Craig Wellington

Craig Wellington is the inaugural executive director of the Black Opportunity Fund, a dynamic partnership involving businesses, philanthropists, foundations, and the Black community, mandated to establish a pool of sustainable capital to fund Black led and serving organizations and businesses through grants, loans and investments. The BOF’s mission is to help combat the impact of systemic anti-Black racism in Canada by promoting social and economic empowerment. He has a history of working to address systemic bias in the Canadian criminal justice and education systems, is a member of the City of Mississauga Mayor’s Black Caucus, an advisory board member of the Black Community Action Network of the Region of Peel, as well as a former member of the Toronto Chief of Police’s Black Community Consultative Committee