Ottawa Community Foundation in the News - Ottawa Community Foundation

June 10, 2022

Ottawa’s Ukrainian Canadian Congress receives $20,000 to help resettle refugees

An anonymous donor from the Ottawa Community Foundation gave $20,000 to the Ukrainian Canadian Congress to help with their resettlement efforts.

March 1, 2021

The Royal gains boost to mental health research with anonymous $1.5 million donation

“Thanks to a gift of $1.5 million from anonymous donors at the Ottawa Community Foundation’s fund, the Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research (IMHR) will be able to make advancements to improve mental health.”

November 19-20, 2020

The Ottawa Community Foundation is engaging partners to put together a plan of support for the Community Laundry Co-op to keep its doors open.

CBC Ottawa: Community Laundry Co-op backs away from brink of shutdown

CBC Ottawa News: Live Broadcast, November 19, 2020 (Video)

Ottawa Morning: Laundry co-op at risk of being wrung out (Audio)

June 22, 2020

Steve Pomeroy, head of Focus Consulting Inc. and Senior Research Fellow for the Centre for Urban Research and Education (CURE) at Carleton University, was on CBC Ottawa Morning to discuss his work with the Ottawa Community Foundation in setting up an acquisition fund to invest in affordable housing. Stream the interview (CBC Ottawa Morning)

March 27, 2020

President and CEO Marco Pagani is interviewed for 1310 News with Sam Laprade. Marco spoke on the Foundation’s response to COVID-19. Stream the interview (1310 News).

March 15, 2020

President and CEO Marco Pagani is interviewed for CFRA’s Money Talk with John Budden. Marco spoke on the work that community foundations do, and in particular some of the strategic priorities that the OCF has undertaken. Stream the interview (Bell Media and 580 CFRA).

June 9, 2019

The Ottawa Community Foundation is one of seven investors that have committed a total of $1.75 million to help Indigenous businesses scale. By creating this small impact fund, Vancouver-based Raven Indigenous Capital Partners is making equity investments in socially-focused indigenous entrepreneurs. The OCF joins Community Foundations of Canada, Inspirit Foundation, Lawson Foundation, Lochmaddy Foundation, Swift Foundation and Vancity in backing the fund. See the full article in The Globe and Mail[subscription may be required] or see ImpactAlpha for a summary.

May 23, 2019

OCF’s Vice-President Bibi Patel was recently featured in an article published across various outlets discussing donor-advised funds. Other sources: Toronto Star | Globe and Mail (Video)

March 20, 2019

The following is an interview between Alan Neal of CBC’s All in a Day and Rebecca Aird, OCF’s Director of Grants and Community Knowledge and Lead on the Low Carbon Cities Canada (LC3) file. In the interview, Rebecca discusses the recent announcement by the federal government to invest $183 million in LC3 and the naming of Ottawa as one of the seven centres.

Environment and Climate Change Minister on budget. Plus the federal budget also gave the Low Carbon Cities Canada initiative a 183-million dollar shout-out. And it’s meant to help reduce Canada’s carbon footprint through local projects. (9:25 – 15:52)

September 26, 2018

On September 26^th, the Ottawa Community Foundation joined the United Ways, Canadian Red Cross and community partners in the aftermath of the storm. The following is some of the editorial coverage from the announcement.

CTV: City’s leading organizations unite for tornado relief efforts, launch new website

CTV: Video (2:40 – 3:08)

Ottawa Matters: United Way Ottawa launches new website, lays out priorities for tornado relief

CBC: Charities unite to aid tornado victims

September 7, 2018, Global News

Youth Now Farm , a finalist in the 2017 New Leaf Community Challenge, is profiled in this Global News segment which highlights the work of Youth Now Canada and the Parkdale Food Centre in helping at-risk Ottawa youth gain job skills.

June 21, 2017, Ripples, Spring Issue (#39)

President and CEO Marco Pagani is interviewed for the Spring issue of Ripples, the newsletter published by the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area

May 30, 2017, Rogers Community Ottawa

President and CEO Marco Pagani joins Host Dylan Black on Rogers Community Ottawa to talk about the organization’s new look and bold new direction.

Jan. 4, 2017, Ottawa Magazine

Ottawa artists’ incomes top national average at $25K