Lyle S. Hallman Foundation

http://www.caminowellbeing.ca

Past Grants

 

Community Support Grants

By invitation only, the Foundation accepts applications from qualified donees to support initiatives that align with the vision, mission, values and philosophy of the Foundation, which do not fit within the other grant envelopes.

 

2024

Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health

$1,429,000 (3-year Grant)

Wayfinding

A personalized service experience that supports the unique circumstances of individuals and families

 

Capacity Canada

$1,000,000 (2-year Grant)

Scaling of Capacity Building Impact

Capacity Canada will build and deliver on a plan to collaborate with 20 additional agencies and their leaders in Waterloo Region, that strengthens their capacity and long-term sustainability.

 

Capacity Canada

$500,000 (2-year Grant)

Expansion of Support Services

To develop a pilot program with agencies in the region, to test the effectiveness of additional professional supports, particularly with smaller agencies unable to invest in professional staff.

 

Counselling Collaborative

$525,500 (2-year Grant)

Financial support to help with unfunded counselling services for children and youth.

 

KidsAbility Centre for Child Development

$439,553

Capacity Building - Investing in our Future

Support for a new IT, financial, HR and Clinical support system

 

2022

Anishnabeg Outreach

AO Nest Tutoring Program
600,000 over 3 years
The AO Nest Tutoring Program is designed to support Indigenous children and youth from kindergarten to grade 12 who are struggling academically. Children and youth will be matched with a tutor to work with them to meet academic goals facilitated through the AO Nest platform.

 

Capacity Canada

Igniting Capacity for Social Good
$994,160 over 3 years
Capacity Canada will develop a tool to assess non-profits’ capacity. To address needs identified in the assessment, Capacity Canada will formalize a suite of services that support these agencies in doing more good. 12 Waterloo Region non-profits will have subsidized access to the tool and services over the three-year project.

 

Children and Youth Planning Table of Waterloo Region

Belonging, System Support & Transformation Post-Pandemic
$460,000 over 2 years
This project seeks to alleviate the destabilizing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic by prioritizing child and youth belonging and youth-centric planning. The project also supports system coordination by providing organizations with resources and capacity building to identify and address community needs, especially for those experiencing systemic barriers.

 

The Working Centre

Building Resilience
$750,000 over 3 years
The Working Centre, as a 40 year old organization, seeks to transition from being a founder-led organization, to continue to lean into the deep issues of poverty and dislocation in the community, reinventing structures, engagement and resilience to ensure they remain true to the deep values base on which they are founded.

 

Stabilization Grants

The 2022 Stabilization Grants are proactive (no application requested) and unrestricted grants to mission-aligned partners.

 

Alison Neighbourhood Community Centre (charitable partner: Fiddlesticks Community Centre)

$69,000 per year for two years

 

African Women's Alliance of Waterloo Region (charitable partner: World Wide Opportunities for Women Inc.)

$69,000 per year for two years

 

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Waterloo Region

$100,000 per year for two years

 

Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank

$100,000 per year for two years

 

Carizon Family & Community Services

$1,000,000 per year for two years

 

Community Justice Initiatives

$75,000 per year for two years

 

Community Music School of Waterloo Region

$20,000 per year for two years

 

Compass Refugee Centre

$50,000 per year for two years

 

Counselling Collaborative of Waterloo Region

$500,000 per year for two years

 

Fiddlesticks Community Centre

$60,000 per year for two years

 

Greenway-Chaplin Community Centre

$60,000 per year for two years

 

Hespeler Village Neighbourhood Association (charitable partner: Fiddlesticks Community Centre)

$69,000 per year for two years

 

House of Friendship

$250,000 per year for two years

 

KidsAbility Foundation

$400,000 per year for two years

 

Kinbridge Community Association

$150,000 per year for two years

 

KW Counselling Services

$300,000 per year for two years

 

Langs Farm Village Association

$250,000 per year for two years

 

Lutherwood Child and Family Foundation

$500,000 per year for two years

 

Marillac Place

$150,000 per year for two years

 

Monica Place

$25,000 per year for two years

 

Nutrition for Learning

$50,000 per year for two years

 

Preston Heights Community Group

$60,000 per year for two years

 

rare Charitable Research Reserve

$200,000 per year for two years

 

Reception House Waterloo Region

$150,000 per year for two years

 

SHORE Centre

$250,000 per year for two years

 

Silverheights Neighbourhood Association (charitable partner: Greenway-Chaplin Community Centre)

$69,000 per year for two years

 

THEMUSEUM

$150,000 per year for two years

 

The Ripple Effect Education

$20,000 per year for two years

 

Women's Crisis Services Waterloo Region

$75,000 per year for two years

 

Woolwich Community Health Centre

$300,000 per year for two years

 

YMCA of Three Rivers

$500,000 per year for two years

 

YWCA Cambridge

$400,000 per year for two years

 

YWCA Kitchener-Waterloo

$100,000 per year for two years

 

2021

Anishnabeg Outreach

AO Nest Tutoring Manager

$65,000

Funding will support the hiring of a manager to build the processes and partnerships needed for the AO Nest Tutoring Program. This program is intended to support Indigenous children and youth who are struggling academically, by matching students with tutors to meet academic goals, facilitated through the AO Nest platform.

