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Province-Wide Program
2006 - 2007
Please note:
We make every effort to show comprehensive grant listings. For official listings of our grants please refer to the Foundation’s Annual Reports or contact us at 1.800.263.2887 or trillium@trilliumfoundation.org.
Ratified by the Ontario Trillium Foundation Board of Directors on March 7, 2007
Alternative Land Use Services - Partnership Advisory Committee (ALUS-PAC) c/o Long Point Foundation for Conservation
$166,500 over two years to test the Alternative Land Use Services model. This program pays farmers a market rate for the ecological use of their land. (An additional grant of $50,000 in Grand River will support this initiative.)
Camp Winston/Pine Bay Foundation
$17,900 over one year to provide a training DVD and workbook to staff in children’s camps across Ontario. This will assist them in caring for children with neurological disorders including Tourette’s Syndrome, AD(H)D and autism.
Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild
$50,700 over three years to expand and co-ordinate the development of volunteer programs. These will help preserve the long-term sustainability and delivery of book-arts programs in different regions of Ontario.
The Canadian Hearing Society
$131,400 over one year to build an accessible and interactive website that supports sign language. This will help to ensure access to information for people who are deaf and hard of hearing in Ontario.
Canadian Parents for French (Ontario) c/o Opera York
$23,000 over one year to bring “L’opéra pour les écoles” to schools in St. Catharines, Peterborough, London and Owen Sound. This program will help introduce students to opera as an art form and enrich the schools’ French-second-language curricula.
Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment c/o Ontario Public Health Association
$264,500 over two years to provide information on environmental toxins to public health inspectors, health practitioners and local champions. This will help them ensure school and daycare environments are made healthier for children.
CAO / Debajehmujig Theatre Co. c/o Community Arts Ontario
$223,000 over 26 months for Breathing Northwinds. This collaborative project will help develop an arts network to link Aboriginal and Northern Ontario arts organizations in 12 urban, rural and remote communities.
Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada (FCFA)
$15,000 over six months to support Sommet des communautés francophones et acadiennes, a national summit to be held in Ottawa in June 2007. Funding will help to remunerate facilitators, note-takers and the volunteer co-ordinator.
Healthy Communities: Creating Capacity for Change c/o Windsor-Essex Brokerage for Personal Supports
$286,600 over three years for communication tools, plans and expertise. These will help people with intellectual disabilities and their support networks understand and adapt to the province’s impending changes to service delivery and support systems.
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario
$234,300 over two years to expand the Start a Heart, Save a Life program to northern and rural communities. Funds will increase awareness of cardiac arrest, train citizens and promote public awareness of automated external defibrillation locations.
Local Flavour Plus
$200,000 over two years to create a new local food-distribution system. This will help stabilize local markets for farmers, revitalize rural communities and reduce the environmental damage caused by long-distance food transportation.
MNO/Frontier Literacy Project c/o Métis Nation of Ontario
$244,300 over two years to establish a literacy program that will use Métis culture and history to enhance the English literacy skills of more than 350 Métis children, youth and adults in Sudbury, North Bay, Toronto and Hamilton.
Mural Routes Inc.
$184,000 over three years for Our Space, an intergenerational mural mentoring program. Artists and youth will connect through forums, workshops and mentorships in Toronto, Central Hastings, Huntsville, Peterborough, Sudbury, Washago and Waterloo.
National Youth In Care Network
$153,100 over two years to offer creative exploration workshops to youth in care across Ontario. The program will help promote academic success, improve employment potential and enhance the well-being and community engagement of youth in care.
North East Ontario Consumer Survivor Network
$170,200 over 18 months for program costs to recruit and train a regional leadership-volunteer network of 360 mental health patients/survivors in Northeastern Ontario.
Ontario AIDS Network
$196,400 over three years to support increased participation of people with HIV/AIDS in the Leadership Development Program. This will result in a pool of volunteers who will provide leadership to AIDS-services organizations across the province.
