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TABLE OF CONTENTS PRESIDENT’S

Land Acknowledgment 2 MESSAGE
President’s Message 3
Platform and Sustainable Welcome to the Huronia
Development Goals 4 Community Foundation’s
Who We Are 5 2022/2023 Vital Signs® report.
Environment 5
Health and Wellbeing 8 Huronia Community
Agriculture 11 Foundation (HCF) has been
working to strengthen our
Jobs, Labour and the Economy 12 community since the end of
Affordable Housing 15 the second millennium. For 23 years, we’ve been
Call to Action 19 connecting the generosity of donors with the energy
Acknowledgments 19 and ideas of people and charities across our region.

SUSTAINABLE HCF looks upon ourselves as the charity for charities.
By using our knowledge to identify the needs of
DEVELOPMENT the community, we connect people, families, and

GOAL 17 businesses with causes that inspire them – pooling
resources and expertise to achieve the greatest
The Huronia impact.
Community
Foundation is Vital Signs is a national program led by community
committed to foundations and coordinated by Community
continued support Foundations of Canada that leverages local
of the community knowledge to measure the vitality of our
by hosting further communities and support action toward improving
conversations on the community’s our quality of life.
priority issues, and championing The community knowledge gained through Vital
groups and organizations involved in Signs allows HCF to make data-driven decisions that
making the North Simcoe region a respond to the needs of our communities. Priorities
better place for all. identified within the report will guide our decision-
making as a community leader and funder and
ACCESS TO OUR result in the ability to move the needle on the most
DATA IS PUBLIC pressing issues.

Community Foundations of Canada Our volunteer committee has worked tirelessly
has provided a website for us where to collect and combine the data from numerous
relevant Stats Canada data, survey sources. For their efforts, I am truly grateful. I am
analysis and other reference data and also thankful for the support of our sponsors, and
reports are located. funders for their generosity which has allowed us
to complete the report and provide online access to
the data. Lastly, I would like to thank our community
partners who actively got involved and shared
their information with us. It is partnerships such as
these that make our community stronger and more
resilient.

I hope that you find this report valuable. Please be
sure to share it with your family and friends.

The Vital Signs trademark is used with Don McCready, President
permission from Community Foundations Huronia Community Foundation
of Canada.
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