Posted 8 months ago.
Terry Jackson had a lot to share with the Huronia Community Foundation. The Chair of Community Foundations of Canada’s Board of Directors recently addressed the foundation’s Annual...
Year: 2012Posted 8 months ago.
Along with our national report – Canada’s Vital Signs 2012 – Vital Youth - community foundations in 14 communities across Canada also released Vital Signs 2012 reports last week....
Year: 2012Posted 8 months ago.
Community Foundations of Canada’s recent Vital Youth Café brought together a multitude of individuals – mainly youth, but there were also others on hand to help move the...
Year: 2012Posted 8 months ago.
Vital Youth Café, the dialogue and design workshop hosted by Community Foundations of Canada in Ottawa this week, gave Montreal-based youth activist Jonathan Glencross the shot in the arm he...
Year: 2012Posted 9 months ago.
That’s what you get when you involve young people – Generation Flux, if you will – in the decision-making process. “They will make sure you walk the talk,” Marc...
Year: 2012Posted 9 months ago.
Canada’s Vital Signs 2012 - Vital Youth launched yesterday, focusing on the myriad issues facing Generation Flux. We garnered lots of media attention, which kept CFC’s President and CEO...
Year: 2012Posted 9 months ago.
These days there are no easy solutions. Issues are increasingly complex and interdependent. For instance we know that educational attainment influences income, health, even voting behaviours and... x 3
Year: 2012Posted 9 months ago.
Many of the National Alliance for Children and Youth (NACY)’s members across Canada have been reporting that they are struggling with capacity, delivery and sustainability challenges. We are... x 14
Year: 2012Posted 9 months ago.
Youth will be the focus of CFC's 2012 Canada's Vital Signs report, to be released during a special presentation by President & CEO Ian Bird at Carleton University's School of Public Policy... More
Year: 2012Posted 9 months ago.
Each fall Community Foundations of Canada releases its national Vital Signs report, and youth issues have consistently been flagged every year since its inception in 2006. We know education,... More
Year: 2012Posted 9 months ago.
These days there are no easy solutions. Issues are increasingly complex and interdependent. For instance we know that educational attainment influences income, health, even voting behaviours and... x 3 More
Year: 2012Posted 9 months ago.
A program spearheaded by London Community Foundation is proving the transformative power of sport. The London Sport Leadership Program offers a unique opportunity for at-risk youth to obtain... More
Year: 2012Posted 9 months ago.
Sustainability has long been a hot-button issue in Clayoquot Sound. Twenty years ago, the community was at a crossroads, with residents looking for ways to be more sustainable while continuing the... More
Year: 2012Posted 9 months ago.
It’s an unfortunate Catch-22 facing many high-school students across the country – they can’t get a job because they have no experience, and they can’t get experience... More
Year: 2012Posted 11 months ago.
Obesity is one of the easiest health conditions to recognize; yet finding a remedy is proving difficult. More
Year: 2011Posted 9 months ago.
Canadians who allocate a high proportion of their income for housing are more vulnerable to an abrupt change in financial circumstances. More
Year: 2012Posted 9 months ago.
Canadians who are charged a meter rate based on volume seem to use much less water. x 2 More
Year: 2012