2012 Grant Recipients
Total Disbursed: $94,500
Ian Esquivel, delivering cheque to members of Arts Etobicoke.
The JL Foundation supports the Storefront Arts program for marginalized children from the in North Etobicoke and Rexdale area.
Amount Funded: $10,000
Canadian Federation of Humane Societies
The JL Foundation provides funding to support CFHS negotiations with animal industry leaders to update and strengthen the codes that define standards for the treatment of animals.
Amount Funded: $6,500
Community Arts and Heritage Education Project
The JL Foundation provides support for the Thunder Bay Aboriginal Arts Program, which introduces students to the Anishinabek culture The program has been developed in consultation with elders, Aboriginal artists and heritage programmers and the Thunder Bay Aboriginal Arts & Heritage Group.
Amount Funded: $5,000
The JL Foundation provided funding for an additional 60 vulnerable children from NW Toronto neighbourhoods to participate in DAREarts educational programs, to build values and life skills through curriculum-based workshops in the arts.
Amount funded: $5,000
JL Foundation Board Member, Ian Esquivel, and Moshe Hammer.
Hammer Band From Violence to Violins
The JL Foundation supports the Violence to Violins Program, which provides innovative music education for at-risk children and youth living in the Jane-Finch community in Toronto.
Amount funded: $5,000
The JL Foundation is providing support for 5 inner city school arts and learning projects to build opportunities for children in Toronto’s socio-economically challenged neighbourhood.
Amount funded: $5,000
The Ottawa Network for Education
The JL Foundation supports the OttawaReads program, which draws volunteers from the corporate or public sector to read one-on-one to students from economically disadvantaged schools.
Amount funded: $5,000
The JL Foundation supports the Peel CAS’s Financial Literacy Program, which is aimed at helping children in care understand money management concepts.
Amount funded: $4,000
The JL Foundation provides support for the program, Building Strong Futures, which empowers young women by providing workshops, leadership and mentoring.
Amount funded: $10,000
The JL Foundation supports the SAE’s literacy, leadership and employability programming for at risk young women in the Ottawa area.
Amount funded: $10,000
The JL Foundation provides support for street involved and homeless people across the Greater Toronto Area to engage in the arts within a studio environment and in the community.
Amount funded: $10,000
Successful Transitional Avenues for Youth
The JL Foundation supports an outreach program in the County of Lanark and the Town of Smiths Falls focusing on preventing youth homelessness.
Amount funded: $10,000
The JL Foundation supports this multi-media learning and training centre created for Aboriginal youth in Northern Ontario and persons of diversity.
Amount funded: $9,000