The Maytree Foundation
“Maytree Foundation”
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Maximum Eligible Amount
Private Grant
Fund Type
The Maytree Foundation is a private charitable foundation dedicated to reducing poverty and inequality and to building strong civic communities in Canada. Maytree's work is primarily focused on supporting alternative social policy perspectives and accelerating the settlement of refugees and immigrants in large urban centres. The Foundation accomplishes this by focusing on empowering individuals, funding innovative ideas, and supporting effective leaders and organizations.
- Develop and promote policy ideas that address systemic causes of poverty and safeguard social and economic rights in the Canadian context.
- Develop leadership and skills capacity among civil society and people with lived experience of poverty to participate in the development of processes, policies and solutions to address poverty.
- Strengthen the connections among civic communities, people with lived experience, and institutions to address poverty and build a culture of rights.