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Lawson Foundation welcomes four leaders to its inaugural Youth Action & Environment Pilot Fellowship
As part of our Youth Action & Environment Strategy, the Lawson Foundation is pleased to announce that four young climate and environmental action leaders have been invited to participate in a one-year pilot fellowship program. The fellowship is supporting...
Director, Diabetes Prevention Hiring Announcement
We are thrilled to announce that Jeff LaPlante has joined the Lawson Foundation as our new Director, Diabetes Prevention. Jeff joins the Lawson team at a critical time as we sharpen our Child & Youth Diabetes focus to concentrate on the prevention of type 2...
Youth-led environmental groups are “scraping for morsels” to find funding
Excited to share the second article in our partnership with Future of Good! As climate disasters in Canada and the world are getting more frequent and severe, youth-led environmental groups are leading some of the most innovative projects in the sector. Despite the...
Climate Change Gets Under 10 Hours of Class Time per Year – These Seven Youth-Led Environmental Initiatives are Taking Action Anyway
Excited to share this first article in our partnership with Future of Good! Read on to learn about the amazing work of young leaders across Canada taking on environmental action and climate change https://bit.ly/3MTG7Xp
Partnership with Future of Good Highlighting Youth Environmental Leadership
Throughout history, young people have always been on the frontlines of social change. So it’s no surprise that when it comes to climate change and the environmental crisis, young people are pushing aggressively to protect the environment, as events like wildfires,...
Report | Approaches to Learning Amid Crises: Reflections from Philanthropy
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...