By working with partners including The Synergos Institute and The Nature Conservancy and a number of Aboriginal leadership groups in Canada, The Samuel Family Foundation is undertaking a multi-year program to create and implement economically and environmentally sustainable development solutions for Canada's aboriginal population and to replicate these models in a number of other aboriginal communities around the world where systemic poverty is endemic. The Samuel Family Foundation sees this commitment as an important way of linking its national and international mandates as well as its corporate and philanthropic history. The Foundation has been directly inspired by the Clinton Foundation's call to arms for companies, foundations, and private citizens to becoming increasingly aware and engaged in terms of bridging divides. Accordingly, The Samuel Family Foundation will serve as both a Funding Partner (estimated amount of $5 million) and a Working Partner, utilizing its expertise at the Foundation level and Corporation level--The Samuel Group of Companies--which can provide management and business expertise.
The Samuel Family Foundation has a proud history of supporting the arts, health care, disability rights, education and environmental sustainability in Canada. In the past few years, the Foundation has broadened its mandate to the international arena by actively engaging in a number of successful multi-sectoral partnerships pertaining to global poverty alleviation, human rights advocacy, conservation, basic primary education, a global family support program pertaining to intellectual disabilities and most recently to indigenous peoples.
