As 2020 draws to a close, I wish to extend my heartfelt gratitude for your ongoing support of New Leaf Foundation. This has been a year of unprecedented challenge and adjustment as we have all been faced with navigating the uncharted waters of a global pandemic. Nonetheless, we have never been more committed to our mission. Due to […]
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We hope you are keeping as well as can be as we approach these last days of October. Despite a year marked with challenges, including the on-going potential of staff strikes at schools and an emerging pandemic, New Leaf saw some big accomplishments over the last year. From September 2019 to August 2020, we ran 29
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With the recent wave of more and more people waking up to the existence of anti-Black racism around the world, New Leaf wants to do our part to keep vital conversations going. We’re excited to announce the below events happening this fall. Roll Call: Power? Present! Youth & Anti-Oppression Join us starting this September for School’s
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One of New Leaf’s priorities is being led by the communities we engage with. During the pandemic, our goal has been to learn what youth need/want and re-envision our work and our offerings in a way that’s responsive. Over the months of April and May, we carried out consultations and distributed a survey and grocery cards
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As we all put one step in front of the other and move through this unprecedented time, I hope this letter finds you all safe and healthy. At New Leaf, we’re feeling fueled by our shared passion to support our communities. While we miss seeing youth and partners face to face, we are focusing on the
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New Leaf Foundation is working hard behind the scenes to transition our work from frontline to online so that we can continue to support as many youth as possible during the COVID-19 quarantine. First thing up! Our program facilitators have created some home practice videos for youth, parents, educators and anyone who would benefit from them.
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New Leaf is excited to partner with The Forgiveness Project on an amazing event they created to support folks who are incarcerated during this difficult time. Our organization has been engaging youth in custody facilities across Ontario since 2007, and we know this period when restorative community programs, like the ones The Forgiveness Project and New
On behalf of the entire New Leaf team, I hope you’re all taking very good care of yourselves during this unprecedented time. I know that many of you are experiencing high levels of stress around the health, safety and financial security of yourselves and your loved ones, and we are sending out warmest wishes to you
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With the generous financial support of our donors, New Leaf was able to accomplish so much over the 2018/19 year, including rebuilding our program evaluation strategy and investing in youth leadership. We contributed meaningfully to our “Whole Schools Initiative” which aims to support both students and the adults in their lives in order to reduce cycles
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Each September, our team hits the ground running to put our school initiatives back into place for the year. We’re kicking off this school year offering 18 programs in partnership with 9 TDSB elementary and secondary schools. All of these 24-week programs will launch throughout the month of October. As well, our community drop-in programs in
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