Healthier Futures, Together

Our Food Security & Systems focus area aims to increase access to high-quality, culturally relevant food while promoting dignity, choice, and stability. We support approaches that go beyond emergency food relief and instead create sustainable systems that improve health and opportunity for children, youth, and families at the highest risk of food insecurity. The outcomes we strive to support include: 

• Improved school food programs in Ontario and Alberta 
• Expanded access to fresh, culturally appropriate food in underserved neighbourhoods through public markets and urban agriculture 
• Reduced waste of high-quality food through food rescue and redistribution 

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, one of the world’s leading cancer research and treatment centres, is known for its breakthrough discoveries that transform patient outcomes. They work to benefit cancer patients everywhere in pursuit of their mission to create a world free from the fear of cancer.

The bold vision for the Peter Gilgan Centre for Early Cancer Detection Research is to discover new ways to detect the disease before it starts or spreads, creating breakthrough technologies, therapies, and AI-driven tools that save lives.

Since its inception in 2005, Tour de Bleu, the annual cycling fundraiser hosted by Mattamy Homes and the Peter Gilgan Foundation, has raised more than $53 million to benefit world-class organizations such as SickKids, CAMH, Women’s College Hospital, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, the Mattamy National Cycling Centre, Markham/Stouffville Hospital, Trillium Health Partners, William Osler Health System and now the University Health Network’s Krembil Brain Institute.

This year’s partnership with UHN Foundation reflects the Peter Gilgan Foundation’s commitment to investing in brain health — an area of urgent need as populations age and the prevalence of neurodegenerative disease continues to rise.