What We Support
Our Scholarships and Fellowships
We have founded five scholarship and fellowship programs that invest holistically in the leadership potential of students from Canada and around the world.
We invest in world-class scholarship programs and support extracurricular opportunities that enable young people to discover, develop, and deepen their leadership potential.
We invest in pragmatic and scalable solutions to the climate crisis that benefit people and the planet.
We support evidence-based approaches to health and healthcare. Our current focus is on youth well-being and mental health.
Our Founders, John and Marcy McCall MacBain, grew up in Niagara Falls and Huron County, respectively. We support initiatives that help these communities thrive.
Latest News & Stories
Updates from the Foundation and its grantees
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Building a World-Class Student Leadership Academy at Dalhousie University
We are thrilled to support the growth of Dalhousie University’s Student Leadership Academy. Through a progressive, three-tiered approach, the Academy cultivates lifelong leadership skills, inspiring students from across disciplines to act, foster growth, and create positive change locally and globally. Through our partnership, Dalhousie will offer McCall MacBain-Dalhousie Leadership Academy…
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Boosting the Leadership of Student-Athletes in Quebec
Sport is a powerful avenue for cultivating leadership, but student-athletes often get limited opportunities to build on their skills beyond the field. Fondation Aléo has welcomed the first cohort of scholarship recipients into the newly launched Fondation Aléo x McCall MacBain Leadership Program. In addition to receiving $4,000 per year…
Montréal, Quebec: The first cohort of the Foundation Aleo X McCall MacBain Leadership Program. Photo: Bernard Brault, ALEO -
Expanding the Order of the White Rose Scholarships to Support the Next Generation of Women in Engineering
The McCall MacBain Foundation is honoured to join the Circle of Benefactors to grow the Order of the White Rose Scholarships at Polytechnique Montreal. The Scholarships support talented women in pursuing graduate studies in engineering and honour the 14 women whose lives were cut short by the devastating shooting on…
From left to right: Valérie Bélisle, Po 2004, Director of Philanthropy and Relations with the Alumni Community at Polytechnique Montréal; Jacqueline Wallace, Director of Communications, External and International Relations at Polytechnique Montréal; Maud Cohen, Po 96, Director General of Polytechnique Montréal; Makenna Kuzyk , 10th Annual Order of the White Rose Laureate ; Alexandra Conliffe, President and CEO of the McCall MacBain Foundation ; Franca Gucciardi , Interim Chief Operating Officer of CIFAR and Immediate Past President and CEO of the McCall MacBain Foundation.