Our Causes
The Vukets family supports and believes in organizations that are the champions of their communities, that strive for beauty and a better quality of life for all.
Vision 2020
Vision 2020 is a program of Toronto Foundation. It is an entry point for the next generation of Toronto philanthropists that catalyzes the goodwill and brain trust of people under 45. Vision 2020 comprises 115 Millennial and Gen X donors, who have established 72 permanent endowments at the foundation to help realize change in communities they care about. Over the course of two years, these new philanthropists are participating in a ‘Philanthropic MBA’, our Vision 2020 learning journey, to help them identify the most pressing issues in the city, and develop their own philanthropic strategy to address them. At the end of the program, a cohort of informed, engaged philanthropists will emerge ready to tackle the issues and create meaningful change.
Arts And Business Exchange
Arts & Business Exchange (ABX) is a forum for future arts and business leaders to discuss trends, critical issues, and opportunities to engage with Canada’s arts and culture sector at a deeper level.
Started in 2008 by Business / Arts, abx was a gathering for artsScene’s national network of young professionals to meet and share best practices. This group of emerging leaders collaborated on how to encourage more young professionals to interact with the arts and take on volunteer leadership positions.
After ten years of artsScene, abx has established itself as a ‘must attend’ annual summit, attracting over 200 young business volunteers, artists and arts professionals from across Canada. Focusing on a topical and unique theme each year, abxparticipants work together to inspire deeper engagements in the next generation of arts leadership.
Ryerson Innovation Circle
The Ryerson Innovation Circle champions new ideas. Comprised of the next wave of business and thought leaders dedicated to making a positive impact in their community, the RIC is actively engaged in strengthening research and encouraging discovery.
Each member of the RIC has committed their time and a financial contribution to furthering innovative research. The RIC will oversee an annual pitch competition in which the winning research team receives $70,000 to significantly increase the impact and reach of their project.
Soulpepper Academy
The Soulpepper Academy is Canada’s only two-year full-time paid training program for multidisciplinary theatre artists composed of actors, designers, directors, playwrights, and producers. Founded in 2006, the Academy is an intense and highly demanding program designed to develop participants’ individual gifts as artists and to nurture highly skilled theatre practitioners ready to work as professionals in their chosen field.
Photo Credit: Cylla von Tiedemann
Business For The Arts (BFTA)
BFTA aims to strengthen arts and culture in Canada by connecting arts organizations to business patrons and volunteers through their artsScene and boardLink programs.
We sponsor the Arnold Edinborough Award. This award recognizes a young business professional age 40 and under who has demonstrated exemplary leadership and volunteerism in the arts.
Royal Conservatory of Music: Learning Through the Arts
The Karen & Michael Vukets Public School Development Program supports innovative online training programs that enlarge teachers’ capacity to support students of all backgrounds and adjust to changes in the learning profiles of today’s students. The program has a special interest in creating opportunity for students in high needs neighbourhoods through programs that make students feel special, provide consistent engagement and a sense of belonging, and support resilience and perseverance.
Royal Conservatory of Music: The Karen and Michael Vukets Public School Teacher Development Program
Leveraging The Royal Conservatory’s 19 years of work in public schools and intellectual property, The Karen and Michael Vukets Public School Teacher Development Program will provide diversified teacher education programs that boost the teaching skills, creativity and entrepreneurial energy of Canadian public school teachers.
The Hospital For Sick Children Foundation – Herbie Fund
Around the world, children with serious illnesses or injuries are unable to receive the life-saving or life-enhancing surgeries that they need. Every day, their parents are living with the knowledge that their child needs surgery that they cannot access because of where they live.
Our support joins with others in enabling the Herbie Fund to transform fear and despair into hope and healing for children and their families around the world.
Learn the story around the Herbie Fund and how it began.
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Vision 2020
Vision 2020 is a program of Toronto Foundation. It is an entry point for the next generation of Toronto philanthropists that catalyzes the goodwill and brain trust of people under 45. Vision 2020 comprises 115 Millennial and Gen X donors, who have established 72 permanent endowments at the foundation to help realize change in communities they care about. Over the course of two years, these new philanthropists are participating in a ‘Philanthropic MBA’, our Vision 2020 learning journey, to help them identify the most pressing issues in the city, and develop their own philanthropic strategy to address them. At the end of the program, a cohort of informed, engaged philanthropists will emerge ready to tackle the issues and create meaningful change.
Arts And Business Exchange
Arts & Business Exchange (ABX) is a forum for future arts and business leaders to discuss trends, critical issues, and opportunities to engage with Canada’s arts and culture sector at a deeper level.
