Education
Faith
partnership
Levy McLean Family Foundation
Transforming lives through conscious giving
Education
Health
Economic Mobility
Our Mission
Levy McLean Family Foundation is a private family charity dedicated to education, health and the elimination of poverty. Our passion is to address systemic needs in communities through our comprehensive programming and by partnering with charities in Canada, America, the Caribbean and Africa. Our approach is informed by looking below the surface at the systemic issues that create underprivileged communities. We educate ourselves on the specific issues targeting a community, and then seek to find a charity partner with expertise in the area. We take a people-first approach to developing our own programming which is uniquely designed to address a systemic issue in the community. The goal of all of our endeavors is to provide equal opportunity to individuals around the world so that they can use their unique gifts to cultivate a life of fulfillment. Let's transform lives together.
Conscious giving requires partnership. It means living a life of significance over one of sustenance.
Our Story
We have built our family on the foundational idea that we should live in community with others. It's been a tenet of our values that has carried us through raising children, overcoming poverty and building a home that is not just about serving our own needs. As we've grown in this journey together we've realized that "to whom much is given much is expected." Several years ago we started to look introspectively at our outlook towards community.
Our journey of giving started awhile ago, gifting financial donations to charities who promised to alleviate poverty and change lives. Even though we were making a difference, there was a cold distance that we couldn't shake. Every time we saw human suffering we realized we wanted to be part of the solution, but we always recognized that we were worlds away from the suffering that we saw. It was then that we recognized that there's a difference between passive giving and conscious giving.
Passive giving involves maintaining emotional distance from the need. Conscious giving requires partnership. It's more than throwing money at a problem, it involves seeing a person for who they are and recognizing the systemic issues that affect their life. It's also believing that a person in need has the ability and potential to attain the life they want, with a little help. For us the Levy McLean Family Foundation isn't just a charity, it's a mindset, one that involves living a life of significance over sustenance. Become one of our partners today, and join us in the path towards conscious giving.