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Working Poverty Increases in Toronto Region

The number of working poor in the Toronto Region increased by 42% between 2000 and 2005, according to a new study from the Metcalf Foundation. 

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Building the Future City of Toronto

On Tuesday, February 7 Metcalf 50th anniversary grant recipient Diaspora Dialogues, in partnership with MASS LBP, and the Cities Centre launched the Toronto Residents’ Reference Panel on Household Income Report, which explores the widening income gap in Toronto that is characterizing the city’s neighbourhoods. 

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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.