The Earth Day announcement comes less than six months after nine charities and wealthy families agreed to invest $405 million over the next decade.
Most of the funds announced this week $70 million came from the Lawson Foundation, with $60 million of that total devoted to a new, multidisciplinary Lawson Climate Institute at the University of Toronto.
"People are ready to step up in a way that, to defend the climate progress that has been made in Canada and internationally over recent years," Clean Economy Fund Executive Director Eric Campbell said.
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Empowerment Plan is a nonprofit aimed at helping countless homeless people find jobs. To combat the country’s homeless crisis, the Plan hires homeless people and teaches them how to make coats for the homeless suffering on the streets.