Dream Legacy Foundation: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · North York, ON · grants and contributions register · Eglinton–Lawrence

Dream Legacy Foundation: federal grants and contributions: 4 agreements; $6.4M value; 2 departments; 4 programs.

Assay record ASY-CA-1A1PWJY17Y · Cite as: Assay Systems, “Dream Legacy Foundation: federal grants and contributions”, https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/dream-legacy-foundation/

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4agreements
$6.4Mvalue
2departments
4programs

Largest agreements

1000091$3.0Mvalue2021start2024end

The Black Entrepreneurship Program Ecosystem Fund to help Black business owners and entrepreneurs across the country recover from the economic impact of COVID-19 and grow their businesses.

Diverse Women in Skill Trades$2.8Mvalue2025start2028end

The Women in the Skilled Trades Initiative focuses on funding projects that recruit, retain, and help women apprentices succeed in the 39 eligible Red Seals trades found predominately in the construction and manufacturing sectors. The initiative supports projects that: • create partnerships with women’s groups, community colleges, unions or employers to recruit women; • organize women-led events as an outreach tool to help attract women to the skilled trades; • offer mentorship by female role models, women-in-the-skilled-trades networks, and opportunities to share success stories; and • creat

The Social Enterprise Black Impact Longitudinal Study$550Kvalue2023start2027end

To measure the impact and effectiveness of WISEs on social and labour market outcomes for vulnerable populations such as people with disabilities, Indigenous people, youth, recent immigrants, homeless and individuals at risk of homelessness.

Community Learning and Co-Working Space$64.0Kvalue2022start2023end

The objectives of the Program are to; support the development and utilization of effective approaches to address social issues and challenges;.develop, exchange and apply knowledge, tools and resources that address social needs of individuals, families and communities; foster partnerships and networks to address existing and emerging social issues; recognize and support the ability of not-for-profit organizations to identify and address social development priorities; and, recognize and promote community engagement initiatives (e.g. volunteerism, corporate social responsibility, innovation, p

Departments

Employment and Social Development Canada3agreements$3.4Mvalue3programs
  • CAS-Women Skilled Trades
  • Work Integration Social Enterprises - Grant
  • SDPP-CF - Supporting Black Communities - Grant

All grants from Employment and Social Development Canada

Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario1agreements$3.0Mvalue1programs

Years

20251agreements$2.8Mvalue1programs
  • CAS-Women Skilled Trades
20231agreements$550Kvalue1programs
  • Work Integration Social Enterprises - Grant
20221agreements$64.0Kvalue1programs
  • SDPP-CF - Supporting Black Communities - Grant
20211agreements$3.0Mvalue1programs
  • Black Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Fund

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.