Elizabeth Fry Toronto

02/27/2026

The Just In Time Program combines safety, compassion, and financial literacy to support long-term stability. It creates space to learn, ask questions, and rebuild confidence without pressure.

Support that meets you where you are.

✉️ justintime@efrytoronto.org
📞 416-924-3708 ext. 231



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02/26/2026

Black women entrepreneurs continue to face barriers to funding and business support in Canada. WEB creates accessible pathways into entrepreneurship — with flexible learning, peer support, and real-world tools.

📞 416- 924-3708 ext. 226
📩 web@efrytoronto.org



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02/25/2026

TOMORROW!

There is still time to register--email mumasuthan@efrytoronto.org

Confused about which social media platforms will work best for your business in Canada? In this hands-on workshop, you'll create a practical posting schedule, develop engaging content ideas, and learn how to build an authentic online presence that connects with Canadian audiences.

🫵Free for interested entrepreneurs, WEB alumni & current WEB program participants
📅Thursday February 26th from
🕐1-3PM
💻Virtual
📩RSVP to mumasuthan@efrytoronto.org

Hafsa Taher is a seasoned entrepreneur, business coach and founder of two successful Canadian businesses, including Hafsa Creates Gifts, which sold handmade products globally. As an active instructor for Toronto Public Library's Newcomer Entrepreneurship Programs and Head Coach for Hafsa Taher Coaching, she has guided over 200 entrepreneurs to transform their business ideas into reality and grew her social media presence to 56,000 organic engaged followers.
Drawing from her own immigrant experience and a decade of business acumen, Hafsa's coaching approach helps women overcome cultural barriers, develop effective marketing strategies and build resilient businesses that thrive in the Canadian marketplace.

02/25/2026

Racialized communities, including Black Canadians, continue to experience disproportionate contact with the justice system. Our Record Suspension Program helps remove financial and informational barriers so more people can move forward with clarity and dignity.

📩 recordsuspensions@efrytoronto.org
📞 416- 924-3708 ext. 400



Graphic statistic, Office of the Correctional Investigator, 2023

02/25/2026

Join us this Black History month as we celebrate Black Women and non-binary leaders who have shaped abolitionist thought by challenging punishment-based systems and offering frameworks grounded in care, accountability, and collective safety.

Get Gimore's book "Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation" at your local Toronto bookstore here: https://www.adifferentbooklist.com/item/q4758Zu8TXAg0wT4co7T8A

You can also check out "Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California" where Gilmore argues that defeats of radical struggles, weakening of labor, and shifting patterns of capital investment have been key conditions for prison growth:
https://www.adifferentbooklist.com/item/BeeVF474NkrO0C-CI5NFYA

Alt Text: Gilmore has been a leading voice in exposing how economic and racial forces drive mass incarceration. Gilmore has co-founded many grassroots organizations including Critical Resistance, which advocates for abolishing prisons and encourages community-based solutions. Gilmores most recent 2022 book “Abolition Geography, Essays Toward Liberation” draws from the lessons of grassroots organizers. “Abolition Geography undoes the identification of abolition with mere decarceration, and reminds us that freedom is not a mere principle but a place.”

02/24/2026

02/24/2026

Join us this Black History month as we celebrate Black Women and non-binary leaders who have shaped abolitionist thought by challenging punishment-based systems and offering frameworks grounded in care, accountability, and collective safety.

Get Roberts' book "Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World" at your local Toronto Bookstore here:
https://www.adifferentbooklist.com/item/lqczeCEl_PAOun3HsnDJgQ

You can also pre-order her upcoming memoir "The Mixed Marriage Project
A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family" here:
https://www.adifferentbooklist.com/item/gQpiPqSJBXilBQGWK6bYbA

Alt Text: Roberts work focuses on the ways systemic racism impacts Black women and families, especially through the child welfare and criminal legal systems. Roberts work challenges punitive state interventions and calls for transformative approaches that center community-based care, abolition, and racial justice. Roberts most recent 2022 book “Torn Apart” is about how the child welfare system destroys Black families. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and placed in foster care, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment. Drawing on decades of research Roberts discusses how abolition can build a safer world.

02/23/2026

Confused about which social media platforms will work best for your business in Canada? In this hands-on workshop, you'll create a practical posting schedule, develop engaging content ideas, and learn how to build an authentic online presence that connects with Canadian audiences.

🫵Free for interested entrepreneurs, WEB alumni & current WEB program participants
📅Thursday February 26th from
🕐1-3PM
💻Virtual
📩RSVP to mumasuthan@efrytoronto.org

Hafsa Taher is a seasoned entrepreneur, business coach and founder of two successful Canadian businesses, including Hafsa Creates Gifts, which sold handmade products globally. As an active instructor for Toronto Public Library's Newcomer Entrepreneurship Programs and Head Coach for Hafsa Taher Coaching, she has guided over 200 entrepreneurs to transform their business ideas into reality and grew her social media presence to 56,000 organic engaged followers.
Drawing from her own immigrant experience and a decade of business acumen, Hafsa's coaching approach helps women overcome cultural barriers, develop effective marketing strategies and build resilient businesses that thrive in the Canadian marketplace.

02/20/2026

Criminalization concentrates inequality.
Incarceration fractures communities, and deepens injustice.

Real justice is built by investing in people.
On this World Day of Social Justice, let’s demand systems rooted in dignity and care, not punishment.

02/19/2026

Join us this Black History month as we celebrate Black Women and non-binary leaders who have shaped abolitionist thought by challenging punishment-based systems and offering frameworks grounded in care, accountability, and collective safety.

Get Cullors' book "An Abolitionists Handbook" at your local Toronto bookstore:
https://www.adifferentbooklist.com/item/mvAe9UD8MdqFk5BDlXdEYw

Alt Text: Cullors is a visual and performing artist dedicated to leveraging the power of art and community organizing to catalyze social change. Cullors was the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, founder of The Center For Art and Abolition, and helped build and lead abolitionist movements with Justice LA, Dignity and Power Now and Reform LA jails. Cullors 2022 book “An Abolitionist’s Handbook,” charts a framework for how everyday artists, activists, and organizers can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future, and reimagines what reparations look like for Black lives.

02/18/2026

Safety, compassion, and practical support can make all the difference.

Through the Just In Time Program, women and non-binary individuals are supported with financial tools and guidance that help build confidence, independence, and long-term stability.

Register now or share this program with someone who could use the support.
📩 justintime@efrytoronto.org

02/17/2026

Elizabeth Fry Toronto is hiring a Residential Counsellor # 1 – Casual!

Support our mission of ensuring the women we serve in our residential facility have access to the supports and services needed for a successful reintegration into the community.
Please note that this is an in-person role, and requires working on weekends and overnights (awake).

Visit our website to learn more, and apply:
https://efrytoronto.org/student-placement-careers/