Linking public institutions to communities key to tackling poverty, report says

By Sara Mojtehedzadeh. He’s a man with a vision, and Andrew Arifuzzaman’s latest ambition is to bring the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus out of the woods. Literally.
“UTSC has been here in the community for 50 years,” says its chief administrative officer. “But up to eight years ago, it was literally behind a forest.”
According to a report to be released Monday by the Atkinson Foundation and the Mowat Centre, bringing big public institutions closer to their communities could be one of Ontario’s best hopes of tackling poverty. More...