FYI FUTURE READY FUND

 

The York-South Weston and Oakwood-Vaughan communities face unique challenges. Youth living here are disproportionately impacted by food insecurity, disconnected from rapid transit, post-secondary education and employment opportunities compared to the rest of Toronto. The FYI FutureReady Fund (formerly called the FYI Future Fund) supports youth in these communities towards brighter futures through removing barriers and providing the funding, resources, and mentorship support youth need to truly reach for the stars. The FYI FutureReady Fund achieves this through three main missions:

1) Make Post-Secondary Possible: Removing the financial barriers for youth pursuing higher education, trades, training, & apprenticeship programs through scholarship awards

2) Fund Young Entrepreneurs: Providing financial support and training to young entrepreneurs.

3) Access Healthy Meals: Responding to food insecurity needs in our community through providing free meals and financial support to access healthy food to families in crisis.

 
 

Choose your Impact

For Youth Initiative’s FutureReady Fund campaign focuses on removing barriers for youth in three main ways.

Our FutureReady Fund donors fall under three categories to allow for this impact.

We invite you to help us end the cycle of inequity youth face from vulnerable communities across Toronto - Donate to the FYI Future Fund today!

 

Grow our capacity to meet the growing food insecurity needs in our community.

Support the access of healthy and nutritious meals to youth in our space and the community

How you’ll make an impact:

  • $300 - Help us continue to provide healthy and culturally relevant after-school meals to youth in our space (we serve dinner to an average of 60-80 youth in our space every week day costing an average of $300 a week)

  • $500 - provide 10 low income youth and their families with $50 grocery gift cards

Remove the financial barriers for youth pursuing higher education, trades, training, & apprenticeship programs.

Support youth pursuing post-secondary education, training, and apprenticeships.

How you’ll make an impact:

  • $95 - Funds one college application fee for up to five program choices

    $250 - Funds one university application fee for up to five program choices

    $2000 - Scholarship: Funds post-secondary expenses for one youth

Help us provide financial support and training to young entrepreneurs.

Help us provide funding, mentorship, and training to help aspiring young entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground

How you’ll make an impact:

  • 100% of your donations go directly to young entrepreneurs

  • Funding via seed grants to help young entrepreneurs get their business off the ground

  • Access to mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs and professionals for youth

  • Provision of training and valuable professional development opportunities