by Amanda Mayer | Jun 30, 2021 | Early Childhood Development-Funders Working Group, Update
The Lawson Foundation has joined other charitable, academic and private sector leaders in urging Ottawa to limit child care funds to only nonprofit/public providers. Read the open letter here (Lisez la version française de la lettre ouverte ici). 29 total...
by Amanda Mayer | Jun 9, 2021 | Truth & Reconciliation, Update
It is with shared grief that we offer condolences to the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Peoples on whose territory the deaths of 215 children occurred at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, children who were forced to attend as “students.” We humbly...
by Amanda Mayer | Mar 15, 2021 | News
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...
by Amanda Mayer | Jan 22, 2021 | Supporting the Charitable, Truth & Reconciliation, Update
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....
by Amanda Mayer | Dec 2, 2020 | News, Youth & the Environment
Nearly 10 months into the global pandemic, it’s clear that COVID-19 and the related health protection measures and protocols have had an impact on every facet of our lives and may continue to do so for some time. And while the focus at this time is rightly on...
