Based in Toronto, the Appleton Charitable Foundation is dedicated to supporting and promoting education and community awareness in the arts, the environment, humanities and public health.

The Appleton Charitable Foundation is a Canadian federal not-for-profit corporation act company recognized by the Canadian Revenue Agency as a public charitable organization. The Appleton Foundation has been in operation since 1998 and has supported many health, education, environmental, and cultural arts programs in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

The Appleton Charitable Foundation engages directly in charitable activities as well as funding other registered charities to promote philanthropic aims.

The APPLETON INITIATIVE

The APPLETON INITIATIVE is a multi-million dollar philanthropic program to enhance national and international connections fueled by the voices, power, and beauty of the culture and arts of Indigenous Peoples. The APPLETON INITIATIVE supports the expression, development, and engagement of reconciliation through arts, public policy, environmental remediation, health, and education. The APPLETON INITIATIVE supports enhanced indigenous reconciliation, discussion, and healing.

The program is designed to support direct charitable work, cultural institutions, and charitable not-for-profit organizations in Canada, the United States, and abroad.

News

07.13.21 | The Appleton Foundation provided financial support for the APPLETON INITIATIVE AT THE WAG. The Foundation announced the pilot project funding of the WAG IdeasLAB program. under the Foundation’s APPLETON INITIATIVE.

Barry Appleton, National Director of the Appleton Foundation, said, “Qaumajuq and the WAG focus on connecting Canada’s North and South and raising awareness of important issues that affect us all. The WAG IdeasLab Summer Interns bring new perspectives and essential collaboration to this conversation, allowing increased connection with one of the world’s top places to promote and protect Indigenous art. The Appleton Foundation is a proud supporter of Qaumajug and its quest to find innovative new ways to amplify Indigenous art and voices as part of a process of healing and reconciliation. We are excited to see the WAG IdeasLab as our first APPLETON INITIATIVE grant at the WAG. We cannot wait to see where this WAG IdeasLAB experiment can go”.

10.20.17 | The Appleton Foundation provided financial support for First Nations engagement and programming in connection with the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s exhibition of INSURGENCE / RESURGENCE, which runs at the Winnipeg Art Gallery from September 2017 until April 2018.

06.01.15 | The Appleton Foundation is pleased to announce its support for the electronic republishing of John Roberts’ monograph, Wilhelm von Humboldt and German Liberalism: A Reassessment. Humboldt’s absolute defense of liberty, advocacy of individuality, skepticism about the role of the state and active promotion of liberal and democratic institutions make him an outstanding exemplar of the often neglected German branch of classical liberalism.

05.20.12 | The Appleton Foundation is a proud supporter of the Canadian Friends of the 18th Biennale of Sydney.

2009 | The Appleton Foundation released a GreenApple US ranking report which examined American municipalities and targeted many of the same transportation policies and indicators as the Canadian version including: Air Quality, Public Policy, Transport Activity and Technology Adoption.

11.13.08 | The Appleton Foundation announced the release of the GreenApple Canada 2008 SMART Transportation Ranking Report. The GreenApple Canada SMART Transportation Ranking Report measures sustainable urban transportation performance in 27 of Canada’s largest urban areas. The urban area of Victoria, B.C. holds the first prize in the 2008 GreenApple Canada Ranking Report.

11.13.08 | The Appleton Charitable Foundation and the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia announce the results of the second annual GreenApple Canada 2008 SMART Transportation Ranking Report. Read more

09.23.08 | The Appleton Foundation attends the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York City to promote the GreenApple Project and create new partnerships for the production of a US Ranking Report. Download event brochure