Published June 21, 2019 | By Inspirit Foundation Jason Ryle has been part of imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival for over fifteen years. In March, the organization released On Screen Protocols & Pathways —a resource for anyone who wants to create content related to Indigenous communities in Canada. Inspirit was a funder of the document, and also … Continued
Published June 11, 2019 | By Inspirit Foundation Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Sudanese-born Canadian citizen, fought for six years to return home to Canada after the US wrongly accused him of having ties to Al Qaeda. In the Long Way Home, filmmakers Ariel Nasr and Aisha Jamal chronicle Abdelrazik’s visit to Sudan in 2006, the subsequent … Continued
Published May 27, 2019 | By Jory Cohen, Director of Social Finance and Investment | This post focuses on the next step in the series describing the steps my wife, Jill, and I are taking to reach a 100% impact portfolio: our investment in RE Royalties, a publicly-traded company in its early stages of operations. … Continued
Published April 25, 2019 | By Inspirit Foundation | “I made a film I didn’t want to make,” Tasha Hubbard says of her latest work, nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up. Premiering as the opening film at this year’s Hot Docs Film Festival, the documentary follows Colten Boushie’s family’s quest for justice following his murder in … Continued
Published April 23, 2019 | By Inspirit Foundation | For decades, McGill University’s sports team name has been an antiquated and derogatory term referring to Indigenous peoples. On April 12, 2019, the university announced that it would no longer be using that name; a new one is expected to be announced by the beginning of the 2020 … Continued
Published April 8, 2019 | By Jory Cohen, Director of Social Finance and Investment | A little while ago my wife Jill and I committed to a 100% impact portfolio; our goal is to transition our investment portfolio to one entirely composed of impact investments. This is the sixth post outlining one of the steps in … Continued
Our granting programs over the years has connected Inspirit with a diverse range of change leaders from across Canada. From civic engagement to storytelling, these organizers, educators, artists, environmentalists and activists bold push against the boundaries of inclusion. Diasporic storyteller, photographer and Afrofuturist artist Riya Jama is one such change leader. Using original photography and … Continued
The following blog post was written by Sidrah Ahmad, a researcher behind The Rivers of Hope Toolkit. This project was a 2018 ChangeUp grantee. You can also find it here on TVO’s Shared Values blog. When I was at my best friend’s place last week for dinner, she told me about a frightening incident that had … Continued
This post was originally published by The Philanthropist. Six men killed, six women widowed, 17 children left fatherless, and one survivor paralyzed. Two years on, many Muslims are still reeling from the shock of the attack on the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City. As communities across the country gather on January 29 to remember … Continued
Muslim Awareness Week began on January 25 to commemorate the second anniversary of the Quebec City mosque shooting on January 29, 2017. It has been two years since a lone gunman walked into the mosque and killed six Muslims. For many Muslims, the mosque is sanctified space; it is where students can quickly pop in to … Continued
