Funding Partners

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): CIDA is World Literacy of Canada’s largest and longest standing funding partner, having worked with World Literacy of Canada since 1969.  In the years since, CIDA has been vital to World Literacy of Canada’s growth and continues to be a generous supporter.  We receive program funding through CIDA’s partnership branch, and are just beginning a new 2007-2012 program agreement, during which CIDA will fund nearly 50% of our overseas programming.  



The Ontario Trillium Foundation: The Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF), an agency of the Ministry of Culture, receives $100 million annually from Ontario’s charity casino initiative.  WLC is now in Year 2 of a three-year OTF grant to facilitate school-community storytelling festivals in four Toronto neighborhoods, promoting family literacy, home-school communication and cross-cultural understanding.