Northpine Foundation
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SCARBOROUGH

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May 10, 2026

Building a hyper-local community of support, from early years to meaningful employment.

Learn about our hyper-local approach, and the cradle-to-career chain of support we are building across the borough.

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May 10, 2026

A strong start before school begins (Cradle-to-Career Strategy - Stage 1)

Why we invest in family stabilization, early literacy, and culturally-rooted care in the years before children ever set foot in a classroom.

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May 10, 2026

Making school work, and keeping the door to graduation open (Cradle-to-Career Strategy - Stage 2)

How we invest in attendance, mentorship, and academic momentum from Grade 1 through graduation — the years that decide whether earlier investments compound or quietly evaporate.

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May 10, 2026

Pathways into work that lasts, and households that hold (Cradle-to-Career Strategy - Stage 3)

How we invest in work that young Scarborough adults can keep and build on — and in the households around them, where the next cradle-to-career cohort is being raised.

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Scarborough has shaped Canada's culture through its food, music, and entrepreneurial drive. It’s home to over 600,000 people from around the world, with ambition in abundance, doing remarkable things with grit, determination, and humility.

$16.9 M

invested across

25

organizations

278

children supported in educational and after-school programs

200

families receiving essential supports

668

persons placed in meaningful employment

About This Portfolio

Scarborough is home to 9 of Toronto's 31 Neighbourhood Improvement Areas (NIAs) where families face overlapping challenges. Here, we’ve found, focused investment can unlock extraordinary potential.

From Cataraqui to West Hill and across NIAs, needs differ block by block. Solutions are shaped locally, guided by lived experience and strengthened through shared insights and integrated approaches.

Our strategic investments in these solutions follow children from their earliest years through education and into the workforce, staying accountable to real results, and grounded in the communities we serve.

Our Investees

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Impact Team

We are a small, dedicated team of people, with our impact leaders embedded in the areas they serve, working to change what's possible for our communities across Canada.

Our Approach

We invest across the full arc of a young person's life, building a chain of support from early childhood, through school and into meaningful employment. We back organizations who understand the challenges, are known and trusted by the people they serve, and have clear evidence that their work is making a real difference.

What We Fund

  • Early years and family stabilization programs that give children the foundation to thrive in school
  • School-based and after-school programs that drive attendance, academic engagement and credit accumulation, or offer support for post-secondary access
  • Employer-connected employment pathways for youth and young mothers, including paid placements, sector-aligned training and entrepreneurship
  • Organizations that address upstream challenges like food security, housing stability, disability navigation that could make or break other interventions
  • Non-profits, charities and for-profits at any stage, using place-based approaches that understand how supports need to work together across a young person’s life

Investee Highlights

Browse updates and media coverage of our investee partners, showcasing their work and impact.

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December 13, 2025

20,000 Visits. Thousands of Lives. One Centre Making It Possible.

This past year was one of the busiest in our 25-year history at the Canadian Centre for Refugee & Immigrant Healthcare. Since the pandemic, 8,000 new refugees and vulnerable newcomers have turned to us for help

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May 4, 2025

Malvern Urban Farm expands with new lab in Scarborough to advance food security

An urban farm that helps address food insecurity in Toronto's east end is about to get bigger. A new initiative will help even more people learn how to grow their own food. The CBC's Naama Weingarten reports.

Northpine Diagnostic Imaging Department

September 29, 2025

Celebrating the Grand Opening of the Northpine Diagnostic Imaging Department

A transformational new facility delivering faster, more advanced diagnostic care in Scarborough

SAAAC Autism donation

August 9, 2023

‘Everyone deserves a chance’: Northpine donation in Scarborough makes jobs possible for hundreds of neurodiverse youth

South Asian Autism Awareness Centre’s Goodness Gift program to scale up

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March 17, 2026

SSS Foundation Spotlight

A special thank you to The Northpine Foundation and Neel Joshi for their commitment and investment in Scarborough youth.

5N2 Vertical Farm

December 15, 2023

‘Better than organic’: Scarborough’s 5N2 food charity takes step toward sustainability by growing hydroponic produce

Volunteers make hundreds of meals a day