Grants Awarded 2007
Total disbursements for 2007 under the Metcalf Foundation’s Community Program equal $1,344,323. The following is a list that includes grants to quailified donee organizations and descriptions of contracted services for specific charitable work to be carried out on behalf of the Foundation.
Communities in Action
The Communities in Action Program supports people and organizations to create comprehensive collaborative long-term solutions to issues of poverty.
Access Alliance Multicultural Health Centre
$40,928 (year 2 of 2)
to work with low-income, ethno-racially diverse residents in the Black Creek neighbourhood to engage in participatory research that leads to a deeper understanding of the relationship between health, income security and race and generates evidence based action and advocacy.
Agincourt Community Service
$35,000 (year 2 of 2)
to assist the Scarborough Civic Action Network (SCAN) to work collaboratively with diverse constituencies on a range of cross-cutting issues disproportionately affecting poor communities in Scarborough.
Building Movement Project
$1,962
to share the Building Movement model with community organizations and capacity builders to jointly advance learning about community building, constituent engagment, emerging leadership in the nonprofit sector, and social service and social change.
Community Action Resource Cente
$35,000 (year 1 of 2)
to strengthen their ability to support people living in poverty to work together to influence change on issues affecting their lives. They will do this by: integrating and expanding board, volunteer and staff’s’ community development capacity, and facilitating the mobilization of residents to address underlying conditions of poverty through a range of strategies including education, leadership development, and organizing.
Council of Agencies Serving South Asions
$74,223
to support their membership and the constituencies they serve to increase their ability to address the root causes of poverty.
East Scarborough Boys and Girls Club
$44,378 (year 2 of 2)
to assist the East Scarborough Storefront to strengthen resident leadership, mobilization and education efforts in order to reduce the impact of poverty in East Scarborough.
Family Services Association
$100,629 (year 1 of 2)
to assist Campaign 2000 and the Income Security Advocacy Centre to support low-income communities to contribute to the development of an Ontario Poverty Reduction Plan and to help engage other stakeholder groups in this process.
FoodShare
$50,000
to research and develop policy options to address the long-term viability of local produce markets in low-income communities in order to address food insecurity issues arising from inadequate income, unsustainable agriculture and diet-related illness.
Learning Enrichment Foundation
$52,105
to engage residents, politicians, social service organizations, businesses and other institutions and residents in part of the former City of York to develop a comprehensive community revitalization plan with the goals of poverty reduction and sustainable economic development. Concurrently the organization will work to embed systemic change principles and goals within all aspects of their operations.
Mennonite New Life Centre of Toronto
$15,000
to work with low-income newcomers to build analysis and action around the root causes of racialized poverty in Toronto.
North York Community House
$24,000 (year 3 of 3)
to partner with Jane Finch Community & Family Centre and Delta Family Resource Centre to transform the three neighbourhood centres from a service delivery model to one emphasizing social change, resident leadership and community mobilization in order to take collective action on issues of poverty in North York.
Ralph Thornton Community Organization
$23,500
to work with low-income residents to support their voices and efforts to participate in influencing economic and social change, and to partner with other agencies to enhance their capacity to address systemic issues while also continuing to provide needed services.
Regent Park Community Health Centre
$16,851 (year 2 of 2)
to support the work of Health Providers Against Poverty to develop the capacity amongst Ontario healthcare providers and their professional organizations to target poverty, and inadequate social assistance rates in particular, as a health issue.
St. Christopher House
$78,983 (year 1 of 2)
to explore how organizations can increase and sustain the capacity of low-income communities to contribute to the broader public discourse and advocacy aimed at increasing income security and reducing social isolation.
The STOP
$60,000 (year 2 of 2)
to work in partnership with Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre, local residents and other key constituents to mobilize and influence policy on income security issues related to minimum wage and a diet supplement for social assistance recipients.
Street Health Community Nursing Foundation
$28,040
to support ongoing dialogue, education and dissemination of the finding and emerging from the 2007 Street Health Report.
Toronto Neighbourhood Centres
$74,500 (year 2 of 2)
to strengthen community development practice in Toronto in order to enhance nonprofit agencies capacity to address issues of economic and social justice.
West Hill Community Services
$72,500 (year 3 of 3)
to implement a strategy of resident engagement and leadership building in order to enhance West Hill’s capacity to get at root causes of poverty. This strategy will include an organizational change process to integrate community development approaches, such as organizing and advocacy, across their programs and services.
Workers' Action Centre
$65,000 (year 1 of 3)
to strengthen the capacity of contingent workers to act individually and collectively to address workplace practices, employment standards and labour legislation that negatively affects them. The Workers’ Action Centre will also further develop their worker led organizational and governance model.
Working Women's Community Centre
$75,000
to partner with the Portuguese Canadian National Congress to address issues of undocumented workers. This project aims to convene a multi-stakeholder table to examine ways to better support undocumented migrants and to contribute to immigration policy reforms and changes in regulations at all orders of government.
Leadership in Action
Leadership in Action is intended to contribute to fostering a reflective, diverse, robust community sector capable of responding to complex social challenges. We offer three distinct learning and leadership opportunities: Emerging Leaders- a Management and Leadership program, Innovation Fellowships, and Renewal Fellowships
York University Foundation
$78,015 (year 3 of 3)
to support the work of the Emerging Leaders Program, a joint initiative of Metcalf, United Way of Greater Toronto and the Schulich School of Business. This program builds the management skills and capitalizes on the inherent leadership abilities of middle managers in the social services sector. The long-term goal of the program is to assist the entire sector with succession planning and leadership diversification.
York University Foundation
$61,389 (year 1 of 2)
to support the Emerging Leaders Program in 2008.
Renewal Fellowships
The Renewal Fellowship supports exceptional senior leaders in the community-based sector who have demonstrated outstanding work and a long-term commitment to improving social conditions and opportunity for low-income people. It provides a sabbatical for intellectual and personal revitalization. The Foundation provides financial support up to a maximum of $40,000. Total disbursements for Renewal Fellowships in 2007 equal $118,040. This year’s Renewal Fellows are:
Rosalyn Miller, Executive Director - Delta Family Resource Centre
Rose will examine new ideas and concepts on leadership and activism for community based organizations. As part of this process she will spend time in the U.S. with the Building Movement initiative to better understand different strategies for grassroots organizing and poverty reduction.
Rhonda Roffey, Executive Director - Women's Habitat of Etobicoke
Rhonda will undertake a journey to reconnect with her Aboriginal culture and history.
Innovation Fellowships
Innovation Fellowships give people of vision the opportunity to investigate ideas, models and practices that have the potential to lead to transformational change. The Foundation provides financial support up to a maximum of $40,000. Total disbursements for Innovation Fellowships in 2007 equal $80,399. This year’s Innovation Fellows are:
Lynn Eakin, Lynn Eakin & Associates
to explore promising strategies for creating change in the regulatory and financing of nonprofit organizations in Ontario through the development of a provincial non-profit network.
John Stapleton, Open Policy
to disseminate the findings from a research report entitled Why is it so tough to get ahead? How our tangled social programs pathologize the transition to self-reliance. This research report documents the impacts stemming from the interaction of different social benefit programs for low-income adults and families in Toronto and offers a series of policy and program recommendations to create change.
Pat Thompson
to examine the patterns and practices of nonprofit leadership renewal and to make recommendations about new ways to encourage, support and enable people in their development as leaders.
Other Grants
Institute iin Management and Community Development - Concordia University
$6,000
to support Kim Klein as a practitioner fellow in residence at the Institute in Management and Community Development at Concordia. As part of her fellowship she will spend time working in Toronto with a range of community residents, groups and
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