Twenty-one financial services firms and organizations have contributed a total of $3.5 million into a new philanthropic fund designed to support awareness and education programs that promote openness, inclusiveness and equality.
The development of the Inclusion fund came following a mass shooting in a Quebec City mosque that killed six individuals and wounded 19 others in January.
The Inclusion fund will initially help finance ENSEMBLE, Equitas and Institut Pacifique, which are organizations located in Quebec that work with young people to build environments free of discrimination or harassment.
“The allocated funds will allow them, among other things, to broaden the scope of their existing programs,” states an announcement released Sunday. “Over the years, other organizations could be selected to be part of the Inclusion fund.”
The partners in the Inclusion fund are:
- Bank of Montreal
- Business Development Bank of Canada
- Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
- Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
- Desjardins Group
- Fondaction CSN
- Fonds de solidarité FTQ
- Great-West Life Assurance Co.
- Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc.
- Investors Group Inc.
- Intact Financial Corp.
- La Capitale Financial Group
- Mackenzie Financial Corp.
- Manulife Financial Corp.
- National Bank of Canada
- Power Financial Corp.
- Royal Bank of Canada
- Bank of Nova Scotia
- SSQ Life Insurance Co. Inc.
- Sun Life Financial Inc.
- Toronto-Dominion Bank
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