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Slaight Foundation Gifts $15M To Support 12 Female Orgs

The Slaight Family Foundation, one of Toronto’s most wide-reaching family foundations, has announced its latest charitable give of $15 million to 12 organizations across Canada, focused on improvin

Slaight Foundation Gifts $15M To Support 12 Female Orgs

By Karen Bliss

The Slaight Family Foundation, one of Toronto’s most wide-reaching family foundations, has announced its latest charitable give of $15 million to 12 organizations across Canada, focused on improving the lives of women and girls, with a focus on Indigenous, Black, racialized, refugee and immigrant communities.


A little under a year ago, they divvied up $30 million to 19 Canadian organizations offering mental health services. This latest gift brings the foundation’s total, to date, to $170 million, all programs and initiatives thoroughly considered, expanded or created.

The new recipients of the family’s generosity and focus are Canadian Women’s Foundation, Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada, Covenant House, Girls E-Mentorship (GEM), New Circles, Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), Ontario Native Women’s Association, University Health Network (UHN), Women’s College Hospital Foundation, Women’s Shelters Canada, Women’s Health in Women’s Hands CHC (WHIWH), and YWCA.

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“The pandemic has added to the many challenges faced by women and girls across Canada, and particularly in Indigenous, racialized and refugee communities,” said the Slaight Family Foundation’s president and CEO Gary Slaight in a statement. “This initiative is about helping people escape difficult circumstances, providing support for mental and physical health, and overcoming barriers so that women and girls across Canada can live their lives unburdened by unfair, unhealthy or unsafe circumstances.” – Continue reading on the Samaritanmag website.

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Richard Perry arrives at the Gibson Through The Lens Exhibition on July 30, 2008 in West Hollywood, Calif.
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Richard Perry arrives at the Gibson Through The Lens Exhibition on July 30, 2008 in West Hollywood, Calif.

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Obituaries: Hitmaking Producer Richard Perry, Jazz Bassist Barre Phillips

We also acknowledge the recent passing of U.K. producer Lennie De Ice, Replacements guitarist Slim Dunlap, singer-songwriter David Mallett, tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain and R&B star Sugar Pie DeSanto.

Richard (Van) Perry, an American record producer behind the Carly Simon hit "You’re So Vain" and albums by artists including Rod Stewart, Ringo Starr and Canadian rock star Burton Cummings, died on Dec. 24, at age 82, after a cardiac arrest.

A Billboard obituary notes that "Perry’s greatest hits include Nilsson’s 'Without You' and Carly Simon’s 'You’re So Vain,' both of which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also received Grammy nods for record of the year. These two classic hits typify Perry’s production style – immaculate, powerful and precise. Other hits that have that unmistakable Perry stamp include Leo Sayer’s 'When I Need You' (also a No. 1 on the Hot 100) and Burton Cummings’ stately 'Stand Tall' (a top 10 hit on the Hot 100 in 1977. His last album project to make the top 10 was Rod Stewart’s Fly Me to The Moon…The Great American Songbook, Vol. 5 in November 2010."

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