The B. Carmen Charles Foundation supports women, girls and families across Ontario through literacy, the arts, and community.
The B. Carmen Charles Foundation was founded with a vision of empowering women and strengthening families and communities across Ontario.
Our work focuses on supporting women and families facing barriers or difficult circumstances, while creating opportunities through literacy and education, arts, culture and heritage, youth development, and community engagement.
The Foundation serves as a bridge to essential resources, programs, and opportunities, helping women, girls, families, and communities build stronger, more inclusive, and resilient futures.
Our vision is to create a welcoming Ontario where every woman and family has the opportunity to thrive, participate, and contribute to their community.
The Foundation is committed to improving the well-being of women first and foremost, as well as families and communities across Ontario, by promoting inclusion, education, culture, literacy, the arts, sports, youth development, and civic engagement.
We value Ontario’s cultural, linguistic, and generational diversity and strive to build more inclusive, accessible, resilient, and equitable communities, where women and their families can thrive, participate fully, and contribute to society.
Three commitments shape everything the Foundation builds, from the programmes we run to the partners we choose.
Reading, learning and language programmes that open doors for women and young people.
Four areas of work, each one a door into the Foundation.
Programmes and campaigns run with and for women across the province.
Reading, culture and heritage work that keeps community memory alive.
Direct support and referrals for women and families who need a way through.
Give, partner or volunteer. Every route makes the same difference.
Your gift becomes literacy classes, arts programmes and direct support for women and families across Ontario.