Ontario Association of Basketball Officials c/o Basketball Ontario
$284,000 over two years to implement the official rules of the international governing body for basketball (FIBA). Coaches and officials will be trained and training tools and resources provided to member clubs.
Ontario Community Food Security Network c/o Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition
$285,500 over three years to increase access to safe, affordable, nutritious and culturally appropriate food. Information, tools and resources will be shared, and training and consultation services provided in many areas of the province.
Ontario Sailing Association
$79,000 over two years to engage eight new communities annually in expanding the Mobile Sailing and Access BOOM programs. These will initially introduce over 1000 youth and adults to sailing including at least 100 people with disabilities.
Ontario Soccer Association
$400,000 over two years to deliver organizational development workshops and resources for volunteers and to host community Play Soccer festivals. This will help build the capacity of district associations and local clubs to deliver soccer programs.
Ontario Wheelchair Sports Association
$200,000 over three years to expand the Bridging the Gap program to Ottawa, London and North Bay. This will help communities provide accessible programs and services, promoting activity and an improved quality of life for people of all abilities.
Ophea and LIN Strategic Partnership c/o Ontario Physical and Health Education Association
$302,100 over three years to develop a bilingual on-line activity planner. This tool will enhance the reach and build the capacity of community coaches, recreation providers and teachers to deliver quality physical activity in Ontario communities.
Pathways to Education Canada
$575,000 over three years to develop the organizational and leadership capacity to replicate the Pathways to Education Program in several Ontario communities. The program helps to reduce the risks and stresses that can hinder learning in high school.
Renewed Strength Inc.
$133,800 over two years to translate and distribute program materials, and recruit and train volunteers. This will expand the organization’s capacity to deliver exercise, strength and mobility programs and resources to cancer patients in Ontario.
Research and Conceptualization Initiative for Extending the Reach of Supportive Care c/o Wellspring Cancer Support Foundation
$325,800 over three years for a collaborative, community-based supportive model of care for Ontarians facing life-threatening illness, particularly cancer. Four test community areas in Barrie, Thunder Bay, Sudbury and Windsor-Essex will be targeted.
Réseau Ontario
$165,000 over three years to expand “Salut”, a school touring network in Northern and Southwestern Ontario. The tour introduces art educators to franco-Ontarian artists and enhances the presence of participating artists in schools and communities.
Seeds of Diversity Canada/Programme Semencier du Patrimoine Canada
$58,000 over 18 months for expertise and program costs to publish the annual seed exchange directory and implement a fundraising strategy. The initiative supports activities that document and conserve Canada’s rare and heritage plant seed gene pool.
Social Planning Network of Ontario c/o Community Development Halton
$259,500 over three years for training and support to 14 local social planning councils. Profiles of the communities will be developed and the data shared, contributing to a social profile of Ontario to assist in planning and service delivery.
Sustainable Urban Development Association
$76,800 over one year to conduct a housing alternatives study. This promotes the understanding and acceptance of compact, sustainable, urban development by municipal planners and land developers through effective communication with the public.
Toronto Festival of Arts, Culture and Creativity
$176,400 over two years for the skills, materials and program costs to recruit and train volunteers and to build relationships to provide arts education residencies in Ontario schools.
Toronto Jewish Film Festival
$151,000 over three years to deliver a film and arts education tour program to students in Southern and Eastern Ontario. This will provide access to and appreciation of film art, and help foster youth awareness of pluralism and social justice.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra Association
$364,000 over two years to establish a cycle of residency tours to Sarnia, Thunder Bay, North Bay, Sudbury and Timmins. Full orchestral performances and educational concerts will be presented, enhancing the arts experience in these communities.
Transitions Action Coalition c/o Open Doors for Lanark Children and Youth
$249,200 over three years to launch the Under One Virtual Roof program in Lanark County with satellites in Greater Sudbury and Chatham. This model is designed to reduce the number of nearly and absolutely homeless youth in rural communities.
Turner's Syndrome Society
$61,000 over two years to conduct information and outreach days in Ottawa, London and Thunder Bay. Updated information will be developed and distributed to females with Turner Syndrome and their families.
