Today, employment involves so much more than just replying to a Help Wanted ad. And for newcomers to Canada, and people from marginalized communities in particular, finding employment becomes even more of a challenge.
Living in a large urban centre like the city of Toronto, making a change that creates a difference can seem unfeasible. But working on the ground to help both individuals and communities get on the right path is the life-changing impact United Way Greater Toronto (UWGT) is having on neighbourhoods across the Peel, Toronto and York regions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Learn about the Daniels Corporation's approach to inclusive art procurement as part of the Inclusive Local Economic Opportunity (ILEO) Corporate Charter.
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.
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.
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.