 

Aids Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and Area (ACCKWA)

Harm Reduction in Cambridge
$10,000
This grant supports the short-term continuation of harm reduction services and the multi-agency community space in Cambridge, originally supported by the Foundation in 2020. This provides the organization time to work further on securing long-term funding.

 
African Family Revival Organization (AFRO) (charitable partner: Canadian Aweil Youth Association)

Black Mental Health Campaign
$181,920 over 3 years
The mental health in Black communities is a longstanding concern. Stigma around mental health is prevalent while barriers to accessing culturally relevant and appropriate mental health care exist. AFRO's Black Mental Health Campaign will promote mental health literacy, normalize the conversation about mental wellbeing and improve help-seeking behaviour among community members. The conversation about mental health will start with children and youth who will in turn be encouraged to take these conversations into the family home.

 

Learning Relationship Project Grants

Partnering with grassroots groups led by and serving Indigenous, Black and racialized communities who work with children and families in Waterloo Region, our goal is to develop mutually beneficial relationships and learn together through regular conversations throughout the year. The funds provided to the organizations are unrestricted, two years in length, and are meant to recognize the value of the time and perspectives of the organizations’ team members.

 

African Family Revival Organization (AFRO) (charitable partner: Canadian Aweil Youth Association)

$20,000 over two years (increased to $56,000 over three years in 2022)

 

Anishnabeg Outreach

$50,000 over two years (increased to $125,000 over three years in 2022)

 

Coalition of Muslim Women KW

$100,000 over 2 years (increased to $250,000 over three years in 2022)

 

Muslim Women of Cambridge (charitable partner: Greenway-Chaplin Community Centre)

$20,000 over 2 years (increased to $56,000 over three years in 2022)

 

White Owl Native Ancestry Association (charitable partner: Global Youth Volunteer Network)

$40,000 over 2 years (increased to $72,000 over three years in 2022)

 

Social Impact Grants

The 2021 Social Impact Grants are proactive (no application requested) and unrestricted.

 

Alison Neighbourhood Community Centre (charitable partner: Fiddlesticks Community Centre)

$60,000

 

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Waterloo Region

$100,000

 

Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank

$50,000

 

Carizon Family & Community Services

$1,000,000

 

Community Justice Initiatives

$75,000

 

Community Music School of Waterloo Region

$10,000

 

Compass Refugee Centre

$50,000

 
Counselling Collaborative of Waterloo Region

$500,000

 

Fiddlesticks Community Centre

$60,000

 

Greenway-Chaplin Community Centre

$60,000

 

Hespeler Village Neighbourhood Association (charitable partner: Greenway-Chaplin Community Centre)

$60,000

 

House of Friendship

$250,000

 

KidsAbility Foundation

$400,000

 

Kinbridge Community Association

$150,000

 

KW Counselling Services

$300,000

 

Langs Farm Village Association

$250,000

 

Lutherwood Child and Family Foundation

$500,000

 

Marillac Place

$150,000

 

Monica Place

$25,000

 

Muslim Social Services

$100,000

 

Nutrition for Learning

$50,000

 

Our Place Family Resource & Early Years Centre

$350,000

 

Preston Heights Community Group

$60,000

 

Project Read Literacy Network

$100,000

 

rare Charitable Research Reserve

$200,000

 

Reception House Waterloo Region

$150,000

 

Sanguen Health Centre

$50,000

 

SHORE Centre

$250,000

 

Silverheights Neighbourhood Association (charitable partner: Greenway-Chaplin Community Centre)

$60,000

 

The Working Centre

$250,000

 

THEMUSEUM

$150,000

 

Women's Crisis Services Waterloo Region

$75,000

 

Woolwich Community Health Centre

$300,000

 

YMCA of Three Rivers

$500,000

 

YWCA Cambridge

$400,000

 

YWCA Kitchener-Waterloo

$100,000

 

 

2020

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the Foundation made a series of grants outside of its regular funding envelopes.

 

Support the Pivot Grants

A one-time competitive granting envelope focused on “supporting the pivot”; helping organizations to adapt and rethink for the interim time frame. Open to child, youth and family-serving organizations in Waterloo Region, this envelope was intended to address a gap in support between emergency crisis response and the unclear longer term landscape.

