An inclusive society that values and supports the full engagement of it’s young people in the civic, social, economic and cultural life of diverse and environmentally healthy communities.
Committee Members
Finance and Audit
Andre Lewis (Chair)
Paul Fensom (Co-Chair)
Derek Ballantyne
Ken Gibson
Heather Brubacher
Tiffany Chang
Andrew Bedeau
Granting
May Wong (Chair)
Karen Ng (Co-Chair)
Lyon Smith (Co-Chair)
Brenda Pipitone
Bridget Sinclair
Jamie Laidlaw
Cameron Laidlaw
Hanifa Kassam
Governance & recruitment
Jamie Laidlaw (Chair)
Andre Lewis (Co-Chair)
Gave Lindo
Cameron Laidlaw
Derek Ballantyne
Bob Smith
Walter Ross (Advisor)
Jessica Hammell (Advisor)
Nathan Gilbert
Youth Fellowship
Nathan Gilbert
Allan Broadbent
Elizabeth McIssac
Annique Ferrell
May Wong
Investment
Derek Ballanytne (Chair)
Paul Fensom (Co-Chair)
Andre Lewis
John Fox
Ed Kwan
Heather Hunter
Impact Investing
John Fox
Andrew Bedeau
Hanifa Kassam
Youth-led Community Change Advisory Committee
Liban Abokor
Hanifa Kassam
Jessica Hammell
Karen Ng
Dylan Cohen
Nicole Watson
Harnoor Gill
Rihkee Strapp
Sonja Pesko
staff
Tamer Ibrahim
Youth CI
Outreach
Coordinator
Jehad Aliweiwi
Executive
Director
Ana Skinner
Program Manager
Betul Keles
Program Manager
Veanna Octive
Office
Manager
Ajeev Bhatia
Program
Liaison
On to New Adventures: Farewell Susan brand
For close to a decade, Susan was the friendly face and welcoming voice of the Laidlaw Foundation and more recently, Foundation House. Her warmth and awesome sense of humour helped make the Foundation home to our staff, partners, grantees and volunteers. She was a constant champion of our work and the young people we support, helping make the Foundation inviting and accessible to the communities we work with. Susan left Laidlaw Foundation in October 2016 to pursue new and exciting opportunities. We wish her the best.
On March 7th, 2017, we lost a
dear colleague and friend.
Merle Young was the Manager of Finance at the Laidlaw Foundation from 2001-2012, a job title that hardly captures the essential role she played bringing our team together, ensuring our operations ran smoothly and championing of our work.
In my early years with the Foundation, Merle was my rock, someone I learned from and leaned on. Merle had a chair in her office that in any other context was an ordinary office chair. But for us, it was the place we came to sit, to pause, to laugh, to vent. Merle’s door was always open and this chair was always free.
A daily ritual in our office was meeting in the kitchen, as Merle slowly and with intention, cut apples, banana bread or muffins into bit sized pieces, to then offer up to share. She taught me that it was a red-tailed hawk circling our office and that there were turkey vultures roosting on a building nearby. And the views from our building took on new wonder through her eyes. She took her time, and relished moments. And this brought calm to all of us.
I found a kindred soul with Merle, someone who loved apples, hiking, camping, standing in the warmth of the sun on a winter day as much as me. I will miss her deeply,
Ana Skinner
In 2016, we deepened our commitment to championing youth educational attainment, especially for young people involved in the justice system.
Through research, granting and convening, we are increasing our understanding of the challenges and opportunities to support educational re-engagement within detention centres and in the transition back to community. Among our diverse portfolio, we are working with the Canadian Civil Liberties Association on a significant research project to provide better insight into the realities of educational attainment for youth in detention. On the granting side, we supported a range of initiatives focused on access to education and youth justice. In this report, we highlight six of these initiatives.
