ILEO In Action
February 2023
In this article, A-GM trades training participant and employee Syed Jafri speaks about the A-GM Joint Venture is helping him to kick start a new career path in Canada.
ILEO Selected as one of Canada's Frontrunner Innovations for Urban Transformations aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
April 2023
The ILEO Initiative was chosen as one of Canada's 100+ Frontrunner Urban SDGs Initiatives by World Urban Pavilion, UN-Habitat, the Urban Economy Forum and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) as an excellent example of a urban innovation that is paving the way to urban transformations. We look forward to working with the World Urban Pavilion to highlight our great 'made in Canada' ILEO urban innovation and transformation.
August 2022
In this Toronto Star opinion piece, Darryl White profiles the ILEO Initiative as a valuable example of an initiative that bring together community and corporate leaders to create new jobs, affordable housing, and help ensure strong and inclusive neighbourhoods.
January 2023
In this Toronto Star opinion piece, Darryl White profiles the ILEO Initiative as a valuable example of an initiative that bring together community and corporate leaders to create new jobs, affordable housing, and help ensure strong and inclusive neighbourhoods.
August 2022
In this article, Daniele Zanotti and Darryl White describe how businesses and community organizations have come together as part of the the ILEO Initiative to launch a series of pilots aimed at driving economic opportunity at the neighbourhood level.
April 2022
In this second part of the Re-imagining the Golden Mile series, we explore how massive on massive real estate redevelopments will transform the Golden Mile into one of the largest residential and commercial communities in Scarborough.
March 2022
In the first post of a three-part series about planned changes to the Golden Mile, we outline the three transit projects that will shape the neighbourhood's transformation.
December 2021
Learn about the Daniels Corporation's approach to inclusive art procurement as part of the Inclusive Local Economic Opportunity (ILEO) Corporate Charter.
December 2021
Joshua Adedamola, Executive Committee Member of the Aecon-Golden-Mile Joint Venture speaks about the joint venture partnership between construction giant Aecon Group Inc. and the Centre for Inclusive Economic Opportunity (CIEO), an umbrella organization of community groups, to take on a variety of building projects in the city’s Greater Golden Mile neighbourhood.
A Conversation between Darryl White and Daniele Zanotti on forging resilient economies at the International Economic Forum of the Americas, YouTube
October 2020
Darryl White ( CEO of BMO Financial Group) and Daniele Zanotti, (President and CEO of United Way Greater Toronto) speak about the unique approach taken with the ILEO initiative at a fireside chat during the International Economic Forum of the Americas.
Introducing the ILEO Initiative in the Golden Mile by BMO
November 2019
Ginelle Skerritt ( Former Executive Director of Warden Woods Community Centre), Darryl White ( CEO of BMO Financial Group) and Daniele Zanotti, (President and CEO of United Way Greater Toronto) speak about working together to find new solutions to encouraging economic inclusion in the GTA . In partnership with the City of Toronto, the Greater Golden Mile area in Scarborough was selected as the first to test the Inclusive Local Economic Opportunity approach in Fall 2019. It’s an area with a diverse population undergoing rapid change, where the community, City and private sector partners can work together to ensure change benefits local residents.