Item - 2021.TA13.9

The Board of Directors of the Toronto Atmospheric Fund:

1.  Approved the following grants to be funded jointly from the Canada, Ontario and Toronto endowments except where otherwise indicated:

 
a.  $92,399 over 15 months to Future Majority to mobilize youth climate activists, organize public events and other campaign elements to support the passage of a strong Green Development Standard in Mississauga (funded from the Canada and Ontario endowments only). 
 
b.  $130,712 over 20 months to Ryerson University to develop a methodology for calculating the embodied carbon of building enclosure assemblies for Part 3 buildings and to create guidelines and reference tools to support design teams in meeting embodied carbon targets in municipal development standards.

 
2.  Declined six grant requests with a total value of $822,603, as set out in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (June 24, 2021) from the Grants Manager, Toronto Atmospheric Fund.
 
3.  Approved the following project allocation to be funded jointly from the Canada, Ontario and City of Toronto endowments:

a.  $100,000 over 12 months to Toronto Atmospheric Fund (TAF)’s Retrofit Accelerator team to support Toronto Community Housing in implementing their building portfolio decarbonization program. Funding will enable TAF to develop a deep retrofit planning tool, create an aggregated procurement strategy, and to pilot the use of artificial intelligence to optimize building performance.

 
4.  Directed that the confidential information contained in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (June 24, 2021) from the Grants Manager, Toronto Atmospheric Fund remain confidential in its entirety, as it contains financial information supplied in confidence to the Toronto Atmospheric Fund, which, if disclosed, could reasonably be expected to prejudice significantly the competitive position or interfere significantly with the contractual or other negotiations of a person, group of persons, or organization.

At its June 18, 2021 meeting, the Toronto Atmospheric Fund Grants and Programs Committee recommended that the Board approve two grants with a combined value of $223,111 and one internal program allocation with a total value of $100,000. This report provides recommendations and minutes from the Committee meeting.