Inclusion
June 2007
Report: Care Renewal: The policy implications of 13 caregiver respite projects
Identifies common themes emerging from 13 caregiver respite projects and makes policy recommendations to address the gaps they revealed.
September 2010
Report: YouthScape: A Funder's Perspective
Based on a funder's experience, this paper discusses the design, implementation and evaluation of a complex, emerging initiative (YouthScape). It explores the diversity of strategies – healing, empowering, engaging, and organizing – that community organizations can adopt for involving marginalized young people in community development activities.
2003
Publication: This Day is for Me: Caring for the Caregivers
Describes the caregiving experience, how eight projects have tried to address respite differently, and why it is critically important for all levels of Canadian society to recognize and support the caregivers in our midst.
December 2009
Report: A Dialogue - Free the Children: Final Reflections and our Reply
Youth empowerment and leadership service, Volunteer Now!, reflects on their organization with a reply from the Foundation.
May 2010
Video: Vickie Cammack on Tyze
Keynote speech by Vickie Cammack, President and CEO of Tyze. Tyze creates personal, private, secure, online networks that strengthen relationships and address isolation.
July 2010
Report: YouthScape Guidebook: Changing the Landscape
Through case studies, stories, activities, and practical recommendations, this guidebook offers insights and tools to bring youth engagement to life.
September 2010
Publication: Getting Wisdom: The Transformative Power of Community Service-Learning
An exploratory dialogue on community service-learning and its effects on education systems and communities.
September 2010
Video: Finding Talent
Finding Talent, a video from the ALLIES-managed site hireimmigrants.ca and produced by the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC), is intended to increase the capacity for effectively recruiting, selecting and integrating skilled immigrants. It focuses on issues of sourcing, screening, interviewing, and selection of skilled immigrant candidates.
October 29, 2010
Report: Creative Youth Empowerment: Engaging Our Youth Today to Unlock Tomorrow’s Leaders
Describes the start-up of Youth Fusion, a project that has graduate students leading programs for high school students at underperforming schools, and provides lessons learned during its growth. Originally published in The Philanthropist.
November 1, 2010
Report: How Funders are Supporting Social Innovation: Three Examples from the Youth Sector
A multi-foundation collaborative piece on funder support of youth-led organizations. Includes a segment on the use of developmental evaluation in the Foundation's initiative, YouthScape. Originally published in The Philanthropist.