World Wildlife Fund Canada
$163,000 over two years for program costs, materials and skills to stimulate power generation through best-in-class co-generation and combined heat and power (CHP) projects. These will reduce greenhouse gas emissions that lead to climate change.
Ratified by the Ontario Trillium Foundation Board of Directors on October 26, 2006
Aboriginal Cancer Care Video Project c/o Shkagamik-kwe Health Centre
$225,200 over two years to produce and disseminate a cancer education video by and for Aboriginal people to demystify treatment and promote healthy lifestyles and the need for early detection.
Canadian Arts Presenters Association
$20,000 over one year to support the posting of an on-line module developed from the Succession Planning for Cultural Organizations seminar presented at the organization’s 2006 conference.
Club Amick c/o Southern Ontario Library Service
$325,000 over five years to operate Club Amick, which will provide books, newsletters and related literacy program materials four times annually to more than 3,000 First Nation children in remote Northern Ontario communities.
Community Arts & Heritage Education Project
$38,000 over two years to implement arts and heritage education programming for children and youth at risk. The project will use a collaborative partnership model with 12 community organizations and conduct outreach to other interested communities. (An additional grant of $115,000 in Northwestern will support this initiative.)
Community EFFORT c/o Ontario Co-operative Association Inc.
$271,500 over four years to strengthen local economies by establishing local resource committees, which will support the success of new, struggling or expanding social enterprises and co-operatives.
Community Living Ontario
$245,000 over three years to create employment opportunities for people who have intellectual disabilities. Partnerships will be established between Rotary Clubs that will identify jobs and local service providers who will supply candidates and support.
Cross Country Ontario
$230,200 over three years to certify more than 350 coaches and learning facilitators in the new competency-based education and training model, improving skills and ensuring participants receive appropriate levels of instruction.
Les Éditions l'Interligne Inc.
$247,000 over three years to hire a full-time touring officer and a communications intern to bring l'Interligne's youth collection into Ontario schools and to purchase equipment for the main office.
Envisioning New Meanings of Disability and Difference c/o YWCA of Peterborough, Victoria and Haliburton
$232,600 over three years to address social exclusion by using innovative arts-based interventions created by women with differences and disabilities to improve women's lives.
ESTEEM Team Association
$260,200 over three years to increase youth volunteerism in communities by expanding the Activate and Aboriginal Athlete and Role Model programs, including mentoring programs and community-based, youth-led sport and recreation initiatives.
FICCDAT Steering Committee c/o Ontario March of Dimes
$71,000 over six months to create an opportunity for family caregivers, seniors and people with disabilities to attend the world's first Festival of International Conferences on Caregiving, Disability, Aging and Technology.
Forest Stewardship Council Canada
$69,800 over one year to design and create a five-year work plan and budget for a program to strengthen the consensus-building and consultation capacities of First Nation, Francophone and rural, remote and resource-based communities.
Indigenous Culture and Media Innovations
$220,400 over 17 months to build partnerships between First Nations and southern urban Aboriginal communities, and provide women and youth with access to media-arts skills development, equipment and an audience for their productions.
JeansMarines
$110,000 over three years to build the organization’s capacity, develop and document coaching programs, enhance its volunteer program and establish 10 chapters across southern Ontario.
The League of Canadian Poets
$20,000 over one year to strengthen the help and advice provided to young poets through the www.youngpoets.ca website, and to create the Youth and Poets' Connection Board where youth can contact a poet and arrange a workshop, visit or mentorship.
Master Gardeners of Ontario Inc.
$107,300 over 18 months to build the capacity and sustainability of the organization by attracting volunteers and community partners and enhancing its training and certification program.
Municipal Cultural Planning Partnerships c/o Community Cultural Impresarios
$230,500 over two years for the implementation of a strategic plan to build the capacity of Ontario communities, helping them adopt local cultural planning and form learning networks to share practices and knowledge about municipal cultural planning.
National Aboriginal Forestry Association
$64,000 over six months to help host the February 2007, national Aboriginal/First Nations conference in Ottawa, on policy changes and best practices for treaty rights and forest management.
