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Protected: Right place, right time, right size

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Protected: The Nose Knows

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Protected: The pandemic and food security

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Our future depends on our ability to foster the healthy development of the next generation

Martin Family Initiative’s Early Years program

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Providing inclusive and accessible programming for young adults

Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre (MNJCC)

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Azrieli Science Grants Program

Azrieli Science Grants: RNA and the Brain

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Two New Holocaust Survivor Memoirs

The Azrieli Foundation recently launched two new Memoirs: Escape from the Edge by Morris Schnitzer and In Dreams Together: The Diary of Leslie Fazekas.

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The brain is the final frontier of medical research

The Azrieli Foundation supports scientists and patients navigating the brain health journey.

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2020 Azrieli Foundation Staff Holiday Giving Initiative

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Holocaust Education: Creating a critical bridge between history and empathy

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Creating opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities

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Helping Holocaust Survivors in Need

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The Room 217 Foundation: Music for palliative care

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Sulamot: Music for Social Change

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Preserving a lost world

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Bringing the voices of Holocaust survivors to all Canadians

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Azrieli Music Prizes

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Early Career Research

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Simulation-based medical education

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School Perseverance

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Teach your children well

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Helping kids from low-income families flourish

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Providing outstanding treatment to all patients

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Global Connections in Israel Studies

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Brain Imaging

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Learning through Experience

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Fragile X Syndrome

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Autism research: A new era of holistic understanding

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Extreme Landscapes, Shared Language

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Inclusion

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The Final Frontier

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A Spotlight on Emerging Musicians

Supporting International Music Competitions in Canada The Azrieli Foundation is committed to supporting music and has a particular interest in emerging artist development and career development, especially within classical music. Discovering promising pianists In 1991, Calgary philanthropist Esther Honens established the Honens International Piano Competition with the dream of discovering and launching the careers of […]

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Helping Children Reach their Potential

Educating students who may have otherwise been overlooked or misunderstood The Azrieli Foundation is committed to supporting initiatives that improve the quality of life and education for children with learning and developmental disabilities. These are three organizations that enable children to achieve their full potential. As different as each of these organizations is, they all […]

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Dreaming with Open Eyes

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Sharing the Joy of Reading

Sharing Jewish traditions, cultures and values through books Reading to children is vitally important: study after study has shown its impact on a child’s development. Even the mere presence of books in a home increases the level of education they can reach. But finding the right books and making the time to read as a […]

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Building Bridges

“This is my vision: to be able to use the tangible rewards of my career… to create a legacy… in both of my two homelands.” – David J. Azrieli, 2007 The Azrieli Foundation continues to honour the late David Azrieli’s legacy by building bridges between Canada and Israel. Two of these areas are in Science […]

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The Heart of the Matter

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Nurturing and Nourishing our Community

What’s the common denominator between providing food, funds and a community centre? Each provides an individual with dignity. The Azrieli Foundation has been helping strengthen communities in Canada and Israel since the foundation began. In Toronto, one of our community recipients is Jewish Free Loan Toronto. In Montreal, we proudly support Ometz, and in Israel, […]

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Helping Adults with Developmental Disabilities

Every individual deserves a life of dignity There is growing awareness of the challenges that children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, such as an intellectual disability, autism or Down syndrome, face. But something is missing: these children with neurodevelopmental disabilities grow up, and these disabilities don’t disappear. Adults with neurodevelopmental disabilities are often ignored by society, and […]

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Azrieli Fellows Program

Our Fellows have already changed the world. “I think the world’s greatest resource is its human capital. The Azrieli Fellows Program identifies, catalyzes and ignites this capital by creating an elite group of academics who, through their research and shared experiences in Israel, are establishing a network of leading professionals committed to raising the country’s […]

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