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Community Vitality 2024 Changing Ways

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
2SLGBTQIA+Youth

Ivan Hu – Rainbow Youth Bursary Recipient

We’re excited to introduce Ivan Hu, this year’s recipient of the Rainbow Youth Leadership Bursary. This award recognizes young leaders for their outstanding efforts in promoting inclusivity and support for 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals. Here’s Ivan’s journey and their impactful work towards making London and Middlesex County a more welcoming community.

July 23, 2024
Lorraine Ivey Shuttleworth – A Different Kind of Legacy

Leave a Legacy month, marked in May, is traditionally a time when non-profits encourage their donors to leave a gift in their will, but doing this isn’t the only way to help grow your legacy. London Community Foundation encourages sustainable, forward-thinking philanthropy, and part of that means thinking about the legacy of your fund.

Donors who make a bequest to the Foundation or give a gift of life insurance become members of the Lorraine Ivey Shuttleworth Society(link to specific section in Legacy & Estate Planning) named after a philanthropist who embodied the spirit of building community by being forward-thinking.

May 27, 2024
EducationHealth and WellbeingRacialized and NewcomerYouth

An Update From The Muslim Resource Centre on the Strong Together Fund

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
All Issue AreasGeneral Population

London Community Foundation establishes COVID-19 Response Fund in Partnership with the Lawson Foundation

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
Health and Wellbeing

LCF COVID-19 Response Fund

Led by London Community Foundation in partnership with the Lawson Foundation and Westminster College Foundation, the LCF COVID-19 Response Fund is a collaborative effort to support our community throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 15, 2020

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