Our Mission

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The Olive Tree Foundation is dedicated to promoting and perpetuating philanthropy and enhancing community life through responsible grant making in Canada. The Olive Tree Foundation encourages and facilitates the creation and growth of endowment funds to enable the community to realize its potential. The Foundation maintains effective stewardship over all assets entrusted to it; distributes [...]

Ways to Contribute

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Making a Contribution When you give to the Olive Tree Foundation you join people from all walks of life with one thing in common – the desire to make a difference in your community. Giving can take several forms: Through your financial donations Sharing your talents, skill, and time by volunteering Being active in community [...]

About OTF Grants

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ABOUT OUR GRANTS The Olive Tree Foundation awards grants to not-for-profit organizations holding charitable registration with Customs and Revenue Canada Agency (or sponsored by an organization with charitable registration). We invite applications from community-based groups working within the fields of social, health and community services; education and library services; policy institutes and think tanks; and [...]

News

(December 12, 2011) – The Olive Tree Foundation announced today that it will provide a grant to the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto (BBBST) for the project ‘In-School Mentoring for Somali youth.’

The project will provide support, on the school premises and during the school day, to Somali elementary school children aged 10 – 12 (grades 5 and 6). The goal of the project is to mitigate the alarming High School drop-out rate that the Somali community is experiencing.

A group of Somali high-school mentors (‘Bigs’) will be matched one-to-one, with a child from their local elementary school who, for various psychosocial reasons, may be at risk of dropping out of school prematurely. Learn More

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    Ansar Healthcare Fund

    Ansar Financial Group had long desired setting up a fund to perpetually focus on the growing healthcare needs of the aging population. After extensive consideration, it has selected Olive Tree Foundation to fulfill this desire because of Olive Tree Foundation’s community based approached and attention to the long term needs of the community. A donor-advised [...]

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    Mohamed And Opheerah Nasir

    The ‘Mohamed and Opheera Nasir Leadership Scholarship’ was established to honor the significant contributions to the Canadian Muslim community of late Mohamed Nasir and his wife, Opheerah Nasir; and as a memorial to honor their parents Shabaan and Mohammed Nasir (parents of Opheera) and Jinette and Mohamed Ishmael (parents of Mohamed).