Slaight Foundation commits $11.8 million to assist women and girls
The Toronto-based Slaight Family Foundation has announced a C$15 million commitment ($11.8 million) in support of 12 organizations across Canada working to reduce gender-based violence, with a focus on Indigenous, Black, racialized, refugee, and immigrant women and girls.
The organizations receiving funding from this initiative include Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada and Covenant House Toronto, which were each awarded C$1 million ($788,532) over four years. Other recipients include the Canadian Women’s Foundation, Girls E Mentorship (GEM), New Circles, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Ontario Native Women’s Association, University Health Network’s National Eating Disorder Information Centre, Women’s College Hospital Foundation, Women’s Shelters Canada, Women’s Health in Women’s Hands, and YWCA Canada, in support of Canada’s first program aimed at providing emergency funding for women leaving abusive situations.
“These latest Slaight Family Foundation grants will go a long way to help us with the ongoing recovery from the pandemic and the achievement of our broader objective of ensuring equity and advancement for women,” said Toronto mayor John Tory. “This funding will ensure better health, safety, and more opportunity for women in Toronto and across Canada, and that is good for women and good for all of us.”
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