Our work

The Law Foundation of Ontario takes an active and engaging approach to our work in five broad areas to carry out our mandate of advancing access to justice.
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Madame Justice Thorburn volunteers with OJEN, helping young people better understand and relate to the justice system, and the people who work within it

The Law Foundation of Ontario takes an active and engaging approach to our work as a grantmaker and to carry out our mandate of advancing access to justice. Since our creation in 1974, we have worked with and given out over $1B in grants to hundreds of carefully selected grantees and to Legal Aid Ontario.

The Law Foundation of Ontario works in five broad areas:

Grantmaking

Manages a number of grant programs and makes grants to support a wide range of nonprofit organizations to help people understand the law and to use the law to improve their lives

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Funds to Legal Aid Ontario
Build and share knowledge
Guthrie Award
Class Proceedings Fund

What's new

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2023-2024 Public Interest Articling Fellowship participants

September 14, 2023

Meet the 2023-2024 Public Interest Articling Fellowship participants: Kassandra Neranjan, Emma Partridge, Sarah Gordon, Chantal Larocque, Megan Linaric, Abigail Anderson, Myka Kollmann

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Gerald Chan appointed to The Law Foundation of Ontario Board of Trustees

August 14, 2023

The Law Foundation of Ontario is pleased to announce the appointment of Gerald Chan to its Board of Trustees.

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New partnership with Black Opportunity Fund supports justice-related services for Black communities

July 31, 2023

The Foundation is pleased to be partnering with the Black Opportunity Fund to support its inaugural Criminal Justice granting steam.