Partners
ArtHeart Community Art Centre
ArtHeart is a stabilizing presence in the community of Regent Park that provides free visual arts education and creative programs as well as sustenance to children, youth, adults and seniors, ensuring a supportive environment in which participants can create and learn, build self-esteem and develop life skills.
Jumblies/MABELLEarts
Jumblies is a community-focused arts organization that prioritizes inclusive participation as well as artistic process and product, engaging a variety of cultural traditions as well as other sectors such as social and health services, education and urban development. Jumblies’ offshoot MABELLEarts, situated in central Etobicoke, offers a range of programs including the Sewing Room that supports a variety of textile projects.
Sistering
Sistering operates a multi-service women’s centre for homeless, at risk and socially isolated women in Toronto. Core services address basic needs such as daily living, housing support services, primary healthcare, counseling, individual advocacy and employment readiness.
SKETCH
SKETCH is a community arts development initiative engaging young people who are street-involved, homeless and on the margins, creating opportunities to experience the transformative capacity of the arts, building leadership and economic self-sufficiency as well as cultivating social and environmental change.
Workman Arts
Workman Arts empowers aspiring, emerging and established artists with mental illness and addiction issues to develop and refine their art practice through arts training programs and performance/exhibition opportunities in five disciplines: music, theatre, visual, literary and media arts.
Funders
Ruth Mandel – WHO GIVES Fund
Philanthropist Ruth Mandel created the WHO GIVES Fund to reflect and advance her passionate advocacy of issues such as “generosity, the protection of women and social justice,” targeting support for specific transformative initiatives and causes she is personally engaged in.
Private Giving Foundation – TD Wealth
The first donor-advised funds launched by a financial institution in Canada, the Private Giving Foundation is an independent public charity dedicated to encouraging charitable giving, revolutionizing models of philanthropic leadership.