Furthering our commitment to creating more supportive conditions for grassroots, youth-led work, the Foundation launched two studies on shared administration platforms, the structural innovation that enables unincorporated groups to access funding and administrative supports to bring their projects to life. We continue to convene our grantees for strategic learning purposes to inform our policy and systems change agenda.
2016 provided us with significant opportunities to expand our reach. This includes the Youth Collective Impact program in partnership with the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation’s Innoweave initiative, and with the support of the Ministry of Children and Youth Services (MCYS). Through Youth CI, we are working with diverse communities and stakeholders across Ontario to support measurable change in the lives of young people. In addition, we are co-convening the Youth Funders Network, bringing together youth-focused funders working provincially and nationally. And we are active in the Provincial Partnership Table: a table that contributes to the Collective Impact for Disconnected Youth initiative led by MCYS.
The Foundation’s move to Foundation House provided Laidlaw with a new home that is quickly becoming a destination for philanthropy. A priority for the year was to ensure a smooth transition to the new space without significant interruption to the work of the Foundation. We began the move at the end of February and the first day of business at Foundation House was February 29, 2016.
No year is without challenges, and this year had a few. The implementation of an Indigenous strategy has taken longer than we had hoped for, however, this is allowing us to build our knowledge and design a strategy that commits deeply and long-term to support the national conversation on reconciliation. The endowment continues to perform despite adverse market conditions and we are able to meet our disbursement quota without impacting the principal capital.
Moving forward, we will focus on the development of a responsive Indigenous strategy, pursue impact investing and deepen our focus on the youth justice system.
The work of the Foundation is a labour of love for the Board and the staff. We want to take a moment and say thank you to the dedicated team of employees who bring passion and talents to the Foundation each and every day and to the Board who volunteers their time and energy to ensure that the Foundation’s resources are allocated with thoughtfulness and accountability.
Hanifa Kassam, Jehad Aliweiwi,
Board Chair Executive Director
Systems-Level Change
The Foundation identifies at least one issue impacting youth where we have directly helped make a measurable systemic change.To achieve this goal, we are committed to building strong youth-led organizations in key policy areas, incubating creative ideas coming from young people, and having our grantees inform research and advocacy efforts.
Knowledge Generation
The Foundation has a robust information gathering system that collects information from grant recipients and is the basis of our research and policy positions. To achieve this goal, we committed to working with grantees to develop reporting systems that delivers useful information without being a burden to them, and commissioning and conducting research.
NOTE: The map of Ontario indicates the location of all of the Foundations’ granting activities in 2016. Each arrow is a representation of at least one grant made in that respective area.
Brampton, ON
Brockville, ON
Burlington, ON
Etobicoke, ON
Hamilton, ON
Lanark County, ON
London, ON
Newmarket, ON
North Bay, ON
Oakville, ON
Ottawa, ON
Parry Sound, ON
Peterborough, ON
Prince Edward County, ON
Richmond Hill, ON
Sarnia, ON
Scarborough, ON
Stratford, ON
Waterloo, ON
Welland, ON
Advocate and Champion
The Foundation is recognized as a leader in generating useful information about the issues facing young people, in disseminating that information and in proposing solutions to these issues. To achieve this goal, we committed to sharing what we are learning through events and publications.
Expanding Our Reach
The Foundation doubles the financial impact of the organization through collaboration with appropriate partners and through creative use of our capital resources.To achieve this goal, we committed to developing an impact investment plan, increasing funding available to the youth sector and using our financial resources to support our vision.
