by Amanda Mayer | Dec 10, 2021 | Diabetes, Healthy Active Children, Update
Late last year the Lawson Foundation Board of Directors approved a new direction for the Child & Youth Diabetes Strategy (CYDS), narrowing its scope and making a ten-year commitment to focus on the prevention of type 2 diabetes in northern and remote Indigenous...
by Amanda Mayer | Sep 6, 2021 | Diabetes, Impact Investing, Update
A partnership between Raven Capital, the Lawson Foundation, and the federal government leverages an impact-investing strategy from the clean energy sector to tackle the diabetes epidemic in Indigenous communities. Read more. Un partenariat entre Raven Capital, la...
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....
