About Us

The Ivey Foundation is a private charitable foundation located in Toronto, Canada. It was incorporated without share capital as The Richard Ivey Foundation on December 31, 1947 under the laws of the Province of Ontario by the late Richard G. Ivey, Q.C., LL.D., and his son, Richard M. Ivey, C.C., Q.C., LL.D. Since 1947 the Foundation has made grants totalling $69.1 million.

The Ivey Foundation has grown, evolved and kept pace with an increasingly demanding and sophisticated grant-seeking community. With roots in London, Ontario, it helped establish that city as a centre of health-care excellence and home to a leading research-intensive university. Today, the Conserving Canada's Forests Program provides critical support for environmental sustainability across the country. Throughout its long and rich history, the Foundation has maintained a focus on the pursuit and support of excellence, but has also embraced change as a necessary element in its evolution.

As a family, we have been privileged to work together over three generations, sharing ideas, insights and passions about the possibilities of philanthropy. Going forward, the Ivey Foundation will continue in its mission to improve the well-being of Canadians by focusing its resources on selected issues of significance.

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Directors

Rosamond Ivey, Chair
Richard W. Ivey, Secretary and Treasurer
Suzanne Ivey Cook, Vice-Chair
Jennifer Ivey Bannock, Director
David Fillier, Director of Finance
Bruce Lourie, President (ex-officio)

Honorary Director

Richard M. Ivey

Conserving Canada’s Forests Program
Committee Members

Suzanne Ivey Cook, Committee Chair and Director, Ivey Foundation
Jennifer Ivey Bannock, Director, Ivey Foundation
Tim Gray, Program Director, Ivey Foundation
Bruce Lourie, President, Ivey Foundation
David Love, Executive Director, The Conservation Foundation of
Greater Toronto
Don Roberts, Managing Director, CIBC World Markets, Inc., Institutional Equity Research

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Staff

Bruce Lourie, President
Tim Gray, Program Director
Riti Mandal, Executive Assistant/Office Manager
Lara Ellis, Program Officer

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Conflict of Interest

The directors, committee members and staff of the Ivey Foundation are active in their communities, serving as board members or otherwise involved in a wide spectrum of for-profit, non-profit and charitable organizations. The Foundation recognizes the value of involving individuals in its work who have a diversity of experience, and are knowledgeable about the communities in which it works. This means that, from time to time, conflicts of interest or the appearance of such conflicts inevitably arise.

Where there is a material conflict of interest, e.g. a director, committee member or staff member of the Foundation is acting as a paid advisor, consultant or staff member of an applicant, the individual will declare the conflict, not receive any materials pertaining to the matter and absent themselves from discussions and decisions regarding the matter in question. Where a director, committee member or staff is acting as an unpaid advisor, board director or in some other voluntary capacity with an applicant, the individual will declare the conflict and avoid participating in decisions or votes regarding the application, but need not be absent from the discussion, according to the individual’s preference.

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Contact Information

Bruce Lourie
President
Ivey Foundation
11 Church Street, Suite 400
Toronto, Ontario
M5E 1W1

For further information about the Foundation's grantmaking programs or to provide feedback about the website, please contact us at:

e-mail: info@ivey.org

Telephone: (416) 867-9229

Fax: (416) 601-1689

Thank You

Ivey Foundation relies on peer reviews of proposals from a large list of anonymous experts across Canada. We thank them kindly for their outstanding voluntary contributions to our decision-making process.

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Site Credits

Photographs by Canadian photographer Thaddeus Holownia -- Walden Pond Revisited, 2000-2001
www.holownia.com

Site Design by Shauna Rae -- Inspired Creative & Graphic Design
shaunarae@mac.com

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