DOUGLAS COLDWELL LAYTON FOUNDATION
Registered Name: THE DOUGLAS-COLDWELL FOUNDATION / LA FONDATION DOUGLAS-COLDWELL
Business No: 118887561RR0001
This organization is designated by Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) as a registered charity. They comply with the CRA's requirements and have been issued a charitable registration number.
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The Douglas Coldwell Layton Foundation adds to public dialogue through research and education in Canada now and for future generations.
Our Mission
The Douglas Coldwell Layton Foundation promotes the principles of social democracy while reclaiming the legacies of its founders and other social-democratic thinkers, writers and leaders. We contribute to public policy dialogue to provoke discussion through research and education by convening important conversations in Canada now and to support future generations.
About the Douglas Coldwell Layton Foundation/Fondation Douglas Coldwell Layton
The Douglas Coldwell Layton Foundation is Canada's charitable home for social democracy and its many leaders. It was founded nearly 50 years ago by the "Greatest Canadian" and the father of medicare in Canada, Tommy Douglas.
Tommy founded this charity to educate Canadians. We work with universities, colleges, and places of learning to ensure students receive tools, content, and the support they need to thrive.
Our research work and publications are shared with the public on our website for everyone to use and enjoy.
A dream our founders shared was to build an independent progressive charitable think tank unbound to any other organization or political party.
In November 1971 this dream became a reality with the establishment of the Douglas-Coldwell Foundation with Tommy Douglas as its founding President. In the words of Tommy Douglas, the Foundation would: "provoke discussion…to keep the movements on the left-whether the co-operative movement, the trade union movement or the political movement- from getting in a rut."
In 1987, our organization was strengthened through a merger with J.S. Woodsworth's own charity; the Woodsworth Memorial Foundation.
Through new research and educational programs, the Douglas Coldwell Layton Foundation aspires to teach Canadians about our founder's legacies and their important contributions to our country and modern-day society. Our goal is to advance the work and ideas of Tommy Douglas and his vision for a Canada where no person is left behind.
As of January 2022, the Douglas-Coldwell Foundation was renamed the Douglas Coldwell Layton Foundation, with Jack Layton being named a Founder of the charity.
The Douglas Coldwell Layton Foundation is a Canadian registered charity. All donations will be tax receipted.
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