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Welcome to the Atkinson Foundation's Website
Our mission is to "promote social and economic justice in the tradition of our founder," Joseph E. Atkinson. In the categories of health, social welfare, economic justice and education the Foundation has granted more than $55 million since its inception.
The Foundation has a focus on three priority areas in 2010:
Early Learning and Child Care: Innovative projects that demonstrate how to improve the futures of children and youth at risk through more effective early years programming and policies.
Poverty Reduction: Innovative projects--including community organizing, research and educational activities—geared to increasing community and policy capacity to tackle poverty.
The Canadian Index of Wellbeing: A new approach to measuring how Canadians' lives are getting better – or worse – in areas that matter: health, standard of living, quality of the environment, time use, education and skills, community vitality, civic engagement, and arts and culture.
Please note that given our priorities and committed resources to current partners and initiatives in 2010, we are not accepting unsolicited applications.
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