Started in 2008 by Business / Arts, abx was a gathering for artsScene’s national network of young professionals to meet and share best practices. This group of emerging leaders collaborated on how to encourage more young professionals to interact with the arts and take on volunteer leadership positions.
After ten years of artsScene, abx has established itself as a ‘must attend’ annual summit, attracting over 200 young business volunteers, artists and arts professionals from across Canada. Focusing on a topical and unique theme each year, abxparticipants work together to inspire deeper engagements in the next generation of arts leadership.
Ryerson Innovation Circle
The Ryerson Innovation Circle champions new ideas. Comprised of the next wave of business and thought leaders dedicated to making a positive impact in their community, the RIC is actively engaged in strengthening research and encouraging discovery.
Each member of the RIC has committed their time and a financial contribution to furthering innovative research. The RIC will oversee an annual pitch competition in which the winning research team receives $70,000 to significantly increase the impact and reach of their project.
Soulpepper Academy
The Soulpepper Academy is Canada’s only two-year full-time paid training program for multidisciplinary theatre artists composed of actors, designers, directors, playwrights, and producers. Founded in 2006, the Academy is an intense and highly demanding program designed to develop participants’ individual gifts as artists and to nurture highly skilled theatre practitioners ready to work as professionals in their chosen field.
Photo Credit: Cylla von Tiedemann
Business For The Arts (BFTA)
BFTA aims to strengthen arts and culture in Canada by connecting arts organizations to business patrons and volunteers through their artsScene and boardLink programs.
We sponsor the Arnold Edinborough Award. This award recognizes a young business professional age 40 and under who has demonstrated exemplary leadership and volunteerism in the arts.
Royal Conservatory of Music: Learning Through the Arts
The Karen & Michael Vukets Public School Development Program supports innovative online training programs that enlarge teachers’ capacity to support students of all backgrounds and adjust to changes in the learning profiles of today’s students. The program has a special interest in creating opportunity for students in high needs neighbourhoods through programs that make students feel special, provide consistent engagement and a sense of belonging, and support resilience and perseverance.
Royal Conservatory of Music: The Karen and Michael Vukets Public School Teacher Development Program
Leveraging The Royal Conservatory’s 19 years of work in public schools and intellectual property, The Karen and Michael Vukets Public School Teacher Development Program will provide diversified teacher education programs that boost the teaching skills, creativity and entrepreneurial energy of Canadian public school teachers.
The Hospital For Sick Children Foundation – Herbie Fund
Around the world, children with serious illnesses or injuries are unable to receive the life-saving or life-enhancing surgeries that they need. Every day, their parents are living with the knowledge that their child needs surgery that they cannot access because of where they live.
Our support joins with others in enabling the Herbie Fund to transform fear and despair into hope and healing for children and their families around the world.
Learn the story around the Herbie Fund and how it began.
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Business / Arts – Arnold Award
RCM Music Champion Program – our initial donations went towards this, which has evolved to their teacher development program
Friends of Simon Wisenthal Centre
Context with Lorna Dueck
Canadian Film Centre
Business / Arts – Canadian Arts Summit
Herbie Fund
Context with Lorna Dueck – Life Beyond The Headlines
Context with Lorna Dueck is a weekly, half-hour, independently-produced television program. The program explores news and current affairs through the lens of faith.
Our foundation supports Context TV to expand its cultural influence by crossing generational lines to reach a broader and more youthful audience.
For more information visit Context with Lorna Dueck.
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre – Spirit of Hope Benefit"
The Spirit of Hope Benefit fosters dialogue about some of the most relevant issues of today with the objective of trying to make the world a better place by furthering and building bridges of tolerance, justice and human rights.
To learn more about FSWC visit FriendsOfSimonWiesenthalCenter.com.
Canadian National Ballet School: Sharing Dance for Seniors
We are all dancers! NBS Sharing Dance Seniors empowers adults and seniors of all abilities to experience the many physical, emotional, artistic, and social benefits of dance. Through the range of Sharing Dance Seniors programs, including Sharing Dance Parkinson’s, which offers high-quality classes specifically designed for people with Parkinson’s disease, dance is changing lives one step at a time!
Past Causes
- Business / Arts – Arnold Award
- RCM Music Champion Program – our initial donations went towards this, which has evolved to their teacher development program
- Friends of Simon Wisenthal Centre
- Context with Lorna Dueck
- Canadian Film Centre
- Business / Arts – Canadian Arts Summit
- Herbie Fund
- Context with Lorna Dueck – Life Beyond The Headlines
- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre – Spirit of Hope Benefit"
- Canadian National Ballet School: Sharing Dance for Seniors