 

African Women's Alliance of Waterloo Region (charitable partner: World Wide Opportunities for Women Inc.)

The Volunteer Capacity Building Project

$63,145

The project will incentivize families and youth within the African Women's Alliance of Waterloo Region (AWAWR) community to volunteer within their own communities by providing training opportunities and certification. The addition of a volunteer coordinator will improve the recruitment, supervision and management of volunteers, thereby improving their wellbeing and happiness.

 

Alison Neighbourhood Community Centre (charitable partner: Fiddlesticks Community Centre)

Alison Neighbourhood's After School Club Program

$5,050

Adapting activities in Alison Neighbourhood's After School Club program to focus on improving the unique educational, social and mental affects the Covid-19 pandemic has on children and youth participants; and in doing so achieving early intervention in the prevention of long term effects the pandemic would have on this community.

 

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Waterloo Region

Connecting Mentors and Mentees with Virtual Engagement

$117,500 (two year grant)

With innovative recruitment and mentor training strategies, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Waterloo Region will recruit and train volunteer mentors to build long-lasting virtual developmental relationships with children and youth.

 

Business and Education Partnership of Waterloo Region

Building capacity for youth career development

$10,000

Through this project, the Business and Education Partnership of Waterloo Region will undertake community action planning to determine how they can best adapt their programming to proactively support K-12 students as they prepare for their future career paths.

 

Central Ontario Developmental Riding Program

Equine Assisted Support

$36,922 (two year grant)

Combining hands on experiential learning with horses. Working with horses provides opportunities to teach and enhance critical life skills such as trust, respect, confidence, honesty and communication. Programs and activities are personalized to the individual or group, length of session(s) is very flexible.

 

Community Music School of Waterloo Region

CMSWR Virtual Program Pivot

$7,365

CMSWR has embraced an entirely virtual program for 2020-2021. They are offering both individual lessons and ensembles for children and youth ages 4-18, with an emphasis on musical skills, self-confidence, connection and increased opportunities for collaboration and creative exploration.

 

Greenway-Chaplin Community Centre (in partnership with Preston Heights Community Group and Silverheights Neighbourhood Association)

Adapting community engagement through collaborative operational infrastructure to support sustainability across 3 neighbourhood agencies in Cambridge, ON to support future sustainability.

$78,500 (two year grant)

This pivot funding will support and further develop back bone supports to increase engagement within these Cambridge neighbourhoods. It will increase agency capacity of existing systems and create new opportunities for capacity building and engagement for all ages to further adapt in the new post pandemic space.

 

Kinbridge Community Association

Riding the Wave - From Crisis to Pivot

$83,000

Riding the Wave - From Crisis to Pivot will take a grass roots Community Development approach. Children and their families will be engaged with addressing needs, brainstorming solutions and implementing ideas answering how to continue building relationships and respond to community in a socially/physically distanced pandemic environment.

 

Langs Farm Village Association

Enabling Youth & their Families to Shift from Surviving to Thriving

$92,430

A community collaborative approach to increasing capacity for offering children and family focused programming post-Covid in Cambridge and North Dumfries. Moving beyond the initial pivot, to creating environments that support social support networks, connection to school and community, address inequities with internet access as well as enhance overall well-being for children and families.

 

Monica Place

Supporting the Pivot, helping Monica Place adapt our high school and childcare for the next 1-2 years.

$15,500

This project will enable young women and their babies to return to Monica Place's school and nursery safely through Covid-19.

 

rare Charitable Research Reserve

rare ECO Program Strategic Pivot

$49,939

Providing land-based environmental learning virtually during a time when in-person gatherings are restricted.

 

Reception House Waterloo Region

Connecting refugees to virtual Waterloo Region

$138,500

Digital literacy is increasingly essential for refugees settling in our community - as health, education and community services have transitioned to virtual in response to Covid-19. This initiative will ensure refugee families have technology access and support to build their digital literacy from the point of arrival.

 

SHORE Centre

Adapting Empowering Pregnancy

$70,611

Covid-19 changed the realities of pregnancy and parenting for many people, and SHORE must adapt to support the emerging needs of their clients. This funding will allow SHORE to adjust, respond and continue to ensure that families are supported during this incredibly trying time.

 

The Ripple Effect Education

TREE Classrooms

$22,163

The Ripple Effect Education (TREE) is adapting their school program, TREE Classrooms, by shifting their in-person workshop programs to virtual, physically-distant programs to continue to equip youth with the tools they need for healthy conflict resolution in their classrooms, families and communities.