Changing the Education System
to Meet the Needs of All Students
Grants – 9
Total awarded - $656,860
Program Description
The Foundation is investing in youth-driven community based education strategies (CBES) that reach young people pushed out of, or marginalized, by the formal education system. The Foundation also invests in initiatives that support young people to attain credits, to re-engage with the school system and to graduate or pursue further education or training. Community-based Education Strategies are developed by communities, young people and educators to reach young people who are not being served effectively by the education system and to create opportunities for them to reengage with their education in more meaningful and empowered ways.
what we are working towards
• Student (re)engagement with education (# of credits attained, graduation, transitions)
• Changes in institutional practices & policies related to community-school collaboration
• How effective CBES strategies are for engaging different populations of students
(ie. inclusive curriculum, experiential learning, wraparound services, student advocacy)
• New insights into ways to improve educational policies and services for young people
organization
Albion Neighbourhood Services
Centre[3] for Print
and Media Arts
Foodshare
York University Faculty Association Foundation
Teach 2 Learn
Teach for Canada
Trust 15 Youth Community Support Organization
Black Creek Community Health Centre
Youth Leaps
PROJECT NAME
Amadeusz
Nu Steel
School Grown
Success Beyond Limits
Academic Success for Youth
Conoser
Trust 15
Youth Association for Academics Athletics and Character Education
Learn2Work!
location
Toronto, ON
Hamilton, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
AMOUNT
$75,000
$75,000
$57,056
$75,000
$75,000
$75,000
$75,000
$75,000
$74,804
Amadeusz launched The Look at my Life Project in 2009. The project provides the opportunity resources and support for people ages 18-30 to complete high school and attend post secondary schooling while held on remand in Ontario. Today, 107 people have completed their high school education while incarcerated of which 97 are General Education Development Certificates (GED) and 10 Ontario Secondary School Diplomas (OSSD). We have also had 99 young people participating in post secondary courses, with 64 young people completing 103 post secondary courses while incarcerated. Over the past year we have also completed two additional manuscripts which have been submitted for publication and have lead the completion of a multi-stakeholder research project titled Look at my Life: Youth identified sparks for firearm possession in Toronto.
Click the video above to watch a whiteboard animation of the reality of education on the inside for young people on remand in Ontario and the opportunities that Amadeusz provides.
project name: Amadeusz
Location: Toronto, ON
Funding stream: Changing the Education System to Meet the Needs of All young people
Youth-Led Community Change
grants – 20
Total awarded - $403,337
Program Description
The Foundation provides funding to youth-led groups across Ontario to identify issues that are affecting their communities and implement projects that bring awareness to their experiences.
what we are working towards
• Young people develop skills and increase their leadership capacity
• Adult Allies work more collaboratively & share power with young people
• Increased partnerships between youth-led groups and unlikely & likely allies
• New insights into ways to improve policies and services for young people
• Changes in institutional practices & policies to be more inclusive of young people
organization
AM Collective
Baby Steps Parenting
Assya-Khadija Moustaqim-Barrette
For Youth Initiative
Breakaway Addiction Services
Cipher
RNJ Youth Services
DreBu
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
Level
Life Change Adventures
London Youth
Advisory Council
Hibaq Gelle
Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration
Sexual Assault Centre London
Naima Raza
Toronto Youth
Food Policy Council
Mariah Atatise-Jourdain
Tiffany Schofield
Young Diplomats Ethiopian Youth Development Group
PROJECT NAME
Where Are You From Collective
Turn The Page
Be a Spot of Ground
Black Women in Motion
Pieces to Pathways
Cipher Circles + Workshops
Connections
Toronto Youth Peer Support - Himalayan Network
Bolton Girls Can Too Summer Program
Dare to Dream
Project Breakthrough
West Side Stories
Project Toosoo
Reclaim Honour/Luminance: A Participatory Photo-Voice Project with Syrian Youth
For Youth By Youth: YES Conference
Team Student Voice: My LKDSB
Growing Youth Leaders in the Food System
Wasauksing Youth Regalia Group
Y+ Contemporary
Teret Teret: Storytelling to Bridge our Intergenerational Gap
location
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Oakville, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Brampton, ON
Brockville, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Ottawa, ON
Waterloo, ON
London, ON
Etobicoke, ON
London, ON
London, ON
Sarnia, ON
Toronto, ON
Parry Sound, ON
Scarborough, ON
Toronto, ON
AMOUNT
$9,940
$25,000
$6,963
$25,000
$24,438
$19,545
$25,000
$25,000
$25,000
$20,000
$23,827
$23,391
$24,767
$23,123
$9,000
$25,000
$10,681
$12,020
$25,000
$20,642
project name: Level
Location: Ottawa, ON
Funding stream: Youth-Led Community Change
Established in 2005, Level is a charitable organization that aims to level the playing field and increase access to justice for marginalized communities. Through its specialized outreach initiative, “Dare to Dream,” Level empowers Indigenous youth through interactive justice education workshops that build confidence and leadership skills. The program also advances reconciliation by developing relationships between Indigenous youth and the justice sector, and by raising awareness of Indigenous protocols, customs and beliefs in the general community.
