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This issue:

1 ) PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE AND LOCATION – Register for the SPT Member Forum: Responding to the “Partnership Project”
2 ) New SPT Study Finds Disturbing Barriers to Enrollment for Non-Status Immigrant Students in Toronto’s Catholic Schools
3 ) York South-Weston LIP Project Update
4 ) Non-Profit Recession Rages On
5 ) Building Community from the Bottom Up
6 ) News From Our Partners
7 ) Worth Repeating – The Long Form Census – Three Papers Agree….
8 ) Get Involved in Social Planning Toronto
9 ) About Social Planning Toronto
10 ) Join us on Twitter & Facebook

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“Policy without Practice”, an audit of all 201 Toronto District Catholic schools, released today by the Social Planning Toronto, looks at the barriers to enrollment for non-status immigrants in Toronto’s catholic schools and is a follow up to Social Planning Toronto’s 2008 report entitled: “The Right to Learn: Access to Public Education for Non-Status Immigrants”. [...]

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“Policy without Practice”, an audit of all 201 Toronto District Catholic schools, released today by the Social Planning Toronto, looks at the barriers to enrollment for non-status immigrants in Toronto’s catholic schools and is a follow up to Social Planning Toronto’s 2008 report entitled: “The Right to Learn: Access to Public Education for Non-Status Immigrants”.

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Community service organizations across Ontario report an unyielding dilemma, driven by the economic recession: how to meet increasing demand for services with falling revenues from funding sources.

A Recovery-Free Zone, a survey of 311 non-profit community service agencies across Ontario, released today by the Social Planning Network of Ontario follows up one year later on a similar survey conducted in 2009. It shows that service demand continues to rise with 68% of respondents seeing a greater demand in April 2010 than prior to September 2008. Almost 80% of respondents attribute this increase in demand as primarily or in part due to economic conditions.

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We regret that the Social Planning Toronto Membership Forum on the “Partnership Project,” which had been scheduled for Wednesday, July 21st, with special guest Helen Burstyn has been postponed to Tuesday, August 10th, 9:30 – 11:30 AM. The location has also been moved from the Lillian Smith Library to the Social Planning Toronto Meeting Room at 2 Carlton St. We regret any inconvenience this change in date and venue may cause.

The Ontario Government has launched an initiative to strengthen the relationship between the Government of Ontario and the non-profit sector.

Organizations across Ontario have the opportunity to respond to these and other questions through the “Partnership Project” website, and a limited number of other consultations across the Province are planned as part of the process.

Social Planning Toronto wants to ensure that the perspectives of our member organizations are fully represented in this process. To this end, we are convening this “Member Forum”.

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