HISTORY & MANDATE

The Cawthra Mulock Foundation was incorporated under Province of Ontario Letters Patent on October 6, 1964, to offer funding for “religious, charitable or educational purposes within Canada.” The original objectives were deliberately open to allow for maximum flexibility.

Founded by Cawthra and Julyan Mulock, the Foundation was originally conceived specifically to provide support for a Camphill Village, a community for adults with developmental disabilities, in Ontario when the time was right for such. The Toronto Waldorf School was established first, however, and so became the earliest beneficiary of the Foundation.

Much later, a Camphill Village was founded as well as other Waldorf schools in Ontario, many of which the Foundation has been able to support. Over the years the Foundation has received limited additional funds but it remains a small and specialized entity. In order to narrow the applications, and in spite of the very wide original mandate, the members of the board determined that applications would be accepted only from Ontario-based organizations and that these organizations would be educational or curative in nature and based on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner.