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London Community Foundation was proud to support 33 charities and non-profits in London and Middlesex in 2023/2024 to help them adapt to the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding, totalling $1.3 million, helped organizations improve the efficacy, accessibility, and sustainability of the essential community services that they provide.
October 24, 2024
The John Howard Society of London and District is a not-for-profit, community service organization dedicated to helping individuals and families at risk of conflict, or who have conflicted with the law in and around London since 1947.
August 21, 2024
A Community Vitality grant of $63,000 over three years will help the London InterCommunity Health Centre expand its successful peer-led program for newcomer women by incorporating childcare.
Known as Women of the World, or WOW, the program supports the healthy integration of newcomer women as they navigate the challenges of settling in London. The health centre currently hosts three WOW groups: a Farsi-language group for Afghan women, a Kurmanji-language group for Yazidi women, and a multicultural English language group.
August 19, 2024
With their $150,000, two-year Community Vitality Grant, Changing Ways is continuing to employ a Community Engagement and Research Coordinator, a position initially established as a pilot project funded by the Government of Canada’s Community Services Recovery Fund.
In 2023 Ontario lost 62 women and children to femicide, with an overwhelming majority of these crimes being committed by men, with intimate partners being the most common perpetrator.
August 19, 2024
The horrific and deadly attack on Our London Family June 6th, 2021, an act of deliberate hate-motivated violence that Judge Pomerance ruled an act of terrorism on February 22, 2024, profoundly devastated and forever changed a family, the local Muslim community, and the wider London community. A commitment to combat Islamophobia, address the depth of collective harm and trauma within Muslim communities and work towards safety and healing served as the heart of the generous Strong Together Fund donation to the Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration (MRCSSI) by the London Community Foundation.
February 28, 2024
Strong Start provides programs and services aimed at helping children learn to read and acquire essential early literacy skills. One of their notable initiatives, the Letters, Sounds, and Words program, supports one-on-one instruction for children who require additional practice with reading fundamentals, catering to their unique learning needs and individual challenges.
July 12, 2023
London Community Foundation (LCF) in partnership with the Lawson Foundation announced its creation of the LCF COVID-19 Response Fund – a collaborative effort to support our community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Led by LCF with an initial contribution of $300,000, matched by the Lawson Foundation by way of their Miggsie Fund, through which they have been supporting the London community since 2005, the $600,000 fund will provide a central location for philanthropists, corporations, individuals and families to support immediate needs in our community that have emerged as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 30, 2020
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