Definity Financial
Volunteers and Foundation grants for families starting over.
Grants from the Foundation, time in the Workshop
Definity has supported Furniture Bank since 2022: the Definity Insurance Foundation with grants, and Definity employees with their time in our Workshop.
Definity gives its employees paid time off and grants to volunteer in their communities, on their own or as a team. In 2025, its employees logged 5,000 volunteer hours.
The Definity Insurance Foundation, which began with $100 million from the demutualization of Economical Mutual, made grants to Furniture Bank in 2022 and 2024.
In September 2023, three Definity employees spent a day in our Workshop. In aprons and gloves, with mallets and drills, they built and refurbished wooden cabinets, chairs and shelving, and made 21 pieces of furniture home-ready for six families.
Everything Definity volunteers finish goes to the families we serve: newcomers and refugees, people leaving homelessness, and women and children starting over after a shelter stay. A social service agency refers each family to us, and our team helps them choose what their household needs from our showroom.
Three people can get a lot done in a day in our Workshop. Many of the families we serve move into a new home with nothing to sit on, eat at or sleep on, and every piece those volunteers finished is one less thing a family went without. Thank you to the Definity Insurance Foundation for its support, and to every Definity volunteer who has spent a day with us.
Definity in our Workshop
September 2023: building and refurbishing furniture in our Workshop.
Ways your company can partner with us
There is a family in Toronto sleeping on the floor tonight
Bring your team in for a Workshop day like Definity’s, or donate the furniture your business no longer needs. Either way, you help us turn empty housing into furnished homes.
