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Participated in an effort to get 900+ children forced to work on the streets into regular schooling. This involved funding uniforms, school supplies and books, as well as various salaries.
Following the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, Silvercrest Foundation primarily funded the rebuilding and refurbishment of a community school (shown above).
Silvercrest Foundation has provided various scholarship programmes for vulnerable children (due to poverty and/or refugee status) in Asia and South America. In addition we provide higher education scholarships and awards in Canada.
Silvercrest has provided supplies, beds and various medical equipment for a clinic in rural Uganda focused on providing free medical care to children of families that otherwise could not afford this.
We supported the first-ever global research report on the manta ray gill trade. This has helped with the ongoing creation of legislative change and the creation of safe areas for these magnificent creatures.
Various projects in Canada involving conservation easements and land trusts to set aside fragile areas from encroaching development.
We believe in adopting an entrepreneurial approach and applying it to achieve our philanthropic goals.
This encompasses every aspect of our funding support — from grants through to venture-philanthropy investments in projects where we recognize the potential for social benefits and where money can be recycled over time.
We are willing to experiment, try new approaches, and focus on measurable results. We believe in capacity building, and we get deeply involved with the recipients of our grants.
• Caring
• Commitment
• Courage
• Excellence
• Humility
• Integrity
• Perseverance
…and we like to have fun!
“Silvercrest”, our family’s summer home in Canada, is named after the beautiful birches that surround the property. It is an idyllic natural environment of sparkling clean lakes, green forests and abundant fresh air. “Silvercrest” is our haven, a place where we find peace, our favorite spot on earth. We love to share its magic with one another, the members of our extended family and our friends.
“Silvercrest” has been there for many generations. It is a testimony to our commitment to our family, to nature and to its neighboring community.
We believe in adopting an entrepreneurial approach and applying it to achieve our philanthropic goals.
This encompasses every aspect of our funding support — from grants through to venture-philanthropy investments in projects where we recognize the potential for social benefits and where money can be recycled over time.
We are willing to experiment, try new approaches, and focus on measurable results. We believe in capacity building, and we get deeply involved with the recipients of our grants.
• Caring
• Commitment
• Courage
• Excellence
• Humility
• Integrity
• Perseverance
…and we like to have fun!
“Silvercrest”, our family’s summer home in Canada, is named after the beautiful birches that surround the property. It is an idyllic natural environment of sparkling clean lakes, green forests and abundant fresh air. “Silvercrest” is our haven, a place where we find peace, our favorite spot on earth. We love to share its magic with one another, the members of our extended family and our friends.
“Silvercrest” has been there for many generations. It is a testimony to our commitment to our family, to nature and to its neighboring community.
Caleb is a Canadian who spent most of his business life in Hong Kong, where he and a talented team built a leading global supply chain business. Caleb sold the business in 2005 and then established a family office, the Flowerdale Group, to manage and invest his assets.
Caleb is currently London based but travels frequently to work on the Flowerdale Group’s investments and with its operating businesses. He is an avid adventurer and loves exploring new places — from sampling street food in Tokyo, to climbing volcanoes in Patagonia. However, he feels most at home in Silvercrest, the lake house built by his grandfather in Muskoka, Canada, and the inspiration for the name of the Silvercrest Foundation.
Caleb is profoundly proud of his two sons, Caleb (the third, or “C3”), a lawyer, who recently joined the family office from a leading international law firm, and Luke, a practicing medical doctor, who is also deeply involved in the foundation.
Caleb and his late wife Jenya always felt immense gratitude and responsibility for the opportunities they were able to have in life, and established the Silvercrest Foundation in 2010 in order to give back. Caleb aims to apply the same standard of excellence to the management of the Foundation that has marked his businesses over the years.
Luke was born and raised in Hong Kong. He attended Brown University earning a degree in Biology, and later a graduate degree in Medicine from University College Dublin. He now practices medicine for the HSE in Ireland. Luke was present during the founding meetings for Silvercrest with his parents and had the privilege of participating in a number of philanthropic projects in Asia. Luke has a passion for medicine and global health, he aims to work in more resource-stricken areas of the world in efforts to minimise the impacts of economical, educational and health inequalities.
Jan-Eric was born and spent his formative years in Germany. He currently resides in Hong Kong where he has lived and worked most of his adult life.
He has been involved with Silvercrest from the very beginning: from the first meetings with the family in 2010 where the vision and strategy were born, to structuring the first foundation, to developing the funding approval process and helping vet and approve each Silvercrest project to date.
He is currently President of ThreeSixty Group (threesixty-group.com) a global Consumer Goods company with a portfolio of iconic brands which include FAO Schwarz, Sharper Image, and Vornado. Prior to joining ThreeSixty Group, in 2012, Jan-Eric was a Partner at Flowerdale Group which had been a private equity investor in ThreeSixty.
Before joining the Flowerdale Group, Jan-Eric was a Managing Director with Otto International, the Hong Kong-based global sourcing arm of the German Otto Group (ottogroup.com). Jan-Eric’s career started in in 2000 with consulting firm Oliver Wyman where he spent six years.
Jan-Eric holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering & management from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. In 1996, the German Foreign Office awarded him a full scholarship for the MBA program at the University of Illinois.
Jan-Eric and his wife Iris enjoy a fun and active family life with their two teenaged sons.
John graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Canada in 1983 and was called to the bar in Ontario and in Alberta in 1985. He practiced corporate/commercial law in Calgary, Alberta from 1985 – 1993.
In 1993 John took a break from the practice of law and for the next twenty years turned his attention to building and eventually selling several businesses. From 2014 to 2022 John consulted to the operating entities of the Flowerdale Group family office, drawing from his legal and entrepreneurial background to provide practical legal advice.
John previously served as an active member of two charitable boards, in addition to being a member of the Silvercrest Board since its inception.
He and his wife, Rhonda, have four adult daughters and live in Cambridge, Ontario.