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Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health.

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The Wellesley Institute’s Rick Blickstead , Michael Shapcott , and Aerin Guy presented to the London, ON based Pillars Non-Profit Network on May 4, 2009.  As our Third Sector partners as face economic uncertainties, we look at social innovation and social entrepreneurship models as opportunities for organizations to survive and thrive. View the presentation here. […]

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.