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Fair Vote Canada (FVC) is a Kitchener, Ontario-based grassroots, nonprofit, multi-partisan citizens' movement—created in June 2001—that calls for the replacement of the first-past-the-post electoral system with proportional representation, as part of electoral reform in Canada. [14] [15] Friends of Canadian Broadcasting political
Community Living Ontario was founded on April 27, 1953, as the Ontario Association for children with intellectual disabilities. In 1987, the name of the organization was changed to the Ontario Association for Community Living. In 2008, Community Living Ontario added eight new affiliates.
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation: $35 million Peter Munk Charitable Foundation: $30 million Physicians' Services Incorporated Foundation: $99 million (2014) R. Howard Webster Foundation: $90 million Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation: $20.8 million (2015) Rick Hansen Foundation: 13.6 million Saskatoon Community Foundation: $64.3 million
Aside from the name rebranding, the Arc Ontario also announced that it had implemented the largest wage increase in the company's history, having first taken effect on Sept. 9 of last year.
In September 2017, the organization moved to a new headquarters in downtown Toronto, named "WE Global Learning Centre". [30] The Centre features a theatre, broadcast studio, and an open concept design. [31] In March 2020, a significant proportion of the board of directors at WE Charity was abruptly replaced.
The organization was initially named "Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere". As they extended their efforts to include bisexual and transgender issues, they felt that the acronym was not inclusive enough, and therefore changed the name from the acronym E.G.A.L.E. to simply "Egale" (égale being the French word for "equal") in 2001. [2]
The organization officially changed its name to Ontario March of Dimes in 1973, and gradually expanded to include other service areas such as recreational activities, advocacy and supportive housing. It reconnected to its origins in 1985 by creating a chapter-based support and information network for people experiencing post-polio syndrome , or ...
The 519 is one of the City of Toronto's agencies and corporations, alongside organizations like Build Toronto, Exhibition Place and the Toronto Public Library. [4] Led by a community board of directors, rather than the city's parks and recreations department, The 519 leverages community insight, knowledge and resources to determine usage of the building.