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Community Vitality 2025 – John Howard Society of London and District

Grant Summary: Many of the 4 million Canadians with criminal records face significant barriers to employment due to stigma, despite critical job shortages in many industries. Employment not only offers a sense of agency and belonging but also serves as a crucial protective factor against homelessness, addiction, and recidivism. This project will implement and evaluate a “fair chances” employment pipeline program over an 18-month period.

July 29, 2025
Zero HungerRacialized and Newcomer

Community Vitality 2025 – Growing Chefs! Ontario

Grant Summary: The Learn to Grow, Grow to Give Project combines food literacy/education and food security programming in innovative, efficient ways by growing and providing fresh, healthy foods for food-insecure families, while delivering equitable, accessible food education programming for children, families, and schools.

July 29, 2025
Arts, Culture, and HeritageRecreationIndigenous Communities

Community Vitality 2025 – Forest City Film Festival

Grant Summary: The Forest City Film Festival is expanding its Indigenous Program, Community Day, and Deep Dive Screenings. Doing so will deepen and transform our regional audience by supporting Indigenous cultures, connecting our various communities, and creating conversations around important local issues.

July 29, 2025
Health and WellbeingElderly

Community Vitality 2025 – Alzheimer Society Southwest Partners

Project Summary: Our vision is to ensure no one impacted by dementia goes unsupported; however, we are not currently reaching lower income, newcomer, racialized and other underserved populations. This project aims to take the first steps in addressing this inequity through enhancing its Community First Link Care Navigation (CFLN) initiative.

July 29, 2025
Zero HungerRacialized and NewcomerYouth

Community Vitality 2025 – Type Diabeat It

Project Summary: In 2022, Statistics Canada reported that 38% of Black households were food-insecure—twice the rate of white households and surpassing all other racialized communities. Alarmingly, 4 in 10 Black homes face food insecurity, and 46.6% of Black children live in food-insecure households. The Type Diabeat It Kitchen Project directly addresses these challenges by developing its 1.5-acre agricultural site.

July 29, 2025
Recreation

Pansy’s Pet Charity: the Legacy She Left Was Love

“From the time I was born to the time my mom died, I’ve never known my mom to be without a pet, let alone a couple of species of pets. We had everything – dogs were a staple, she had 50-60 dogs in her lifetime, every one of them had been abandoned. We had a goose named Waddles that we would take to the beach with us. We had a tortoise that lived in our bathroom, and even a cockatoo, and these were stray or abandoned animals.”

June 18, 2025
Arts, Culture, and HeritageHealth and Wellbeing

Children’s Book, Chuck the Fire Truck, Supports Robb Family Trust

Chuck the Fire Truck, a children’s book authored by Ken McLarnon was self-published in 2024 with funds raised being donated to the Robb Family Trust, a donor-advised fund that supports many initiatives and organizations in and around London, particularly around the arts.

April 23, 2025
EducationZero HungerRacialized and NewcomerYouth

Harvest Haven with Type Diabeat-It

Type Diabeat-It is dedicated to ensuring Black and People of Colour understand what it means to live with diabetes by offering education and support.

Much of their work revolves around food education, with classes and events about diet and cooking held regularly in community spaces. In 2024, they made significant progress on their Harvest Haven project, which tackles food insecurity among the community in London that Type Diabeat-It serves.

February 12, 2025
Arts, Culture, and HeritageHealth and WellbeingHousing and Homelessness2SLGBTQIA+

Woodman Relief Fund Wrap-Up

Following the 2019 Woodman Avenue gas line explosionin Old East Village (OEV) in London, the Woodman Relief Fund fund was established at Libro to support individuals and households impacted by the incident.

January 22, 2025
EducationYouth

Nada Abdallah – J. Allyn Taylor Award Winner 2024

Named in honour of London Community Foundation’s founder, the J. Allyn Taylor Community Service Award is presented to a grade 10-12 student who exhibits outstanding service to and is actively involved in leadership activities in their community. The recipient receives an award of $2,500 towards their post-secondary education and a $500 grant to a charity of their choice. This year, the award was given to Nada Abdallah, who shared more about her community work with us.

December 11, 2024

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