Funding Area
Communities
Partnering with equity-denied groups to support their leadership.
Supporting community-led leadership
In 2024 we updated our Communities strategy. This refinement was developed in collaboration with AgentsC consultants and guided by insights from a community advisory board.
A key update was the introduction of a new strategic pillar: regeneration, which focuses on supporting community-led solutions that enable recovery from historical harm.
Alongside our existing pillars — policy change and collaborative action — this approach strengthens our commitment to investing in community leadership to address systemic issues. With this refined strategy, we support efforts to drive policy and social norms changes, foster collective action and promote unity, and enable regenerative initiatives that help communities heal from historical harm and trauma.
$7.71M
in contributions
We allocated $7.71 million to our Communities focus area.
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Communities partners
In 2024 we developed partnerships with 17 organizations through our Communities focus area. We continued or renewed partnership with 36 organizations.
A spirit of community
Akoma Holdings, rooted in the historic African Nova Scotian communities of Lake Loon/Cherry Brook, North Preston, and East Preston, is transforming 320 acres of land into an Africentric hub for economic and social development.
$750,000
Building a spirit of community for generations to come
Community resilience
The Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts (CNCLT) supports the growth of community land trusts (CLTs) across the country, dedicated to enabling the collective and permanent stewardship of land.
$279,000