Organizations SupportedThe Rasch Foundation has funded a wide variety of different projects. The following is only a partial list of charities that we have funded in the past. Please note that this list includes the recipients of both grant proposals and discretionary funding.
EDUCATION
HEALTHCARE & MEDICAL RESEARCH
- San Filippo Children’s Research Foundation
- North York General Hospital Foundation
- About Face The Craniofacial Family Society
- Thyroid Foundation of Canada
- Heart and Stroke
- Doctors Without Borders
- Canadian Lung Association
- Head and Neck Cancer Foundation
- Hospital for Sick Children
- The Arthritis Society
- Mount Sinai Hospital Surgical Research Fund
- Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care
- Murals of Hope
- Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation
- Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation
- Starlight Children’s Foundation Canada
- York Central Hospital Foundation
- Easter Seal Society
- Ontario March of Dimes
- The Baycrest Centre Foundation
- Jacob’s Ladder Canadian Foundation For Control Of Neurodegenerative Disease
- The Canadian National Institute For The Blind
- The Canadian Red Cross Society
- Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
ANIMAL WELFARE
- Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- Humane Society Of Canada
- Etobicoke Humane Society
- Northern Alberta Society for the Protection of Animals
DISCRETIONARY FUNDING
- Yorktown Shelter for Women
- Royal Canadian Legion
- Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation
- Canadian International Scientific Exchange Program
- Jericho’s Echo
- Rotary Foundation Canada
- Heritage Toronto
- Children’s Aid Foundation
- United Way Of Canada
- Tides Canada Foundation
- Oxfam Canada
- Oraynu Community For Secular Humanistic Judaism
- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
- Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Toronto Jewish Free Loan Cassa
- JewishGen.Org
- Albert and Temmy Latner Jewish Public Library
- Pups for Peace
- Jewish Family & Child Service
- Hadassah Wizo Toronto
- United Jewish Appeal
The following selection of past grants highlights the diversity of our giving:
- Major funding for Murals of Hope, a charity that aims to brighten the lives of sick and abused children by painting murals in hospitals and other health facilities and social agencies serving children.
- Funding to develop a computerized patient care system that is remotely accessible by doctors using PDAs to improve the continuity of care provided to terminally ill patients of a Toronto area Palliative Care Centre.
- Startup funding for Pups for Peace, a nonprofit group that buys, trains and deploys explosive-sniffing dogs throughout Israel to help prevent terrorist attacks.
- Annual funding to hold a lectureship at Mount Sinai Hospital by a visiting expert to advance the education of resident doctors on the subject of Oncological Surgery.
- Seed funding for Vartana, Canada’s first nonprofit financial institution dedicated to meeting the needs of the voluntary sector.