 

THEMUSEUM

Virtual Field Trips for Students in the Region of Waterloo

$37,203

THEMUSEUM will partner with the Waterloo Region District School Board and Waterloo Catholic District School Board to offer curriculum-based virtual field trips for the K-12 age range using Desire2Learn's BrightSpace platform for the upcoming school year and beyond. This initiative will provide engaging hands-on learning opportunities to local students meant to address skills gaps in classroom learning while in-person field trips are not feasible due to health/safety concerns.

 

Volunteer Action Centre of Kitchener-Waterloo and Area

Empowering Proactive Youth in Communities Virtually

$25,000

The EPYC Virtually program is a ten week program engaging a team of youth through weekly challenges that connect with values related to volunteering and community involvement. This program builds skills and value development, gamifies volunteering and community education, and fosters reflection and connection through weekly meetings facilitated by a VAC staff team member for youth participants.

 

YWCA Kitchener-Waterloo

Re-imagine the delivery of programming to meet the needs of families and children, eliminate barriers for 123 families and children by adapting to new ways to virtually connect families to long-term community services.

$88,779

Offer IT resources and programming to assist an average of 123 families and children over 15 months to virtually connect with long-term community services such as education, health care, counselling, mental health services and parenting programs. Empower families and children to connect remotely to community services particularly in a time where physical isolation has become a necessity.

 

2020 Framework Grants

Proactive (no application requested), unrestricted grants intended to provide program grant recipients, from the last several years of both the Children’s Initiatives and invited Community Support envelopes, with some flexibility and stability through 2021.

 

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Waterloo Region

$68,425

 

Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank

$329,224.30

 

Capacity Canada

$40,980

 

Carizon Family and Community Services

$490,917

 

CJI Waterloo Region

$210,816.85

 

Greenway-Chaplin Community Centre (as lead agency for the Cambridge Neighbourhood Organizations)

$308,899.20

 

KidsAbility Centre for Child Development Foundation

$439,467.90

 

Kinbridge Community Association

$30,000

 

Kitchener Downtown Community Health Centre

$32,715.45

 

Kitchener-Waterloo Counselling Services Incorporated

$305,428.50

 

KW YMCA

$175,898.25

 

Marillac Place

$96,186

 

Muslim Social Services KW

$108,399

 

Our Place Family Resource and Early Years Centre

$338,876.25

 

Project Read Literacy Network (Waterloo-Wellington)

$374,012.20

 

rare Charitable Research Reserve

$141,547.75

 

SHORE Centre

$168,834.95

 

Strong Start

$112,500

 

THEMUSEUM

$36,800

 

Woolwich Community Health Centre

$304,750

 

YWCA Cambridge

$256,132.25

 

Emergency Relief Grants

 

Aids Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and Area (ACCKWA)

Harm Reduction in Cambridge

$25,000 (one year grant)

In response to urgent need, ACCKWA will hire a full-time Harm Reduction Worker to be based in Cambridge. The need in this area predates the pandemic, but with the emergency measures things have been worsened considerably. The newly hired Harm Reduction Worker will take over all Cambridge harm reduction outreach (two of three encampments, Cambridge mobile outreach, Cambridge drop-in). This will expand ACCKWA’s pre-COVID capacity of 20 hours/week in Cambridge to 40 hours/week, serving approximately 600 individuals.

 

Waterloo Education Foundation Inc. (Waterloo Region District School Board)

Internet Connectivity for Students in Waterloo Region

$51,500

This grant will purchase hotspot devices and/or four months of internet access for students in the Waterloo Region District School Board.

 

Waterloo Region Catholic Schools Foundation

Internet Connectivity for Students in Waterloo Region

$24,255

This grant will purchase hotspot devices and/or four months of internet access for students in the Waterloo Region Catholic School Board.

 

House of Friendship

Proactive, unrestricted emergency relief

$50,000

 

The Working Centre

Proactive, unrestricted emergency relief

$50,000

 

Food Bank of Waterloo Region

Proactive, unrestricted emergency relief

$25,000

 

Sanguen Health Centre

Proactive, unrestricted emergency relief

$25,000

 

Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank

Proactive, unrestricted emergency relief

$10,000

 

Covid-19 Community Response Fund

The Lyle S. Hallman Foundation contributed $150,000 to the total pool of over $800,000 distributed to 43 charities across Waterloo Region in response to applications to the COVID-19 Community Response Fund.

 

 

2019

 

Region of Waterloo, Office of Regional Economic Development

Smart Waterloo Region – Healthy Children and Youth

$1,000,000 over four years

Smart Waterloo Region (SWR) is the community’s plan to apply technology- and data-enabled solutions to challenges facing Waterloo Region’s children and youth. By leveraging Waterloo Region’s growing technology sector, the goal is to work with partners to make Waterloo Region the best community in Canada for child and youth well-being. This grant, coupled with matching funding from the municipalities, will allow the Smart Waterloo Region initiative to continue.