Our Partners
The success of this program is largely dependent on our strong and collaborative relationships with similarly aligned organizations who share our values.
To help fulfill its commitments, EllisDon partnered with several expert parties to form the Community Benefits Working Group. The group, co-chaired jointly by EllisDon and West Park Healthcare Centre is joined by the Toronto Community Benefits Network, United Way, Hammer Heads and Infrastructure Ontario.
EllisDon
EllisDon is a world-leading construction and building services company that completes in excess of $5 billion worth of contracts annually, in every market sector and across the globe. Since it’s modest roots in London, Ontario EllisDon has grown from being a general contractor to a multi-faceted Cradle-To-Grave company that can deliver any aspect of a project with guaranteed performance outcomes.
EllisDon’s culture is a reflection of its core values and principles: freedom, trust, complete openness, mutual accountability, entrepreneurial enthusiasm, integrity and mutual respect. These values drive the company to expand beyond the boundary of what it means to be a construction company.
Infrastructure Ontario
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) is a Crown agency of the Province of Ontario that supports the Ontario government’s initiatives to modernize and maximize the value of public infrastructure and real estate. IO upholds the government’s commitment to renew public services and does so in cooperation with the private sector.
IO includes four lines of business that deliver results directly to its clients: Major Projects; Real Estate Services; Infrastructure Lending; and Commercial Projects. All IO business lines have a track record of building successful relationships with the private sector to benefit Ontarians across the province. IO focuses upon due diligence, accountability, and transparency to ensure that it delivers real value to the Province with every transaction and project that it undertakes.
Hammer Heads
Hammer Heads was created by the Central Ontario Building Trades (COBT) in 2009 to support at-risk youth aged 18 – 26 from under-resourced and under-represented communities to develop the skills they need to gain meaningful employment as a registered apprentice in the skilled construction trades. Incorporating intense Health & Safety training, mandatory academic upgrading, Green training and life skills, our hands-on program exposes youth to a variety of construction trades, ensuring they have the necessary social and professional skills to successfully obtain a rewarding full-time career in construction with a fair wage, benefits and pension.
As a registered charity, Hammer Heads enjoys the unconditional support of the COBT and their 25 affiliates and is committed to enhancing the employment and economic potential of our youth, their families and the community by bridging the gap between under-resourced youth and unionized construction apprenticeships. We are very proud of the success we have achieved and that success would not be possible without the support of our COBT affiliates and key industry partners.
The Toronto Community
Benefits Network
The Toronto Community Benefits Network (TCBN) is a network of labour unions, trades training centres, community organizations, agencies and social enterprises formed to bring the community benefits approach to large scale development projects in Toronto.
TCBN helps pre-apprentices, apprentices and professionals to build their careers in the construction industry. In partnership with their network of service providers, they offer a job finding club, apprenticeship preparation, professional development, mentoring and coaching. Programs are offered in person and online. They provide financial supports to eligible participants - women and youth from newcomer, racialized and Indigenous communities — who experience barriers to access employment in the industry.
United Way
United Way is a worldwide not-for-profit organization working locally across communities to raise funds and invest in improving the lives of people. The United Way Greater Toronto is the largest non-governmental supporter of social services in the region that is dedicated to creating opportunities, providing financial resources, and finding meaningful employment.
Community Benefits signal a new era of collaboration, as United Way invests in programming for demand-driven skills training and supports, and in employment social enterprises that can supply ancillary products and services, while at the same time bringing the goals of government, labour, not-for-profits and business, closer together.
West Park Healthcare Centre
Founded as a tuberculosis sanitarium in 1904, West Park Healthcare Centre helps patients get their lives back by providing specialized rehabilitative and complex care after a life‐altering illness or injury such as lung disease, amputation, stroke and other traumatic injuries.
Today, West Park is on the bold path to transform its 27-acre site into an integrated campus of care that will enable the hospital to meet Ontario’s future health care needs. To achieve this, West Park is building a new hospital facility that will incorporate the best and latest in architectural design, enabling technologies and stunning therapeutic landscapes. We are also embarking on an entrepreneurial initiative to extend our spectrum of services by creating a vibrant community with housing and related services for seniors and people with disabilities.