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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 13, 2021 (Download the release in Inuktitut) The Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC), with support from Ross Video and the Ottawa Community Foundation (OCF), is embarking on a project that will preserve and promote Inuit Television Archives for the public now and into the future. This unique public, private, and philanthropic partnership [...]

The Ottawa Community Foundation Grants $25,000 to IWSO in support of the Children Who Witness Violence Program December 15, 2021 Immigrant Women Services Ottawa (IWSO) today announced that they have received a grant from the Ottawa Community Foundation, a public, non-profit organization created by and for the people of Ottawa. The Foundation's grant of $25,000 [...]

Given the added societal and organizational vulnerabilities arising from the pandemic, organizations in the charitable/NFP sector have added incentive to consider operational collaboration or even organizational integration. The OCF is interested in helping organizations explore and develop new organizational partnerships. Below are a few examples that fall at different places along a continuum from [...]

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OCF President and CEO Marco Pagani and Ian Bingeman, Manager, Social Enterprise Platform recently joined PAL Ottawa's Peter Haworth to discuss their collaborative partnerships and other updates from the Foundation on the Sam Laprade Show on CityNews Ottawa. Listen to their segment below! (Full episode)

Dear Friends and Family, We are pleased to tell you that the second Phil Everson Memorial Scholarship has been awarded to a graduating student of St. Lawrence Secondary School in Cornwall, Ont. As you may recall, this scholarship was initiated after Phil Everson, a former St. Lawrence student, died suddenly after completing the Ottawa [...]

We mourn the loss of a community leader, but more importantly, celebrate the former President and CEO Barbara McInnes. She led the foundation for close to three decades, tireless in her devotion to make Ottawa the best it could be. The passing of our former long-time President and CEO Barbara McInnes has left [...]

Congratulations to Rawan Ahmed, the winner of the inaugural Blair Sharpe Memorial Scholarship. Rawan’s work was selected by the jury for her exceptional handling of paint in a series of food still lifes. Rawan is a former law student who has decided to pursue art, which she describes as “the most essential form of expression—for [...]

Congratulations to Just Food and the Parkdale Food Centre, co-recipients of the NLCC 2020 $125,000 grant. These organizations, along with several others, each presented their proposed initiative (described below) at a collaborative workshop involving over 40 sector players in November 2020. Based on input at the workshop, their initiatives were selected to receive a [...]