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The George Brown College Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Chris Campbell to its Board of Directors at the Annual General Meeting on September 29, 2022. Chris is Vice President, Toronto Carpenters' Union Local 27 and the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Representative...

George Brown College and Wealthsimple celebrated our ongoing partnership with an event at the company’s head office and the announcement of a $20,000 gift that will fund a new student award. Wealthsimple and the Wealthsimple Foundation as a community partner currently hosts GBC students for work...

New financial awards are now available to Indigenous students at George Brown College thanks to a generous donation from the Janes family. These awards include entrance scholarships, bursaries to help cover emergency costs and funding to support students’ visits to their home communities. Karen and...

We’re excited to announce that Chef Raquel Fox, a graduate of George Brown’s Centre for Hospitality & Culinary Arts (CHCA), is one of the recipients of the Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards. The award program, running for over a decade, recognizes immigrants to Canada who have made a positive impact...

With construction well underway on our mass-timber building, we invited special guests to tour the site of what will soon become an iconic landmark on Toronto’s waterfront. George Brown College President Dr. Gervan Fearon hosted a series of visits to the Limberlost Place construction site for the...

On June 29th, 2022, representatives from Building Opportunities for Life Today (BOLT), George Brown College, and the George Brown College Foundation, alongside students and alumni, gathered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the George Brown College-BOLT partnership. During the celebration, BOLT...

A $600,000 donation from The Daniels Corporation will fund a multi-purpose learning space at George Brown College’s exciting new capital project Limberlost Place. The Waterfront Campus expansion project is currently under construction and is set to open in the summer of 2024.  The three-storey...

In April 2022 Turner Fleischer Architects Inc. renewed their partnership with the George Brown College Foundation. This partnership began 10 years ago and during this time Turner Fleisher Architects has been a major supporter of GBC architectural technology students through co-op and graduate hiring...

The pandemic forced many people to put plans on hold. That’s why Desjardins has partnered with George Brown College and will provide a two-year donation to help young people make their business and social innovation ideas a reality. The funding will support programs that help budding student...

In anticipation of International Women’s Day, the Centre for Construction & Engineering Technologies (CCET) has established a new scholarship to support female students studying full-time in construction, skilled trades or engineering programs at George Brown College. Starting in the 2021-2022...