The Garceau Foundation was born out of a desire to provide the highest level of financial, professional and organizational support to frontline community action and social service groups tackling our most daunting challenges…health, hunger and homelessness. The need for the most effective intervention on behalf of these groups, already operating with strained resources, will become ever more acute.
Ours is a nation of wealth, but with only a thin veneer of affluence. Recently released government studies demonstrate that one-third of our urban households live below the poverty line and that the median household income in Canada has increased just slightly more than $100 a year over the past twenty-five years. Government programs do not always meet local needs and more and more non-governmental organizations are filling the gaps with more and more Canadians turning to them for help.