Metcalf Appoints First Innovation Fellow in Performing Arts

The Metcalf Foundation is pleased to announce Jane Marsland as the first recipient of an Innovation Fellowship in the performing arts.  During her fellowship, she will research new and alternative structures for nonprofit arts organizations, with a particular focus on possible models of fiscal sponsorship appropriate for the arts sector.  For Jane’s biography, please visit our Innovation Fellowship page.

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Maytree & Metcalf Foundation Release New Report on Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Immigrant Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship in the GTA by Dr. Sarah Wayland explores whether self-employment and entrepreneurship is a viable option for lifting new Canadians out of poverty in the Greater Toronto Area.

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Toronto Park People releases report

Toronto Park People has just released the first of several reports designed to improve city parks.  Pathway to Parks:  A New Way Forward for Toronto’s Parks has already garnered press coverage with articles in the Toronto Sun and The Globe and Mail, and an interview on Metro Morning with Matt Galloway speaking to Toronto Park People Executive Director, Dave Harvey.

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Welcome to the Dark Horse Conversation!

The Metcalf Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of The Dark Horse Conversation: Nonprofit Leaders Talk about Vocational, Organization and Civic Renewal, the second of two papers by Metcalf Foundation Innovation Fellow Pat Thompson, and the launch of her website, onealphaavenue.org.

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Climate is Culture

On November 10, 2011, Metcalf grantee Cape Farewell held its North American launch at the Dew Line Concert (Patrick Watson and the Wooden Arms pictured above) at Koerner Hall in Toronto. Cape Farewell works to promote a cultural response to climate change through a human-scale vision of the future offered by artists, fostering human and planetary resilience by bringing together creativity, science, technology and business.  For more information, click here.

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Metcalf Launches Inclusive Local Economies Program

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Inclusive Local Economies Program. Our goal is to support people and organizations to develop the ideas, the strategies, and the policies that can improve low-income peoples’ economic livelihoods and access to quality jobs. 

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Democracy as Public Art

At this year’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Diaspora Dialogues, a Metcalf grantee, and Toronto-based engagement firm MASS LBP invite the public to explore the implications of growing polarization in Toronto through a new interactive exhibit.

The public’s discussion contribution during the all-night Public Display of Democracy: The Three Cities Dialogue will help the Toronto’s first Residents’ Reference Panel to tackle the increasing gap between the rich and the poor across the city. For more information, click here.

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Building Community, Engaging Audiences

Andy McKim, Artistic Director of Theatre Passe Muraille, was recently invited to give the keynote address at the Creative New Zealand conference in Auckland.  During his speech, he spoke at length about two important Passe Muraille programs begun with Metcalf support:  the BUZZ Festival, supported through Strategic Initiatives funding, and Theatre Beyond Walls, supported through one of Metcalf’s 50th anniversary grants.  To view Andy’s keynote address, click here.

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