The Laidlaw Foundation joined Level as a funder of Dare to Dream in July 2016, supporting the delivery of the program this year in Toronto, Ottawa and the Rama First Nation, reaching 50+ youth. Highlights include working with youth visiting Ontario from the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, visiting the Honourable Justice Harry LaForme’s chambers in the Ontario Court of Appeal, and touring the Supreme Court of Canada.
Youth Sector Innovation: PopUps
Grants – 29
Total awarded - $14,500 ($500 each)
Program Description
A cornerstone strategy developed through the Youth Sector Innovation stream is PopUps. These are micro-grants issued around issue areas that the Foundation wants to bring greater attention.
what we are working towards
• Expanding the Foundation’s reach
• Developing partnerships and collaborations
organization
#SaveOurSomaliYouth
#SitTO
Bengali Information and Employment Services Youth Council
Blackwater Arts Collective
Blossom Abundant Vision Sports Foundation
Canadian Tamil Youth Development
Dundas and Manning Community Park
Eagle Canada Human Rights
Enables Me
Feminist Canada
Gap Gen
Hong Fook Mental Health Association
Juan Saavedra
L.I.G.H.T.
Life Change Adventures
Lifted By Purpose
Nipissing First Nations Art Collective
North BurLINKton/3 Things for Burlington
The Hincks Dellcrest Treatment Centre
Peers Against Youth Violence
PIECE OF MINE Festival
Sexual Assault Centre London
Springtide Resources
Trinity Theatre
Welland Heritage Council and Multicultural Centre
York Region Gay Straight Alliance
Youth Artists Hub
Youthspeak Performance Charity
PROJECT NAME
Ball 4 Keeps
Toronto City Hall -
Green Roof Activation
Placemaking Project
Mural Project
Community Unity Games
Community Unity Games
Do Learn
OUT on the Island &
OUT at the CNE
Enabling Access to the Zoo with Access 2
Young Women in Toronto Politics
Gap Gen
Hong Fook Youth Drop-in
Surveillance of the Body: A Public Drawing Class For Body Conscience LGBTTIQQ2SA Youth
Change Starts Today
Surprise Your World
Tattoo Stories
Indigenous Arts Showcase
Know your Neighbour, Know your Community
Outside the Box
Anti-Youth Violence Initiative
Straight Outta Stratford
I Am Feminist Art
All Bodies
Leadership for Life: MacGregor Point Camping
Youth Community Integration and Inclusion
OUT ‘N’ ABOUT
You Are What You Eat
Big BAM Challenge
location
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
North Bay, ON
Etobicoke, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Newmarket, ON
Toronto, ON
Newmarket, ON
Toronto, ON
Richmond Hill, ON
Waterloo, ON
Richmond Hill, ON
North Bay, ON
Burlington, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Stratford, ON
London, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Welland, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Youth Sector Innovation
grants – 4
Total awarded - $99,901
Program Description
Youth Sector Innovation grants enable the Foundation to invest in innovative projects in the Youth Sector, engage in collaborative funding and expand our reach. The primary focus is on working with new partners, unusual suspects, and through collaborative efforts, to expand the reach and impact of the Foundations work.
