COMMUNITY ONE BLOG

Success Story: LOFT Community Services’ BLOOM Project

    “You have to do something! So we did.” When LOFT Community Services saw the number of transgender clients in their transitional housing balloon from an average of 4 to 14 in 2016, it was evident that a program designed for their specific needs was vital, and the response was the BLOOM project. “The […]

Success Story: Bi Arts Festival

Celebrate Bisexuality Day happens every year on September 23, but on a calendar awash in days of recognition, Toronto-based visual artist Catherine Jones wanted a more memorable way to help connect and affirm the experiences of her community, one she felt was too often misrepresented and brushed aside. “Being bisexual is particularly challenging;­ there are […]

Success Story: Bigger Than We

    When the Intergenerational Gathering Planning Committee received their Rainbow Grant from Community One Foundation to fund their event Bigger Than We, it was less than two weeks away, taking place in a replacement venue after an unanticipated challenge straight from an event planner’s nightmare – their original venue on the Toronto Islands had […]

Potential Rainbow Grants scam – don’t be a victim!

Last year, Community One Foundation was alerted that someone was trying to obtain personal information from Facebook users using the name ‘Rainbow Grants’. Through further investigation, we believed the page to be a scam and reported it to Facebook, who shut it down shortly after. We’ve recently received some messages from concerned individuals who claim […]