{"id":818084,"date":"2026-07-22T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818084\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:06:09","slug":"foresters-financial-members-build-200th-playground-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818084\/","title":{"rendered":"Foresters Financial members build 200th playground in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The comparison matters because the mechanisms are structurally different. Sun Life&#8217;s charitable donations to Canadian community organizations totalled $9.1 million in 2024, directed primarily at diabetes prevention and youth mental health, with total global corporate giving reaching $29.6 million in 2025, including $7.0 million committed to the fight against diabetes across its markets. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancebusinessmag.com\/ca\/companies\/manulife\/397982\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manulife<\/a>&#8216;s Canadian employees and agents contributed to charitable and non-profit organizations with colleagues donating $2 million matched through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancebusinessmag.com\/ca\/companies\/manulife\/397982\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manulife<\/a>&#8216;s matching programme in 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancebusinessmag.com\/ca\/companies\/intact\/169997\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Intact<\/a> Financial Corporation announced a $5 million donation over five years to CHU Sainte-Justine in November 2024 to support the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancebusinessmag.com\/ca\/companies\/intact\/169997\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Intact<\/a> Health Resilience Initiative &#8211; a major single-recipient commitment reflecting the company&#8217;s community investment approach. Each of these is a genuine and significant contribution. What they share is the structure of a publicly traded company allocating a portion of revenue to charitable purposes &#8211; a decision made at the board and executive level, directed toward causes the company selects, funded from shareholder capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The comparison matters because the mechanisms are structurally different. Sun Life&#8217;s charitable donations to Canadian community organizations totalled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,286813,48,286812,158150],"class_list":["post-818084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-playground","tag-canada","tag-foresters-financial","tag-kaboom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}