what we are working towards
• Expanding the Foundation’s reach
• Developing partnerships and collaborations
partnership projects
The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal People in Canada
Tides Canada Foundation: Ontario Indigenous Partnership Project
Community Foundations of Canada
Toronto Public Space Initiative: Toronto Road Mural Project
location
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Ottawa, ON
Toronto, ON
AMOUNT
$24,900.70
$25,000
$25,000
$25,000
As the founder of Baby Steps Parenting my team and I has had much success developing a unique parenting program that helps promotes literacy in the home called Turn the Page. Turn the Page program is an art-based literacy program that empowers marginalized parents through the art of storytelling by giving them the opportunity to publish their first children’s book for their child and have it showcased in the community.
This program has been modified for participants at Elizabeth Fry and those in their aftercare program to ensure it is an inclusive and meaningful experience for them. Young mothers in the program have the opportunity to create a timeless keepsake by self-publishing their first children’s book for their child. For the mothers who may not have immediate access to their child but still want to participate they have the option to write a creative children story for their inner child.
project name: Baby Steps
Location: Toronto, ON
Funding stream: Youth-Led Community Change
Capacity Building,
Training and Skills Development
grants – 12
Total awarded - $45,828
Program Description
The Foundation recognizes the need for strong grantee partners and other relevant stakeholders responding to needs of communities across. Many groups face roadblocks, challenges or see opportunities where some external expertise could increase their effectiveness. The Foundation provides funding for groups/organizations and individuals seeking specific training to enhance their operational and leadership capacities, organizational effectiveness, program delivery, sustainability and to build new skills.
what we are working towards
• Increasing the capacity of groups/organizations working in the youth-led sector so that they can deliver quality programming more efficiently and effectively (organizational development)
• Strengthening the ability of individuals working in the youth-led sector (professional development)
• Increasing the capacity of the youth-led sector as a whole and contribute to its knowledge base
organization
Sandra Campbell
Albion Neighbourhood Services
Planned Parenthood Toronto
Network Community Inc.
Delisle Youth Services
Doorsteps Neighbourhood Services
Kababayan Community Services Centre Inc.
Operation Come Home
Toronto Ward Museum
Sarah Tariq
Native Youth Sexual Health Network
Victoria Alleyne
PROJECT NAME
AbundanceGTA
Amadeusz
Bad Subject
CatalystsX
Sarah Hamdi
Muslimah Cracking Code
CSCI Okuta Consulting
location
Toronto, ON
Hamilton, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
AMOUNT
$5,000
$5,000
$3,780
$4,804.46
$5,000
$5,000
$5,000
$5,000
$1,000
$276.85
$5,000
$967.10
Research in Action
grants – 5
Total awarded- $154,395
Program Description
The Foundation supports research to generate immediate, relevant knowledge of youth issues and the youth sector, to engage in public-policy related activities, specifically focusing on the education system, youth justice system and the not-for-profit sector, and to inform its advocacy agenda. The Foundation makes research grants to organizations and individuals with expertise and lived experience.
what we are working towards
• Generating immediate, relevant knowledge
• Engaging in public-policy
• Informing the advocacy agenda
PROJECT NAME
Tides Canada: Galloway/Orton Park (The Reading Partnership)
Amadeusz
Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Youth Leaps:
Somali Youth Violence
Cross Over Youth Project/Ryerson University
location
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
Toronto, ON
AMOUNT
$25,000
$5,000
$51,900
$47,495
$25,000
The Access to Education Project
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) is a national, non-profit, independent, non-governmental organization working to advance fundamental human rights and civil liberties. Since 1964, the CCLA has been at the forefront of protecting fundamental freedoms and democratic life in Canada.
