Progress Place

About Progress Place:

Founded in 1976, Progress Place provides psychosocial rehabilitation throughout the Canadian mental health network. It provides people with mental illness access to mental health services, including social, vocational, housing and recreational activities. Progress Place is a part of the International Center for Clubhouse Development and follows the Clubhouse Model of rehabilitation.  Progress Place works with over 700 members in Toronto.

Progress Place’s employment program provides its members with part-time and entry-level employment opportunities, and the support they need to stay on the job. The charity reports that its supported employment programs work with 200 members.

Progress Place’s supported education program offers peer tutoring in math, English and computers and mentoring. Its housing program offers 80 members supported housing, with access to meals and recreational programs.

Finally, Progress Place also offers community programs. The Warm Life program is a peer support telephone line that takes over 9,000 calls a year, offering people with mental illness an empathetic ear. Its Double Recovery program offers members struggling with alcohol or drug problems access to safe and anonymous support through its informal peer-based meetings.

Financial Review:

Progress Place is a small-cap charity with donations of $245k in F2015. Progress Place does not explicitly report its administrative costs or fundraising costs in its audited financial statements. The administrative costs reported in the charity’s T3010 filing makes up 12% of revenues. Progress Place does not report its fundraising expenses in its T3010 filing. The charity has funding reserves of $862k, resulting in a program cost coverage ratio of 27%. This means that the charity can cover 3 months of its annual programs using its existing reserves.

This charity report is an update that is being reviewed by Progress Place. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.

Updated on July 5, 2016 by Lynn Tay.