Opening doors to a better world
From our most vulnerable to our most exceptional, we all have a contribution to make. For potential to flourish, however, it needs opportunity, guidance, an empathetic hand and a courageous heart.
The Azrieli Foundation is Canada’s largest non-corporate foundation. We connect and nurture potential, wherever it exists, with the resources and the wisdom it needs to open the doors to a better world, one individual at a time.
These are some of the stories of how the Azrieli Foundation and the people and organizations we support are making an impact in the world.
Read the Azrieli Foundation’s 2021 Impact Report
At the Azrieli Foundation we are passionate about the promise and importance of a rigorous but creative approach to philanthropy, strategic leadership and collaborations, and forward thinking. We believe these are the keys to knowledge that will create positive outcomes for future generations.
Our priorities
Our future depends on our ability to foster the healthy development of the next generation
“I worry about how I’m going to raise my baby, but I have my Visitor to talk to so I know I can raise him in the best way possible.” As the youngest and fastest growing segment of our population, Indigenous children and youth represent Canada’s future. With a firm belief that everyone should have […]
Azrieli Science Grants Program
RNA and the Brain With a goal to advance discoveries and novel approaches that address the core of challenging issues in medicine and society, including for neurodevelopmental conditions, the Azrieli Foundation launched a new funding opportunity in 2020. Researchers were asked to submit applications which would deepen the understanding of the molecular events “downstream of […]
Holocaust Education: Creating a critical bridge between history and empathy
When we only discuss the Holocaust through the lessons that it can teach us, we obscure the Holocaust as an event, turning it into a metaphor. In September of 2018, the Azrieli Foundation, in partnership with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), commissioned a comprehensive study of Canadian knowledge and awareness […]
Creating opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities
Finding purpose and community through work In Toronto, two outstanding organizations are providing meaningful work for adults with disabilities. Good Foot and DANI were created with similar purposes – to help adults with disabilities gain independence and build community. Good Foot is a courier service created by Jon Gauthier and his sister, Kirsten, in 2010. […]