In partnership with the Laidlaw Foundation, CCLA is conducting research to explore the current state of education in youth detention centres in Ontario, with a particular focus on youth who have experienced temporary detention (remand). The research will:
• Explore challenges and best practices in ensuring continuity of education through conversations with educators, correctional staff and justice professionals with experience of the system;
• Seek to discover pedagogical approaches, challenges and barriers in working with this student population;
• Examine perceptions of environmental factors that may enhance or create problems for an effective educational experience;
• Reflect and report on the insights provided by project participants in relation to the province-wide policy guidelines currently in place, with the goal of identifying successes and potential gaps between policy expectations and situational realities.
project name: Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Location: Toronto, ON
Funding stream: Research in Action
Nathan Gilbert Youth
Innovation Fellowship
grants – 1
Total awarded- $20,000
Program Description
The Youth Innovation Fellowship is a unique opportunity for young individuals, community workers, activists, changemakers, organizers, thought leaders and researchers to explore ideas that can impact public policies affecting them, their families, and communities.
what we are working towards
• Fill gaps in research,
• Engage in policy development,
• Access professional development opportunities
• Inform the Foundation’s advocacy work
Nathan Gilbert Youth Innovation Fellow Herleen Sayal visualizes how youth are pushed out of the public education system in York Region. Click below to read her blog.
Herleen's post
PROJECT
Sunny Dhillon
location
Toronto, ON
AMOUNT
$20,000
Under the Nathan Gilbert Youth Innovation Fellowship Sunny Dhillon is exploring how Ontario can reach the benchmarks many American jurisdictions have adopted in abolishing the use of solitary confinement (secure isolation in the Ontario context). As a research fellow, Sunny will examine best practices in other jurisdictions, and the opportunities and challenges in Ontario to abolishing solitary confinement for youth.
Sunny is currently a Researcher and Program Evaluator at the John Howard Society of Ontario. He is involved in numerous activities regarding the Society’s work in this role, most notably: he is the lead researcher on a youth bail project funded by the Law Foundation of Ontario; a co-chair on the Housing, Health and Justice Community of Interest; will be beginning his appointment on Legal Aid Ontario’s Criminal Law Advisory Committee in May; actively involved in research and coalition work regarding health in prisons; and leads several evaluations of John Howard Society local office programs on at-risk youth as well as housing.
Sunny has completed an MSc with Distinction in Criminology and Criminal Justice Research Methods at the University of Oxford, as well as an M.A. in Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. He has also worked as a Senior Statistics Officer for the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.
project name: Sunny Dhillon
Location: Toronto, ON
Funding stream: Nathan Gilbert Youth
Innovation Fellowship
Changing the Not-For-Profit sector
grants – 1
Total awarded- $41,400
Program Description
The Foundation supports research to generate immediate, relevant knowledge of youth issues and the youth sector, to engage in public policy related activities, specifically focusing on the education system, youth justice system and the not-for-profit sector, and to inform its advocacy agenda. The Foundation makes research grants to organizations and individuals with expertise and lived experience.
what we are working towards
• Increased funding & supports available to youth-led groups
• Better practices between Shared Platforms & Unincorporated Youth-led Groups
• Policy/Legislative change at Revenue Canada
PROJECT NAME
Ontario Nonprofit Network
location
Toronto, ON
AMOUNT
$41,400
youth collective impact
grants – 9
Total awarded - $700,000
Program Description
With the Youth CI program in its second year, many organizations from across Ontario continue to express interest in using the Collective Impact model.
In working with our partners at the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation’s Innoweave platform and with the support of the Ministry of Children & Youth Services, Youth CI continues to provide groups of organizations with workshops, coaching and grants to create meaningful change for youth in communities across the province.
