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2022 Dedication Award - Greater Toronto
Amanda Hadidia
As a front-line social work specialist with the Financial Empowerment team at WoodGreen Community Services, Amanda works tirelessly to help people who are living in poverty to overcome financial crises, achieve financial goals and improve their stability and wellness. She approaches each client with humility, empathy, curiosity, and sensitivity to the multitude of intersectional barriers that […]
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2022 Innovation & Creativity Award - Greater Toronto
Tejal Solanki
For more than 12 years, Tejal has been a Youth Mentoring Coach for COSTI Vaughan’s Employment Team. During the pandemic, she took on the additional role of Regional Coordinator of the netWORKS program, a program that works with four United Way agencies to provide networking and mentoring services to help young adults facing multiple barriers […]
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2022 Innovation & Creativity Award - Greater Toronto
Juno Zavitz
In January of 2021, Juno (they/them) co-founded a new initiative to respond to the burnout, trauma and grief experienced by frontline workers and community helpers in the overdose/drug poisoning crisis in Toronto. This initiative is the first of its kind – delivering wellness and support services, training and crisis response to the frontlines. Part of […]
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2022 Partnership Award - Greater Toronto
Madhuri Payidiparty
At the start of the pandemic, we mobilized to address gaps that our member organizations indicated they did not have capacity to address. This resulted in Volunteer MBC taking on a more significant level of frontline service. Our Continuum of Care project involves coordination with several organizations in the supply and demand of emergency response […]
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2022 Partnership Award - Greater Toronto
Jules Montgomery
As the Coordinator of The Corner Drop-In serves at The Neighbourhood Group Community Services , Jules works tirelessly to service and maintain supports for the most vulnerable community, those who are homeless, facing mental health and substance use challenges, living in deep poverty and coping with various forms of marginalization at a time when many […]
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2021 Culture Award - Greater Toronto
DRM 4 Equity Working Group
Adam Hess, Alpa Patel, Lyndsay Nugent, Monika Go, Nayeon Kim, Samra Habib | Nominated by Nicole McVan, Mary Cranston, Rosalind Franklin, and Alka Graham This group, committed to leading this work, represented the communities we serve and set a model for a future of philanthropy that is built in solidarity with our communities and each […]
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2021 Culture Award - Greater Toronto
Ronnie Gorman
Ronni Gorman | Nominated by Juneeja Varghese and Alex Dow Over the last year, Ronni demonstrated that she is a trusted and respected by partners and residents, and built a strong rapport within the community sector. Ronni models a genuine passion for the community, assuring community is at the centre of everything she does and […]
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2021 Culture Award - Greater Toronto
Paul Chamberlain
Paul co-led an initiative to make the Toronto Enterprise Fund’s processes more accessible to organizations led by and serving the Black community. He developed the Black-focused Employment Social Enterprise (ESE) Idea Accelerator by reaching out internally and externally to Black leaders to understand barriers Black social entrepreneurs were facing, and how best to dismantle those […]
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2021 M-B Award - Greater Toronto
Gift Processing Team (4)
Team Members: Alketa Kice, Demi Jin, Lori Ferron, Sandra McGlynn The Gift Processing Team is recognized for their significant contributions to our collective campaign success and for shining a light on the importance of donation processing. This group took on new roles, moving out of their comfort zones to learn and embrace new challenges, and […]
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2021 M-B Award - Greater Toronto
Juneeja Varghese
Juneeja played a key role in the design and implementation of a neighborhood food distribution hub model that saw 162,500 meals deployed to key areas of the region experiencing high food insecurity. As our representative on the Emergency Food Table, Juneeja stepped out of her traditional job functions to directly work with and support key […]
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