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Small Towns: Big Impacts
How OTF Grants are Strengthening Communities Across Ontario
The Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) is always looking to improve the many ways the Foundation is fulfilling its mission of building healthy and vibrant communities across Ontario. As part of the Foundation’s 25th anniversary initiative, a research study called Small Towns: Big Impacts was conducted.
We took an approach that would help us better understand the “human impact” of our grants at the local level by listening to and reflecting local voices in our research findings. We also recognized that small towns would provide a strong sample of communities in which to assess the Foundation’s impact since communities with populations fewer than 20,000 receive a significant share of OTF grants each year. We combined standard qualitative research methods and data analysis with a community-based approach to gathering audio and video.
In total 104 interviews were conducted with a broad sample of grantees, beneficiaries of grants, key informants, and OTF staff and volunteers in the following small towns: Goderich, Haliburton, Hawkesbury, Kapuskasing, Kenora and Port Colborne.
Please click below to watch the interviews from each of these towns. Key findings of the study will be presented in a report in the near future.
Between 1999 and 2007 OTF made 254 grants valued at $10.4 million in the following towns:
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