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Please use current OTF application forms. Note that we have introduced a simplified application process for small capital requests. Deadlines for all applications are March 1, July 1 and November 1. To be considered in each grant cycle, complete applications must be received at our 45 Charles Street East, Toronto, office no later than 5 p.m. on the deadline date. -- Please use current OTF application forms. Note that we have introduced a simplified application process for small capital requests. Deadlines for all applications are March 1, July 1 and November 1. To be considered in each grant cycle, complete applications must be received at our 45 Charles Street East, Toronto, office no later than 5 p.m. on the deadline date. -- Please use current OTF application forms. Note that we have introduced a simplified application process for small capital requests. Deadlines for all applications are March 1, July 1 and November 1. To be considered in each grant cycle, complete applications must be received at our 45 Charles Street East, Toronto, office no later than 5 p.m. on the deadline date. -- Please use current OTF application forms. Note that we have introduced a simplified application process for small capital requests. Deadlines for all applications are March 1, July 1 and November 1. To be considered in each grant cycle, complete applications must be received at our 45 Charles Street East, Toronto, office no later than 5 p.m. on the deadline date. -- Please use current OTF application forms. Note that we have introduced a simplified application process for small capital requests. Deadlines for all applications are March 1, July 1 and November 1. To be considered in each grant cycle, complete applications must be received at our 45 Charles Street East, Toronto, office no later than 5 p.m. on the deadline date. -- Please use current OTF application forms. Note that we have introduced a simplified application process for small capital requests. Deadlines for all applications are March 1, July 1 and November 1. To be considered in each grant cycle, complete applications must be received at our 45 Charles Street East, Toronto, office no later than 5 p.m. on the deadline date. -- Please use current OTF application forms. Note that we have introduced a simplified application process for small capital requests. Deadlines for all applications are March 1, July 1 and November 1. To be considered in each grant cycle, complete applications must be received at our 45 Charles Street East, Toronto, office no later than 5 p.m. on the deadline date.

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Access to Healthy Food for all Continues to be Challenge in Ontario Communities

As the holiday season approaches we have the opportunity to pause and reflect on the importance of fresh, healthy food, and the problems that many experience in accessing it. In a country with so much, access to good quality inexpensive basic food continues to be a struggle for hundreds of thousands of people on a daily basis. And this issue is one that will become more acute in the months ahead and is one we all have a role to solve.

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More Than $33.8 Million in OTF Grants to 491 Local and Province-Wide Community Groups

Funding Provides Positive Economic Impact and Builds Strong Communities

Toronto, December 3, 2008 – Today the Ontario Trillium Foundation announced that 491 local and Province-Wide not-for-profit and charitable organizations will receive funding totalling $33,805,700.

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New Look at Demographic Trends to Help Not-For-Profits and their Funders Address Emerging and Future Community Needs

Unique trends in Ontario regions identified in reports from Ontario Trillium Foundation and Statistics Canada

Toronto, November 25, 2008 – Whether through immigration or birth, Ontario accounts for half of the population growth in Canada. In addition, one in five Ontarians now lives in Toronto. These trends, driven by the significant growth in the youth, Aboriginal and immigrant populations, point to interesting times ahead for not-for-profit organizations according to a series of new demographic reports.

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Your Community in Profile 2008

How Growing Endowments, Influence and Agendas Are Changing Today’s Foundations

September 10, 2008 – Helen Burstyn, Chair of the Ontario Trillium Foundation joined Alan Broadbent (Chair, Maytree Foundation) and Martin Connell (Chair, Toronto Community Foundation) to discuss the topic “Foundations in Canada today manage more than $10-billion in assets. Their influence, their agendas and their endowments are growing, and their future is…”

More than 240 leaders from business, government, not-for-profit organizations and foundations attended the presentation.

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