[7]: 80  She went on to study at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Household Science and the Methodist Training School, before spending a year at Teachers College in New York.

[7]: 80  She also met Tokyo Y employee Catherine Macdonald, who assured Kaufman, who wanted to stay in the country on a more permanent basis, that there would be work available for her within the organization.

[7]: 80  After a brief time at back in Canada, Kaufman returned to Japan in 1911, spending the next 27 years helping to push the status of Japanese women forward through social and religious education.

[7] The Second World War prompted Kaufman to resign from her work at the Tokyo Y resulting in the donation of her home in the city and two cottages at Karuizawa Lake to the organization.

[7]: 81  Back in Canada she involved herself in the plight of Japanese-Canadians, many of whom were taken from their West Coast homes during the war and transported to camps on the prairies and in Ontario.

[2] She also worked to support other people displaced by the way, including Gregory Baum, a Jewish-born Christian refugee interned as a German and later shipped to Canada, whom she sponsored so that he could attend university.

[7]: 87  Kaufman remained an executive committee member of the YWCA after her work in Japan and spent the rest of her life in Toronto, Ontario.