PROJECT NAME
Cyber Self-Defense Network
London Child and
Youth Network
Lanark Consortium
A Way Home Peterborough
Prince Edward County
Youth Collective Impact
Collective Impact for
Toronto Youth
Prevent and End Youth Homelessness
Equity in Education
Partnering for Success in Youth Employment
location
Toronto, ON
London, ON
Lanark County, ON
Peterborough, ON
Prince Edward County, ON
Toronto, ON
Kingston, ON
Ottawa, ON
Ottawa, ON
AMOUNT
$40,000
$40,000
$40,000
$40,000
$40,000
$150,000
$150,000
$50,000
$150,000
Direct Your Life was started in the year 2015 with a vision to create a resource for people who are transitioning from a correctional facility back into the community. In the first year of its operations, ‘Direct Your Life’ did a rapid assessment of existing reintegrating programmes and resources in the Greater Toronto Area to discover a dearth of serious, structured interventions with people in those areas. The team from ‘Direct Your Life’ visited more than 6 halfway houses and several resource centers operating in the area to learn about the skill development of youth/adults while reintegrating in the area. In these visits, most of the parole officers, community resource coordinators and social workers voiced a need to build leadership among their clients and motivate them to take complete responsibility for their future.
The success of the initiative inspired them to continue the program with people who are reentering back into the community. Now in its second year of operation, ‘Direct Your Life’ has started conducting Leadership Development skill building and mentoring in 2 different halfway homes.
project name: Direct Your Life
Location: Toronto, ON
Funding stream: Youth Collective Impact
LAIDLAW FOUNDATION -
financial statements & portfolio overview
for the year ended December 31, 2016
Asset Mix
Fixed Income
Cash and Equivalents
Bonds
Equity
Canadian Equity
US Equity
International Equity
Total
30-Sep-2016
Market Value
25,685,586
2,171,751
23,513,835
47,558,519
17,134,611
17,921,001
12,502,907
73,244,105
31-Dec-2016
Market Value
24,447,668
1,789,466
22,658,203
49,742,147
18,099,029
19,004,004
12,639,114
74,189,815
% Assets
35.1
3.0
32.1
64.9
23.4
24.5
17.1
100.0
% Assets
33.0
2.4
30.5
67.0
24.4
25.6
17.0
100.0
Policy Range
0% - 15%
30% - 50%
50% - 70%
15% - 25%
35% - 45%
35% - 45%
Annual Income
Estimate
660,017
9,217
650,801
1,209,842
474,437
345,238
390,168
1,869,860
Curr.
Yield %
2.7
0.5
2.9
2.4
2.6
1.8
3.1
2.5
Expenditures:
Grants and charitable activites:
Youth Collective Impact Initiative (note 9)
Community-based education strategy
Youth-led Community Change
Administrative expenditures allocated to grants and charitable activities
Research, communications aand convening
Program development
Youth Sector Innovation PopUp/Fellowship
Changing Not-for-Profit Sector
Capacity Building Training and Skills Development
Youth Organizing
Administrative:
Investment and management fees
Salaries and benefits
Rent
Office and other
Meeting and travel
Legal and audit
Amortization of capital assets
Goods and services tax
Loss on disposal of capital assets
Advisory committees’ honoraria
Administrative expenditures allocated to grants and charitable activities
Total expenditures
Revenue:
Investment income (note 7)
Grant income - Youth Collective Impact Initiative (note 9)
Amortization of deferred capital contributions
Other
Excess of revenue over expenditures
2016
$
$ 832,671
656,860
403,348
319,102
265,864
206,805
149,401
70,356
47,778
-
2,952,185
320,666
252,645
120,165
113,235
67,130
33,814
25,800
18,869
10,620
3,160
(319,102)
647,002
3,599,187
4,602,266
834,930
-
1,298
5,438,494
$ 1,839,307
2015
$
$ 658,665
600,224
283,351
294,098
260,654
182,147
153,000
76,275
141,897
21,900
2,653,211
309,422
290,141
73,306
114,009
21,578
36,804
7,824
19,597
-
1,550
(294,098)
580 133
3,233,344
6,696,081
681,497
5,170
764
7,383,512
$ 4,150,168
