Toronto Community Foundation uses a unique business model to meet its mission

By Heather Fletcher

FS: Pathways to Education Canada nominated TCF for the award. How, for example, do TCF's efforts benefit that organization?

RB: In addition to the grants we issue each year on behalf of our fundholders, we have three grant programs of our own, one of which is called Vital Ideas. Pathways to Education Canada received two Vital Ideas grants from us, once in 2005 and again in 2007, in support of its education programs targeting youth from the disadvantaged communities of Regent Park, Rexdale and Lawrence Heights.