Community Knowledge Centre - Toronto Community Foundation

Right To Play's mission is to use sport and play to educate and empower children and youth to overcome the effects of poverty, conflict, and disease in disadvantaged communities. Through sports and games, we help children build essential life skills and better futures, while driving social change in their communities with lasting impact. Our ...

Ophea champions healthy, active living in schools and communities through quality programs and services, partnerships and advocacy and is led by the vision that all children and youth value and enjoy the lifelong benefits of healthy, active living. Ophea’s strategic goals are:

• To increase the knowledge and skills of leaders, so ...

Literature for Life (LfL) unleashes the intellectual potential of marginalized young mothers by building a culture of literacy and learning to overcome systemic barriers, thereby enabling them to invest in their own and their children's future. The program helps participants discover the joy and benefit of reading, thus allowing them to be ...

Native Women’s Resource Centre of Toronto supports urban Aboriginal women and children in the Greater Toronto Area.  Through individual support, programming, and cultural initiatives Aboriginal women gain self-sufficiency while building our collective capacity to make positive changes in our communities.

Story Planet is a non-profit organization that inspires young people to be creative and effective communicators. We believe that strong communication skills are key to future success.

We deliver writing and storymaking workshops, where we bring together professional writers and artists, as well as trained volunteers, to work ...

To provide a safe, supportive place where children and youth can experience new opportunities, overcome barriers, build positive relationships and develop confidence and skills for life.

The Ontario Justice Education Network (OJEN), founded by Ontario’s three Chief

Justices in 2002, is a collaborative network of organizations devoted to promoting public understanding, education and dialogue to support a responsive and inclusive justice system

Objectives

1. Foster public understanding of the ...

MANDATE

The Power Plant is Canada’s leading public gallery devoted exclusively to contemporary visual art. It is a vital forum for the advanced artistic culture of our time that offers an exceptional facility and professional support to diverse living artists while engaging equally diverse audiences in their work. The Power Plant ...

Friends In Trouble (FIT) is a community based non-profit with a mission to bridge the gap between those who have and those who do not, by addressing the impacts of poverty on individuals, families and communities.  We envision a community in which FIT is a vehicle of empowerment supporting individuals to access resources, create ...

FoodShare is a Toronto non-profit community organization whose vision is Good Healthy Food for All. Founded over 25 years ago to address hunger in our communities, FoodShare takes a unique multi-faceted and long-term approach to hunger and food issues. Our programs reach over 155,000 children and adults per month in Toronto, and we work to ...