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The United Way Movement in Canada is a federated network of local United Way offices serving more than 5,000 communities across Canada, each registered as its own nonprofit organization and governed by an independent volunteer-led local Board of Directors. Each United Way works locally to raise funds and invest in improving lives in its ...
Occupation. Administrator. Frances Lankin, PC CM (born April 16, 1954), [1] is a Canadian senator, former president and CEO of United Way Toronto, and a former Ontario MPP and cabinet minister in the NDP government of Bob Rae between 1990 and 1995. From 2010 to 2012, she co-chaired a government commission review of social assistance in Ontario.
United Way is an international network of over 1,800 ... An appeal published by the Federation for Community Service in Toronto, Canada (a predecessor of United Way ...
Kwame McKenzie. Kwame Julius McKenzie is a British-Canadian psychiatrist employed as the CEO of Wellesley Institute, a policy think tank based in Toronto, Ontario. McKenzie is a full professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He has worked as physician, researcher, policy advisor, journalist and broadcaster.
Furniture Link is supported through grants from the United Way's Toronto Enterprise Fund and the Ontario Trillium Foundation. [4] [14] Revenue from operations are re-invested in the organization to provide funds for staffing and programming with a goal to subsidize operations and make the charity self-sustaining. [15] [16]
Central Neighbourhood House. Central Neighbourhood House (CNH) is a settlement house in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1911 by social reformers J.J. Kelso and Elizabeth Neufeld, it is Toronto's second oldest settlement house. [1] It is currently located in the Regent Park area of Toronto at 349 Ontario Street.
Amanuel Melles. Amanuel Melles is a Canadian community organizer, a scientist and the current Executive Director of the Network for the Advancement of Black Communities. [ 1][ 2] Melles emigrated to Canada in 1993 from Eritrea. [ 3] He worked for more than 10 years in the field of marine sciences and research, [ 1] and in his home country, he ...
He retired from elected politics in 1982 to accept a job as president of the Toronto chapter of the United Way, [1] and was succeeded in the 1982 municipal election by Joanne Campbell. [2] At the time of the election, Campbell was an executive assistant in Cressy's office; she later married Cressy in 1983.