2008 Director Initiated Grants Awarded
Directors of the Foundation are each able to direct a specified amount annually
to registered charities of their choosing. In 2008 the following grants were
approved:
Art Gallery of Ontario
$10,000
General program support.
Bruce House
$20,000
General program support.
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
$10,000
General program support.
Canadian Opera Company
$15,000
General program support.
Casey House
$10,000
General program support.
Daily Bread Food Bank
$7,500
General program support.
Fleming College - Haliburton School of the Arts
$8,000
In support of Haliburton campus capital projects.
Gardiner Museum
$10,000
In support of the exhibition Food for Thought: Mexican Days of the Dead.
Gardiner Museum
$3,000
General program support.
Literary Review of Canada
$2,500
General program support.
National Ballet of Canada
$10,000
General program support.
Opera.ca
$25,000
General program support.
S.H.A.R.E. Agriculture
$5,000
In support of the Guatemalan Education Project.
Soulpepper Theatre
$4,000
General program support.
STOP Community Food Centre
$10,000
In support of the STOP cook book.
Stratfod Chefs School
$8,000
General program support.
Stratford Shakespeare Festival
$15,000
General program support.
Sunnybrook Foundation
$7,000
In support of family/patient facilities.
Toronto Public Library Foundation
$10,000
In support of the Literary Circle program.
University of Toronto - Trinity College
$10,000
In support of the Humanities for Humanity Program.
Wildlife Conservation Society of Canada
$10,000
In support of wolf and climate change work in Northern Ontario.
WWF – World Wildlife Fund
$10,000
In support of work addressing climate change.