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Outdoor Play Strategy | First Phase Evaluation
The Lawson Foundation’s Outdoor Play Strategy is an integral part of our overall strategic direction. It is driving our comprehensive approach to exploring how outdoor play supports the healthy development of children and youth in communities across Canada. Our...
Op-Ed | Foundations aim to help build a better Canada with a green recovery
"Climate change remains the greatest threat to human health in history, and like COVID-19, we must address it directly and vigorously before it spirals further out of control. Like COVID-19, it disproportionately affects racialized, Indigenous, and economically...
Report | COVID-19 Case Studies: Responses from Canada’s philanthropic sector
This report represents an initial attempt to learn more about how COVID-19 has affected the charitable sector in Canada. It is part of a series of case studies depicting the effects of the global pandemic on Canada’s philanthropic community, and a first step in...
Media Release | Opportunities for outdoor play critical for children during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
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...
Recommended Resources to Support Outdoor Play
Recommended Resources for Increasing Outdoor Play in Early Learning and Child Care Programs in the Context of COVID-19 Resources listed here are grouped by topic and arranged by level, from introductory to advanced. The resources areCanadian and freely available...
Diabetes in Indigenous Communities: A transformative, community-driven solution in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Recommendations
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 & Inuit Health Branch...