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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 $2B in grants to hundreds of carefully selected grantees, class actions in the public interest, and to Legal Aid Ontario.

The Law Foundation of Ontario works in five broad areas:

Grantmaking

Funds to Legal Aid Ontario

Class Proceedings Fund

Guthrie Award

Build and share knowledge

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

Class Proceedings Fund

Guthrie Award

Build and share knowledge

Builds and shares knowledge that strengthens the nonprofit justice sector by:

Evaluating our grantmaking to better understand our impact, and sharing the knowledge gained
Proactively designing and testing innovative research and projects to explore new ideas and approaches to access to justice and to emerging issues
Fostering collaborations among diverse partners from within and outside the justice sector