2014 Grant Recipients
Total Disbursed: $117,425
Bev Dalys presenting cheque to Art City.
The JL Foundation supports the Annual Summer Arts Program which focuses on cultural and artistic development for children and youth in the Greater Toronto Area.
Amount Funded: $9,415
The JL Foundation supports the Arts Program, which provides over 200 children's and youth art workshops throughout the year in Regent’s Park, an under-resourced and under-serviced neighbourhood in downtown Toronto.
Amount Funded: $5,000
Dennis Bonney presenting cheque to Arts Etobicoke Executive Director, Louise Garfield.
The JL Foundation supports free weekly arts classes education for marginalized children in the west Toronto region of Etobicoke.
Amount Funded: $10,000
BC Learning Centre for Children with Dyslexia
The JL Foundation supports the training of volunteer tutors who provide specialized, free tutoring for children with dyslexia in Vancouver.
Amount Funded: $5,000
Community Arts & Heritage Education Project
The JL Foundation supports the Thunder Bay Aboriginal Neighbourhood Arts Engagement Program, which provides accessible, intergenerational arts education for youth and the diverse organizations in Northern Ontario.
Amount Funded: $5,000
Marianne Larsen and Bev Dalys presenting cheque to Dr. Mark Kinghorn, CVO.
The JL Foundation supports The Mission Veterinary Care program, providing pro bono preventative veterinary care for animals of the homeless and street-involved in Ottawa and Toronto.
Amount Funded: $10,000
The JL Foundation supports the Earth Rangers Priority Neighbourhood School Program, which provides science-based programs for students in select high-need schools in the GTA.
Amount Funded: $7,500
Eva’s Initiatives for Homeless Youth
The JL Foundation supports the Eva’s new Education Program (a pilot project) to enhance the employment/training programs and other life/work skills initiatives for the re-integration of homeless youth into academic settings.
Amount Funded: $7,000
Fatal Light Awareness Program Canada
The JL Foundation supports the animal protection-training program of Migratory Bird Education for Youth initiative in the Greater Toronto Area.
Amount Funded: $6,000
The JL Foundation is supports the Beat the Street program, which offers marginalized, street-involved youth who have not completed high school a way back into the education system in Toronto.
Amount Funded: $10,000
The JL Foundation supports the Music Education Expansion Program for children aged 6-8 from high-risk neighbourhoods across the Greater Toronto Area.
Amount Funded: $5,000
Marianne Larsen presenting cheque to Scarborough Women’s Centre.
The JL Foundation supports the Building Strong Futures, a Young Women's Outreach Program. This program works with and empowers young women from underprivileged backgrounds to make positive life choices in the Greater Toronto Area.
Amount Funded: $10,000
The JL Foundation supports the Young Heroes Literacy Project for homeless refugee children and youth in downtown Ottawa.
Amount Funded: $10,000
The JL Foundation supports the Intergenerational Activist Organizing Project, which empowers marginalized young people to become leaders in their community in Peterborough, Ontario.
Amount Funded: $4,510
The JL Foundation supports the program of Transcendence - Take Two where women are encouraged to transcend the boundaries which criminality creates through literacy, leadership and employability programming in Ottawa.
Amount Funded: $5,000
The Hammer Band - From Violence to Violins
The JL Foundation supports expanding their From Violence to Violins program, which provides innovative music education for at-risk children and youth living in high-risk neighbourhoods in the Greater Toronto Area.
Amount Funded: $5,000
The Stop Community Food Centre
The JL Foundation supports the Grade 5 Sustainable Food Systems Education Program which partners closely with schools to teach children about growing food, healthy eating, and increasing their knowledge of food systems issues in Greater Toronto Area.
Amount Funded: $3,000