2021 Ontario Budget: Provincial Government Once Again Fails Communities and Nonprofits
Year 2 into the pandemic and the Province continues to shortchange communities and nonprofits.
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The Frances Lankin Award — established upon Frances Lankin's retirement 10 years ago — recognizes leaders who've made significant, transformative contributions to Toronto's nonprofit community sector.
Investments Are Needed to Tackle Toronto’s Crisis of Inequality, So Why is City Council Leaving a Viable Revenue Tool on the Table?
We’re in the home stretch of the 2021 budget process, with the final vote by Toronto city council set for Thursday, February 18. This year’s...
Ontario needs a budget that invests in people and public services
Ontario 2021 Pre-Budget Submission Prepared for the Minister of Finance Social Planning Toronto calls on the Government of Ontario to make tangible investments in the...
We're Hiring! Executive Director Applications Accepted Until Feb. 26
Social Planning Toronto (SPT) is seeking a dynamic, enterprising, and creative leader with a passion for equity and significant experience in community capacity building to...
The City of Toronto needs new revenues to cushion its $1.8 billion budget shortfall and position itself for pandemic recovery
As we all weather the second wave of the pandemic, the City of Toronto is facing a historic $1.8 billion deficit rolling into 2021. COVID-19...
Forced encampment clearings are not the answer
"The key to ending homelessness is permanent, affordable housing. That will take time. In the meantime, if some homeless Torontonians feel safer in encampments during a pandemic, @cityofto must do more to support them."
Read Social Planning Toronto's full statement at www.socialplanningtoronto.org/no_encampment_clearings
#NoEncampmentEvictions #topoli
#NationalHousingDay: A bittersweet celebration
As the impacts of COVID-19 continue to deepen housing injustices and homelessness across Toronto, Social Planning Toronto celebrates National Housing Day with hope and determination....
New research reveals the racial, social, and geographic divides of Toronto’s housing crisis
Spaces and Places of Exclusion: Mapping Rental Housing Disparities for Toronto’s Racialized and Immigrant Communities is a first-of-its-kind study, mapping spatial exclusion by racialized and immigrant status...
Ontario 2020 budget shortchanges communities and nonprofits
Yesterday, Finance Minister Rod Phillips outlined Ontario’s roadmap for pandemic recovery in the much anticipated 2020 Provincial budget. Ontario's Action Plan: Protect, Support, Recover is...