Grants and Contributions

Monthly art therapy and grief support groups, cultural workshops open to families, seasonal ceremonies, and weekly drop-in sessions will foster connection, cultural reconnection, and community healing.

July 2023 - Global food insecurity is at an all-time high. According to the 2022 Global Nutrition Report, one in 10 people worldwide are hungry or undernourished. Deteriorating economic conditions, conflict, climate change and infectious disease outbreaks continue to undermine years of progress on good nutrition and food security. Estimates show that by the end of 2022, at least 222 million people across 53 countries will need urgent starvation assistance. The undernutrition crisis shows no signs of slowing.

With GAC’s support, Action Against Hunger aims to provide lifesaving assistance to address the urgent needs of up to 2,000,000 crisis-affected people across the globe over three years. This project focuses on improving the nutritional status of vulnerable populations, through delivering emergency nutrition and complementary health and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in approximately ten countries each year. The project also includes a global technical component to provide gender-responsive nutrition technical support services to global, regional and local actors.

Project activities include: (1) providing treatment of severe acute malnutrition for girls and boys under the age of five and women of reproductive age; (2) providing gender-sensitive health support for women, girls and boys, such as access to baby and child-friendly spaces and gender-based violence referral pathways; (3) providing gender-sensitive WASH services at the community level and in health facilities; (4) providing sexual reproductive health and rights services and support for the decision-making role of women; (5) providing mental health gender-based violence-related support for women, girls, men and boys; and (6) providing nutrition technical support services to global, regional and local actors.

The project goal is to determine the feasibility of using machine rating data (i.e., a live data feed) to build predictive models for detecting high-risk gambling behaviour patterns on the gaming floor to trigger effective and safer gambling customer actions (e.g., automated responsible gambling messaging and personal RG interactions). Focal has built commercial risk detection models using player data for over 15 years, recently developing the ALeRT™ BETTOR Protection System, a leading technology to identify and manage risk among member customers. There is uncertainty about how to use anonymous data feeds to extend protection to those wagering without using an identifier and the best way to deploy such a system to achieve improved player outcomes.

Through the application of national and local priorities, the CSJ program seeks to provide youth, particularly those who face barriers to employment with access to work opportunities. Funded employers must demonstrate that they are providing quality work experiences for youth that provide opportunities to develop and improve their skills.

Through the application of national and local priorities, the CSJ program seeks to provide youth, particularly those who face barriers to employment with access to work opportunities. Funded employers must demonstrate that they are providing quality work experiences for youth that provide opportunities to develop and improve their skills.

The DigitALL initiative will open a door to digital learning by offering accessible digital literacy classes, drop-in sessions, and micro-credentialing workshops.