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Toronto Enterprise Fund

Matt BrubacherManager, Community Investment and Toronto

Enterprise Fund

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TEF Overview

The Toronto Enterprise Fund was established in 2000 to support the implementation of social enterprises that provide transitional or permanent employment, or training leading to employment, for people who are marginalized.

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TEF Overview

TEF is a funding partnership between:

• United Way Toronto

• City of Toronto

• Ontario Ministry of Community & Social

Services

• Homelessness Partnership Strategy, a

federal program administered by the

City of Toronto

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TEF Overview

TEF’s Main activities:

• Grants

• Business

development support

• Sector building

• Research, evaluation

and publications

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TEF Overview

Since 2000 TEF has funded 50 social enterprises

that employed nearly 3,000 people who are:

• Living with mental illnesses or other disabilities

• Newcomers and refugees

• Youth from disadvantaged backgrounds

• Receiving social assistance

• Living in social housing

• Street-involved