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Stories from organizations and people turning generosity into impact.
Ahead of legacy month, former London Community Board Chair Erin Naylor – a wills, estates, and corporate lawyer with Scott Petrie LLP – discusses the benefits of legacy giving and how you can leave a gift in your will to London Community Foundation.
April 27, 2026
For people living with chronic joint pain, everyday movements as simple as standing and walking can become overwhelming challenges. For patients served by Operation Walk Canada, access to joint replacement surgery can mean the difference between a life limited by pain and one renewed with independence and dignity.
April 27, 2026
This story was first published in London Community Foundation’s 2024 Impact Report, in May 2025.
Fun. Hardworking. Caring. Animal Lovers. Those are the core values that guide the Paul and Suzanne Manders Family Fund.
April 4, 2026
Ahead of legacy month, former London Community Board Chair Erin Naylor – a wills, estates, and corporate lawyer with Scott Petrie LLP – discusses the benefits of legacy giving and how you can leave a gift in your will to London Community Foundation.
April 27, 2026
For people living with chronic joint pain, everyday movements as simple as standing and walking can become overwhelming challenges. For patients served by Operation Walk Canada, access to joint replacement surgery can mean the difference between a life limited by pain and one renewed with independence and dignity.
April 27, 2026
This story was first published in London Community Foundation’s 2024 Impact Report, in May 2025.
Fun. Hardworking. Caring. Animal Lovers. Those are the core values that guide the Paul and Suzanne Manders Family Fund.
April 4, 2026
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A few months after my mother died, my father visited me in London, Ontario, last year. We were talking over lunch in Old East Village, the way one does when grief leaves space for reflection. That’s when an idea of how we could honour my mother’s memory came to me.
March 6, 2026
In 2024, London InterCommunity Health Centre’s “Women of the World” Childcare Provision project received a $63,000 Community Vitality Grant.The program supports the healthy integration of newcomer women as they navigate the challenges of settling in London. Recently, we received the following update that speaks to the impact the project is making.
Written by Selma Tobah, Community Development Worker at London InterCommunity Health Centre.
October 16, 2025
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
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
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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