Social Planning Toronto’s 2014 Year-end Review
Social Planning Toronto is pleased to release its year-end review highlighting its major accomplishments in 2014. Some highlights are:

• Commitment to Community’s (C2C) successful campaign during the budget process
• Civic engagement work around Provincial and Municipal elections
• Big wins at the City Hall
• City Council’s unanimous vote to develop a poverty reduction strategy for the City of Toronto

• The Campaign to Raise Minimum Wage
• The launch of four reports on community services, child poverty, minimum wage and newcomers’ self-employment
• Campaign to Stop Police Carding
• Development of partnerships with United Way, George Brown College and Irving Tissue to provide paid apprenticeship for youth
• Toronto Community Development Institute’s new partnerships
• Educational work around Ontario Human Rights Commission’s new policy on ‘Canadian Experience’ as a ground for discrimination
• Continued campaign around access to school space and TDSB’s Learning Opportunities Grant
• York Youth Coalition’s West Won Community Festival

Click here to read the full report.