Up-front multi-year funding - Departmental Results Report 2017-2018

On this page:

• Michaëlle Jean Foundation
• Rideau Hall Foundation
• Endowment Fund - Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities
• Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko
• Global Centre for Pluralism (GCP)

List of acronyms

AB

Alberta

CIRLM

Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic MinoritiesCanadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities

GCP

Global Centre for PluralismGlobal Centre for Pluralism

Michaëlle Jean Foundation

Name of recipient

Michaëlle Jean Foundation

Start date

October 1, 2010

End date

March 31, 2020

Strategic outcome

Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity

Link to department's Program Alignment Architecture

Program 2.1: Attachment to Canada, Sub-program 2.1.6: Youth Take Charge

Description

The Michaëlle Jean Foundation is a Canadian not-for-profit organization that encourages communities to use art and creativity to stimulate and enhance citizen participation and dialogue with a particular emphasis on youth.

The objectives of the Foundation are, among others, to: raise awareness, and leverage the creative power, of the arts to generate a more socially harmonious, civically engaged and innovative Canada; enhance collaborative linkages and networks connecting the arts and creative communities with other sectors of society; promote local and national initiatives to create a new discourse and branding around Canadian culture that better communicate the value of the arts and creativity to the broader public; and contribute to empowering youth and emerging artists in their efforts to use art as a tool to address challenges facing their neighbourhoods and communities.

To achieve these ends, the Foundation will provide programming in the areas of creative communities, youth action and democracy. The programming will, thus, bring together support for community initiatives, discussion forums and the promotion of citizen participation through social media.

Total approved funding

$10,000,000

Comments on variances

n/a

Significant audit findings by the recipient during the reporting year, and future plan

n/a

Significant evaluation findings by the recipient during the reporting year, and future plan

n/a

Summary of results achieved by the recipient

As it entered the final three years of its funding agreement, the Michaëlle Jean Foundation continued to build upon its existing projects and develop additional programming, including:

• Collective Impact: Working with underserved youth to develop art works, which are then displayed in galleries across Canada. Hosted National Black Canadians Summit in Toronto in December 2017, and partnerships with groups representing minority voices.
• Social Innovation: Bursaries for small arts-based businesses led by underserved youth.
• Power of the Arts Forum: Annual forum held in Montréal in February 2018.
• Research: New fellowships towards research in Arts-related Family Medicine.

Rideau Hall Foundation

Name of recipient

Rideau Hall Foundation

Start date

September 28, 2017

End date

March 31, 2028

Strategic outcome

Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity

Link to department's Program Alignment Architecture

Program 2.1: Attachment to Canada, Sub-program 2.1.6: Youth Take Charge

Description

The Rideau Hall Foundation is a Canadian non-profit organization, established in 2012, with a vision to foster a caring nation, where "all Canadians can grow their talents to the maximum, a nation where all Canadians can succeed and contribute."

The objectives of the Foundation are to foster a smart and caring nation; encourage innovative ideas and foresight; inspire people to find solutions to the challenges facing the nation; connect, collaborate and turn ideas into action; and build our future together.

The Foundation is committed to initiatives that support diversity and inclusion and equality of opportunity. Supported initiatives will enable marginalized groups to participate fully in Canada's society and economy. The Foundation's signature programming falls within four key areas: creating learning initiatives that strive for excellence and promote equality of educational opportunity; investing in Canadian leaders with transformative potential; widening the circle of giving and volunteering; and strengthening Canada's culture of innovation.

Total approved funding

$10,000,000

Comments on variances

$3,000,000^{Footnote 1}

Significant audit findings by the recipient during the reporting year, and future plan

n/a

Significant evaluation findings by the recipient during the reporting year, and future plan

n/a

Summary of results achieved by the recipient

The Foundation works strategically with organizations and partners to build capacity, to help bring projects to scale and to realize aspirations for Canada. This approach allows the Foundation to welcome multiple perspectives to the table and to work collaboratively towards creative new solutions. The Foundation will help organizations to define challenges, mobilize assets, and test and validate potential solutions.

*Total grants do not exceed $ 10 million for the period 2017-18 to 2027-28.

Endowment Fund - Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities

Name of recipient

Endowment Fund - Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities

Start date

March 20, 2002

End date

Perpetual

Strategic outcome

Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity

Link to department's Program Alignment Architecture

Program 2.3: Official Languages, Sub-program 2.3.1: Development of Official-Language Communities Program

Description

Thanks to an endowment of $10 million funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities (CIRLM) was created in March 2002 for the purpose of becoming a national centre of expertise to better understand the challenges that official language minority communities face and the trends in their environment. Although it is housed at the Université de Moncton, the Institute has a national mission. It carries out activities related to official language minority communities through revenues generated by the Endowment Fund and other revenues.

The goal of the Institute is to increase research on issues related to official-language minority communities. More and improved research will ensure that leaders of minority-language communities and officials responsible for developing public policy will have a better understanding of the issues that affect the development of Canada's French and English speaking minority communities.

