoor Play and Early Childhood Education: A Discussion Paper which is a synthesis of a multi-sector symposium convened in October 2018. The discussion paper shares the major themes of the Symposium and proposes...
Grantee Perceptions Survey Results
The Lawson Foundation in collaboration with our Foundation House partners, The Counselling Foundation of Canada and Laidlaw Foundation, recently undertook a project to gather feedback from our grant recipients. An independent organization, GrantBook, was hired to...
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...