Initiative archives

Economic Inclusion

Employers must take action to address the barriers that limit Indigenous, Black and racialized talent from entering the workforce, career advancement and professional development.

Better Child Care in the GTHA

As part of CivicAction’s Better City Bootcamp in 2015, participants drove attention to five interrelated themes that could help transform our region, including the importance of the “first 1,000 days” in a child’s life.

Modernizing Income Security for Working-Age Adults

Strong Neighbourhoods Task Force

In 2003, Toronto City Summit Alliance (now CivicAction) called upon the Prime Minister and Premier to implement a new fiscal deal for municipalities.

Under the Influence: Anti-Sex Trafficking Awareness Campaign

The signs of an unhealthy relationship aren’t always obvious. To educate people on the issue of sex-trafficking and to help keep more young people safe, CivicAction worked with over 20 cross-industry partners to develop the Under the Influence campaign.

Toronto Global

In February of 2014, co-chairs of the Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance (GTMA), Mayor Dave Ryan, City of Pickering, and John Tory, past Chair, CivicAction, gathered to call for business and all levels of government to embark on a properly funded regional team effort to pursue and attract potential investment and jobs to the Greater Toronto Area.

MindsMatter

CivicAction’s 2015 Better City Bootcamp Summit flagged workplace mental health as a major risk or opportunity to our prosperity.
Original research with CANCEA and Morneau Shepell showed that approximately half of the GTHA’s workforce had experienced a mental health issue, and over the next 10 years, current mental health issues in the GTHA labour force could result in almost $17 billion in lost productivity.

Escalator: Companies and Youth Moving Up

Escalator brings together private, public and community sectors and uses innovative solutions to tackle unemployment for opportunity youth across Ontario. Escalator aims to unlock our full business and talent potential.

Your32

The Your32 campaign aimed to build support for investment in a better regional transportation system and championed the need for new sustainable ways to pay for it.

Race to Reduce

Race to Reduce mobilized the commercial office sector to reduce energy use and carbon emissions, while saving millions of dollars in costs.