Total approved funding

$10,000,000

Comments on variances

n/a

Significant audit findings by the recipient during the reporting year, and future plan

n/a

Significant evaluation findings by the recipient during the reporting year, and future plan

n/a

Summary of annual plans of recipient

CIRLM annually publishes research projects, and an annual report on its activities and performance measures. This report is delivered to Canadian Heritage six months after the end of the fiscal year.

Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko

Name of recipient

Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko

Start date

2008-09: one-time conditional grant

End date

Funding agreement governing endowment ends in May 2023

Strategic outcome

Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity

Link to department's Program Alignment Architecture

Program 2.2: Engagement and Community Participation, Sub-program 2.2.5: Multiculturalism Program

Description

Recognizing the historical significance of First World War internment of "enemy aliens," the Government of Canada provided a conditional grant of $10 million under the Community Historical Recognition Program to the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko for the establishment and management of an endowment fund known as the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund. (This funding was provided on a one-time basis when the Community Historical Recognition Program was managed by the Department of Canadian Heritage.) The affected communities include Ukrainians, Alevi Kurds, Armenians, Bulgarians, Croatians, Czechs, Germans, Hungarians, Italians, Jews, Ottoman Turks, Polish, Romanians, Russians, Serbians, Slovaks, Slovenes, among others of which most were Ukrainians and most were civilians. Through calls for proposals managed by the Foundation, applicants apply for financial support for activities that commemorate, acknowledge and educate Canadians about the experiences of communities affected by internment and the subsequent contributions of these communities to shaping Canada. The funding agreement will remain in effect for 15 years.

Total approved funding

One-time conditional grant of $10 million under the Community Historical Recognition Program

Comments on variances

n/a

Significant audit findings by the recipient during the reporting year, and future plan

n/a

Significant evaluation findings by the recipient during the reporting year, and future plan

n/a

Summary of results achieved by the recipient

Since its inception, the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund (Endowment Council) awarded over $3M dollars towards projects that commemorate and recognize the experiences of ethno-cultural communities affected by the First World War Internment.

In 2017-18, the Endowment Council funded the award winning documentary, "That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations". This film Premiered at the Cave & Basin National Historic Site, one of the 24 internment camp locations. The Endowment Council also approved 21 new grants aimed at educating Canadians about Canada's war time measures through: research papers on the First World War Internment and the law; a national art exhibit; a national historical exhibit; awareness campaigns; a university students' internment conference in Banff, AB; internee cemetery restoration of the Morrissey Cemetery in British Columbia; academic research; and French educational resources. A digital map was created on www.internmentcanada.ca website which contains over 12,000 newspaper articles from 1913 to 1920 along with the 2016 "The Camps" web series.

Global Centre for Pluralism (GCP)

Name of recipient

Global Centre for Pluralism (GCP)

Start date

2006-07: One-time conditional grant

End date

Perpetual

Strategic outcome

Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity

Link to department's Program Alignment Architecture

Program 2.2: Engagement and Community Participation, Sub-program 2.2.5: Multiculturalism Program

Description

The Global Centre for Pluralism is a not-for-profit organization founded by His Highness the Aga Khan in partnership with the Government of Canada to address a global gap in institutions that advocate pluralism as a foundation for effective governance, peace and human development at the international level. The GCP pursues its mandate through four core functions:

• supporting international policy dialogue about pluralism, a core human value and practice;
• supporting academic and professional development;
• deepening global understanding of pluralism through research and learning; and
• building the capacity of governments, civil society organizations, donors and other potential champions to promote pluralism in their own societies, in part by providing global access to the Canadian experience.

These activities will target the developed and the developing world, offering a platform from which existing organizations and experts on pluralism in Canada and other parts of the world can reach and influence an international audience.

Total approved funding

A one-time conditional grant of $30 million from the Multiculturalism Program in 2016.

Comments on variances

n/a

Significant audit findings by the recipient during the reporting year, and future plan

n/a

Significant evaluation findings by the recipient during the reporting year, and future plan

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Summary of results achieved by the recipient

During the 2017-2018 fiscal year the Global Centre for Pluralism moved into its new headquarters at 330 Sussex Drive in Ottawa (January 20, 2017) and hosted a launch event on May 16, 2017, to coincide with the Centre's Spring Board meeting and Members' Annual General Meeting. Coinciding with Canada's sesquicentennial celebrations, the GCP implemented a year-long program of events highlighting their work and the importance of pluralism. Additionally the GCP: launched two new publications series: Intersections: Practicing Pluralism (how pluralism relates to established fields of practice) and Accounting for Change in Diverse Societies (what factors lead to more inclusionary or exclusionary responses to diversity in different countries); held the inaugural ceremony for the Centre's Global Pluralism Award in Ottawa in November 2017 to highlight the achievements of ten pluralism champions whose work in different fields and contexts promotes pluralism; hosted the second annual Global Pluralism Think Tank in Ottawa (March 31, 2017), with researchers from five continents, to review and advance the Centre's pluralism lens framework; and, engaged with Canadian and global partners in education, peacebuilding, democracy promotion and the private sector to inform and influence dialogue and decision-making for pluralism.