Nature Canada
$175,000 over 15 months to support the delivery of the NatureWatch program, encouraging naturalists to submit simple vital observations of the natural world so scientists can better understand and chronicle ecological change throughout Ontario.
Northeastern Ontario Recreation Association
$242,200 over three years to build organizational capacity and expand services for volunteer and professional recreation leaders with more training and development workshops, conferences and opportunities.
Northern Postpartum Outreach Collaborative c/o Canadian Mental Health Association, Association canadienne pour la santé mentale, Sudbury Branch
$158,600 over two years to develop and deliver a peer-provided support and educational program in Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay and New Liskeard for mothers and families living with postpartum depression.
Ojibway and Cree Cultural Centre
$44,000 over one year to develop and publish an English-Cree/Oji-Cree and Ojibway glossary of educational terms for use by language interpreters, educators and community members who speak Cree, Oji-Cree and Ojibway.
Older Adults Centres Association of Ontario
$202,400 over three years to design, conduct and analyze a survey of older adults and seniors' organizations, train 100 volunteer survey leaders, and develop a multi-year action plan to inform stakeholders of the findings and issues identified.
Ontario Association for Families of Children with Communication Disorders
$121,300 over 18 months to expand the Parents as Partners program to 11 Ontario communities. These workshops will help at least 330 families of children with communication disabilities prepare for a smooth transition from pre-school to school services.
Ontario Ball Hockey Association
$228,500 over three years to improve the organization's infrastructure, capacity and support services by certifying additional referees, training all youth coaches and providing French language and technical resources to member leagues.
Ontario Community Support Association
$247,500 over one year to develop a provincial brand that will identify and increase access to community-support services in Ontario, and increase awareness, accessibility and understanding of how these services help Ontarians to live at home.
Ontario Economuseum Corporation
$120,000 over two years to co-ordinate the transformation of six eligible artisan/agri-food enterprises into Economuseum sites in Northern Ontario, increasing cultural tourism and economic development and providing community education.
Ontario Floorball/Unihockey Federation
$31,600 over one year to hire a part-time executive director, support demonstrations of the sport and a clinic to train trainers for athlete, coach and referee development, helping to increases awareness and participation in the sport.
Ontario Sustainable Energy Association
$260,000 over two years to enhance the capacity of the organization, enabling it to help community power organizations develop and implement projects and expand the level of participation of the community power sector.
PhotoSensitive
$216,500 over 18 months to create a photo exhibit and DVD to showcase the not-for-profit sector's work across the province in all sectors.
Project Porchlight
$150,000 over one year to build on the success of the Ottawa pilot project and facilitate its growth into three communities, resulting in 260,000 compact fluorescent light bulbs being used, which will result in $13-million in energy savings.
Réseau ontarien de prévention des agressions a/s Centre ontarien de prévention des agressions
$125,000 over two years to develop and implement a social marketing plan aimed at expanding the prevention of violence programs in the Francophone communities of Ontario.
Save the Oak Ridges Moraine Coalition
$164,000 over three years to develop business and communication strategies and improve outreach abilities, organizational capacities and community connections by engaging grassroots organizations from across the Oak Ridges Moraine region.
SIRCH Community Services and Consulting
$156,800 over 28 months to increase the technological and communication abilities of the organization in order to promote School's Cool in K, a program that increases skills among children who are entering school.
Students' Assembly on Electoral Reform c/o The Students Commission/La Commission des étudiants
$145,000 over seven months to help create the Students' Assembly on Electoral Reform, which will provide youth with an opportunity to participate in their own evaluation of Ontario's electoral system and contribute to the Citizens' Assembly.
Théâtre de la Vieille 17
$175,000 over three years to develop, create and deliver two French theatre projects in three regions, encouraging strong, sustainable partnerships between the participating organizations and individuals.
Trans Canada Trail Ontario
$183,000 over 18 months to enhance the skills of new and existing local trail volunteers to plan, register, raise funds and build the Trans Canada Trail in 10 gap areas in Ontario.
