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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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A Policy Perspective On Canada’s Non-Profit Maze Of Regulatory And Legislative Barriers

Lynn Eakin, Heather Graham, Rick Blickstead and Michael Shapcott |

Canada’s third sector–the vital web of non-profit, charitable and voluntary organizations that provide programs and services, and knit together communities–is also a significant economic force. In recent years, governments have increasingly relied on non-profit groups as the delivery agent of choice for government services. “Canada’s non-profit maze” is powerful new research by Lynn Eakin and Associates, commissioned by the […]

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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.