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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
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 triggered...
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...
Hot off the Press: Early Childhood Education Report 2017
The Early Child Education report (ECER) has just been published! Released every three years, these assessments identify gaps and progress in the provision of early childhood services across Canada. In 2017, it's mainly a good news story -- depending on where you live...
Seeking Inspiration: What Canadians Can Learn from the European Philanthropic Sector
The Lawson Foundation is collaborating with The Philanthropist on a series about European philanthropy and what Canadians can learn from our European counter-parts. Check out the first article authored by the Lawson Foundation's CEO, Marcel Lauzière, on reasons why...
Call for Abstracts | Outdoor Play & Early Learning Policy Research Invitational Symposium
The Lawson Foundation will be hosting a two day symposium to support outdoor play and early learning policy in Canada from October 24-26, 2018 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The interactive symposium will provide a forum for researchers, government officials, educators,...
Who gets the last word? Lessons learned from Kenjgewin Teg at M’Chigeeng First Nation
This past spring I had the opportunity to deliver a Forest and Nature School Practitioners’ Course in partnership with Kenjgewin Teg at M'Chigeeng First Nation, on Mnidoo Mnising Manitoulin Island. Leading up to this course we had been working with the Executive...