Trees Ontario Foundation
$68,300 over seven months to allow the organization to re-vision and redevelop its business, communications and strategic plans, and enhance its capacity to facilitate and manage its tree planting and reforestation efforts.
Ratified by the Ontario Trillium Foundation Board of Directors on June 29, 2006
Aquatic Federation of Canada / Fédération aquatique du Canada
$50,000 over six months to develop a strategy to improve access to information for decision makers. They will be able to better inform stakeholders about community-pool infrastructure and programming decisions.
Arts Network for Children and Youth
$210,000 over three years to increase the organization’s research base, conduct community mapping and development initiatives in 15 municipalities across Ontario, and enhance communication tools and resources.
Augmentative Communication Community Partnerships Canada
$118,800 over 18 months to develop and distribute a DVD and resource booklet across Ontario that supports people with severe communication disabilities so they can reduce their risk of being abused.
Building Capacity for Social Enterprise in Francophone Ontario (BCSEFO) c/o Canadian Centre for Community Renewal (CCCR)
$223,000 over 21 months to adapt the Wheel of Development model of social enterprise development to the needs of the Francophone communities and to transfer knowledge of this particular model to key service providers in Ontario.
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
$200,000 over three years to reduce human exposure to toxic chemicals by strengthening the organization's operations across Ontario, increasing its membership and long-term sustainability.
Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute
$203,000 over two years to develop scientifically based community strategies for reducing the incidence of childhood and youth obesity through increased participation in sports and physical activity.
Canadian Parks and Recreation Association/Association canadienne des parcs et loisirs
$155,600 over 14 months for 10 one-day workshops in various communities. Recreation staff and volunteers will be provided with tools, information and resources to help increase the participation of children and youth from low-income families.
Canadian Retinoblastoma Society - La Société canadienne du rétinoblastome
$12,800 over one year to plan for the future of the organization, recruit more volunteers and reach more people affected by this hereditary childhood eye cancer.
Clean Air Foundation
$121,000 over three years to support the Switch Out Ontario Program, which encourages the automotive industry to demonstrate environmental stewardship by reducing mercury emissions from the automotive-steel recycling stream.
Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO)
$149,100 over two years to produce and distribute crucial legal information for Ontario's Chinese, Arabic, Tamil, Urdu, Spanish or Somali- speaking low-income communities in both text and audio formats.
CompuCorps Mentoring Inc./Les Mentors de CompuCorps Inc.
$335,000 over three years to implement a tech- mentor volunteer-assistance program, offering bilingual, Northern, First Nations and environmental organizations helpdesk and project management support with their technology-based initiatives.
Dragon Boat Canada / Bateau-Dragon Canada
$190,000 over three years to build organizational capacity to offer a comprehensive sport-development system by stabilizing and growing their administrative, program-delivery, club-development and event-management systems.
Easter Seals Canada
$241,100 over three years to expand the Access 2 Entertainment Card program, which enables people with severe disabilities and their support people to have greater access to movies and other recreational events by reducing the price of admission.
Environmental Earth Angels
$53,900 to complete an information-technology needs assessment and translate educational materials into French.
Financial Capability for Youth c/o Social and Enterprise Development Innovations
$398,300 over three years to provide financial capability training and resources to 110 youth-serving organizations, enabling them to help alleviate a growing concern about youth debt and poverty.
Freestyle Skiing Ontario
$224,000 over three years to improve safety in terrain parks at Ontario ski resorts, and to develop a skier cross-development program to introduce and train Ontario skiers in the newest Olympic ski discipline.
Hospice Association of Ontario
$184,700 over two years to enhance the capacity of Ontario's hospice volunteers to provide high-quality, consistent and compassionate care to terminally ill people through the development and implementation of an accreditation program.
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
$228,900 over two years to launch the Hakken (Discover) Japan project, an outreach and educational program for Ontario children and youth that promotes Japanese arts and culture through partnerships with school boards and industry.
