Major Gift News

$1 million of the anonymous donation will go toward the Conservancy’s Opportunity Fund, which supports costs associated with land protection or land acquisition projects. The remaining funds will go toward the Property Management Fund, which supports land management and on going stewardship.

Donation is to the campaign to renovate Congregation Shaarey Zedek. $2 million is from the Asper Foundation, and $1 million from the Gail Asper Family Foundation.

Donation is to the Balsillie School of International Affairs to launch the Digital Governance Initiative, an initiative created to shape policy and increase productivity amid threats to Canada’s sovereignty and security.

Donation supports the Kincardine Hospital Redevelopment Capital Campaign, and will go toward the purchase of a new MRI machine.

Donation is to Okanagan College’s Thrive Here campaign and supports the atrium entrance in the new recreation and wellness centre.

Canso Investment Counsel and Lysander Funds are matching $1 million raised for the Juno Beach Centre Association’s capital campaign, and supports the creation of a Canadian D-Day Monument.

Donation will establish a cardiovascular institute on the campus of Vancouver General Hospital. $35 million will fund a new multi-use tower, and $25 million is for an innovation fund.

Donation is to the campaign for the purchase of a CT scanner.

Donation funds a research chair in immunotherapy.

Donation supports the Bringing Hearts Home campaign, which aims to transform cardiac care in Southern Alberta.

Donation will go toward building a new patient tower. The tower will include an expanded emergency room, a modern surgical centre, intensive care units, and over 300 private patient rooms. Two floors of the new tower will be dedicated to mental health care.

Donation supports the launch of the new UBC AI and Health Network, which brings researchers, clinicians, and health system partners together to apply Canadian-made AI solutions to challenges facing patients and health systems.

Donation funds the replacement of three ultrasound units in the Group Health Centre Diagnostic Imaging department.

Donation will help create Indigenous spaces at the new Joseph A. Remai Saskatoon campus.

Donation establishes a bursary for students entering preparatory programs.

Donation will fund several initiatives at St. Michael’s Hospital and Providence Healthcare which support Indigenous healing and reconciliation, including: the opening of a new Indigenous Wellness Centre; land-based healing spaces; creation of additional Indigenous wellness worker positions; an education and community engagement fund; expanded patient access to Elders, and Traditional Care Providers; introduction of an Indigenous Patient Comfort Fund; and development of quality assurance and improvement initiatives.

Unspecified donation supports the construction of a new Simcoe-Muskoka facility.

Donation supports the construction of an animal medicine facility at the Thunder Bay campus. The facility will be used for a collaborative doctor of veterinary medicine program, a joint venture between Lakehead University and the University of Guelph.

Donation is to the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute

Donation kick-starts the Community Health Research Fund, which aims to explore how lifestyle changes can help reduce the severity of some conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure.

Donation supports the new Centre for Health and Wellness.

$500,000 of the donation will help the College of Law develop an Indigenous land-based learning course; $125,000 will make the Robert Emes Award for Clinical Law a permanent, annual award; and $275,000 will support the McKercher Excellence in Legal Education Fund.

The collective donation from Vale Base Metals, Hudbay Minerals, and Alamos Gold supports emergency relief and rebuilding efforts in response to the wildfires in northern Manitoba.

Donation supports the campaign for a new Co-op Centre in Meadow Lake.

Donation supports the expansion of the Nanji Foundation Stroke Centre of Excellence at Birchmount Hospital.

Donation supports the new theatre within the JR Shaw Centre for Arts & Culture.

Donation is to the Campaign for Concordia: Next-Gen Now, and will enhance Art Volt, a platform designed to launch fine-arts alumni into thriving creative careers.

Donation is in the form of 61 artworks valued at $22.8 million.

As a part of the Rogers Charity Classic, Rogers Communications is donating $1 million to support children’s charities across Alberta.

Donation supports the expansion of RVH.

Donation is made in honour of the late Debra VandenBussche Sinnesael, toward the creation of a hospice in Norfolk County.

Donation will support technology and equipment for students within the Donald School of Business and the School of Arts and Education, as well as provide funding for programming in areas such as entrepreneurship, and to enhance student spaces and Red Deer Polytechnic facilities.

$3 million will go toward Destination Niagara Entrance Scholarships; $600,000 toward a planned expansion of Skilled Trades at the Welland Campus; and $400,000 toward the Don Patterson Legacy Fund.

Donation is to the Global Agriculture Technology Exchange (GATE) capital campaign.

Donation supports the Bridge to Home campaign, for an affordable, women-led housing apartment complex in Brantford.

Donation is to the Bringing Hearts Home campaign and will help improve access to urgent and preventative cardiac services.