by Amanda Mayer | Jul 13, 2020 | Healthy Active Children, News, Outdoor Play Strategy
Go outside and play! Opportunities for outdoor play critical for children during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic Lawson Foundation shares recommendations for policy makers, early learning and child care, and post secondary early childhood education programs to...
by Karen Shelstad | Jun 22, 2020 | Diabetes, Healthy Active Children, News, Truth & Reconciliation
Putting community knowledge and leadership at the centre of a challenge – that’s what we’re doing in a unique collaboration with local Indigenous communities, Raven Indigenous Capital Partners and Indigenous Services Canada’s First Nations...
by Marcel Lauzière | Apr 1, 2020 | News
The global COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented event. As both the crisis and our collective response unfold, we must acknowledge that the impacts of the pandemic are both immediate and far-reaching. And that they will undoubtedly be felt most profoundly by those in...
by Marcel Lauzière | Mar 30, 2020 | News
London Community Foundation (LCF) in partnership with the Lawson Foundation announced its creation of the LCF COVID-19 Response Fund – a collaborative effort to support our community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Led by LCF with an initial contribution of $300,000,...
by Marcel Lauzière | Mar 17, 2020 | News
In light of COVID-19 we want to share the steps we have taken at the Lawson Foundation. In efforts to contribute to the national effort to curb COVID-19, as of March 16 and for the forseeable future, we’ve shifted our operations to all-remote work and therefore...
by Christine Alden | May 21, 2019 | Healthy Active Children, News, Outdoor Play Strategy
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...