Kawartha Heritage Conservancy
$223,000 over two years to promote, co-ordinate and undertake conservation and stewardship strategies in the Land Between corridor, using more than 20 research and conservation projects to catalogue the ecological and biological character of the area.
Meal Exchange
$87,600 over 18 months to connect alumni aged 25 to 34 years to the organization’s network, including student volunteers aged 18 to 24 years. Mentoring opportunities and professional development tools will be offered through an on-line resource centre.
NEOnet - North Eastern Ontario Communications Network
$245,400 over two years to implement the Seniors' Computer Centres project, establishing computer-training centres in seniors residences and providing training to interested participants in eight Northern Ontario communities.
Ontario Association of Credit Counselling Services
$57,800 over six months for a plan that will increase awareness about the impact of debt and money management and to position the not-for-profit credit counselling agencies to help Ontarians improve their financial health and quality of life.
Ontario Association of the Deaf
$244,100 over 28 months for culturally appropriate, skills-based leadership workshops to increase opportunities for deaf Francophone, Aboriginal and Métis people to work and participate in their communities.
Ontario Cultural Values and Benefits Project c/o CCI - Ontario Presenting Network
$57,500 over three years to research the values and benefits of the arts-audience experience through surveys, focus groups and interviews in six pilots sites, helping develop innovative and responsive marketing strategies for diversified audiences.
Ontario Heritage Connection Society
$94,000 over three years for outreach and marketing efforts that will increase the content, awareness of and uptake on this web-based network. It will act as a virtual clearinghouse of information and resources on heritage activities.
Ontario Horticultural Association
$229,000 over three years to build the fundraising, outreach, volunteer recruitment and membership-building capacity of the organization by hiring a developmental officer to strengthen its environmental stewardship and community education programs.
Ontario Visual Heritage Project: The Shield c/o Living History Multimedia Association
$140,000 over two years to engage communities in Muskoka and Parry Sound districts, Greater Sudbury and Manitoulin Island in the identification and documentation of stories and events that define local heritage.
Orchestre de la francophonie canadienne
$10,000 over six months to offer master classes to young Francophone music students aged 13 to 18 years in Ottawa, Cornwall, Bracebridge and Stratford.
Pipers' and Pipe Band Society of Ontario
$18,600 to upgrade office technology, make the website more user-friendly and help make better use of the membership database, resulting in information being processed and disseminated to members more effectively and efficiently.
Play/rights Collaborative c/o PEN Canada
$304,600 over three years to engage audiences in freedom of expression issues through a theatrical production that includes presentations by exiled writers living in Ontario, and audience participation in public venues and schools in 85 communities.
Provincial Sport Organizations Council
$229,500 over three years to facilitate and support the interests sport organizations, and to develop and strengthen the provincial sports sector through education, enhanced member services, dissemination of resources, research and information.
Sage - Agora Demonstration Project c/o Sage Centre
$165,700 over 18 months to create and demonstrate a new model of managing and mentoring emerging charitable activities. A range of services will be provided that include strategic planning, program development, resource development and staffing.
Society for Educational Visits and Exchanges in Canada, SEVEC
$226,600 over three years to build the organization’s capacity, resulting in an increase in Ontario students’ awareness, access to and participation in learning programs focused on youth engagement.
TEKdesk c/o Community Opportunity & Innovation Network Peterborough Inc.
$156,600 over 18 months to increase the technological capacity of staff, volunteers and patrons of 400 small and rural public libraries. On-line resources will be delivered that combine live support, peer mentoring and e-learning.
Théâtre Action
$160,000 over two years to carry out the research necessary to evaluate the organization’s current activities, host a conference on the state of franco-Ontarian theatre and develop strategies for its continued growth in the future.
Toronto Dragons 2006 (IDBF Club Crew Dragon Boat World Championship)
$90,100 over six months to purchase equipment, certify coaches and officials and train volunteers for the 2006 International Dragon Boat Federation Club Crew World Championships.
Voice for Hearing Impaired Children
$135,600 over two years to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization by training more than 75 volunteers to further develop their skills, knowledge, confidence and capabilities.
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