Major Gift News

To help build the new hospice. Gift will be designated as the Cook Family Residence

To support the development of Canada’s Diversity Gardens and the Imagine a Place Campaign. Gift will be designated as the McCoshen Event Hall The donation was announced at the annual Garden Party fundraising event held in the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden.

Chapple did not specify how the funds should be used. The gift was made in honour of Len Chapple’s late wife, Dallas, who sat on the Symphony’s board. This is the largest private gift to the organization to date.

As part of a lease agreement with Newad, more than $1 million will be invested in the 100 million ideas campaign; nearly all revenue generated by this agreement will be paid to the UQAM Foundation to fund scholarships. Newad will become the exclusive provider of promotional signage on campus, and will offer four paid annual internships. Newad will become the exclusive provider of promotional signage on campus, and will offer four paid annual internships.

To support individuals who have been affected by wildfires in British Columbia. The donation was made through Unifor’s Social Justice Fund, the Canadian Community Fund and Regional Councils.

For new laboratories and classrooms. Gift will be designated as The Sherman Jen Building. This $7 million appears to be an increase on a $5 million gift from Jen announced in 2017.

To establish a new Centre for Off-site Construction and to fund research led by a new Chair in Off-site Construction. Gift will be designated as the OSCO Chair in Off-site Construction.

To develop recreational trails in the community. Mike Schout donated $500,000 in September 2018 and will donate the remainder in 2019.

To help fund the construction of the facility, furniture, fixtures, medical equipment and two years of operating expenses.

To support four projects in the arts. $645,000 will go to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre to create a touring exhibit, fund the Isabel and Alfred Bader Lecture in European Art, and increase the Centre’s online presence and digitize the collection; $200,000 will support the Department of Art History and Art Conservation and purchase a digitally assisted 3-D microscope and an electromagnetic image scanner; $70,000 will be used to re-launch the Castle Concert Series, create free masterclasses and lecture-recitals for students, and pay for off-campus cultural events; $150,000 will fund an Indigenous arts festival and exhibition. Gift will be designated as the Isabel and Alfred Bader Lecture in European Art.

For a new recreation centre as a part of the Together capital campaign. Keizer is owner of Smithville Home Hardware Building Centre.

This legacy gift from late Board chair Jalynn Bennett came with encouragement for Trent to use it to do something “bold, audacious and effective”. It will be used to fund projects that will enhance Trent’s natural setting, advance academic excellence, increase engagement with the local and First Nations communities, and enrich the student experience. This is one of the largest legacy gifts in the institution’s history.

To help expand the cardiac wing. Harrison told a local paper he he made the decision to donate this amount after he realized that his income tax returns weren’t reflecting how charitable he felt he should be.

To help expand the cardiac wing by funding necessary medical equipment.

To create more opportunities for agriculture science students by expanding and modernizing the college farm.

To support the mentorship program at the Haskayne School of Business. $250,000 of the gift will go towards MBA scholarships. Gift will be designated as the BMO Mentorship Program at the Haskayne School of Business.

For the Women in Sports initiative, which aims to advance the role of women as athletes, coaches and decision-makers by increasing the number of full-time female coaches and helping female athletes become future leaders. Gift will be designated as the Kerr Family Women in Sports program. Sheryl and David Kerr are McGill University alumni.

To support We Day initiatives in the local community as well as Hockey Helps Kids, an organization which aims to strengthen the relationship between the Oilers and the community. Leon Draisaitl from the Edmonton Oilers hockey team will donate $150,000 per year for the next eight years as part of a commitment to give back to his community. The donation will be matched at 50% by the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation, totalling $1.8 million over the next eight years.

For the faculty of engineering. The gift will fund graduate and undergraduate scholarships, bolster next-generation research on smart cities, and will support three new research chairs. Gift will be designated as the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science. This gift represents the largest personal donation in Concordia’s history, and the first engineering faculty in Canada named after a woman. Gina Cody was the first woman ever to be awarded a PhD in building engineering at Concordia, in 1989.

To support ovarian cancer research. The gift will go towards a research fund now in place at the B.C. Cancer Agency’s Deeley Research Centre in Victoria. Gift will be designated as the Carol Lalonde/Marlene Palmer Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. The gift was made in honour of two friends fighting ovarian cancer. Pitts made the donation after receiving an inheritance from an aunt.

To support JoeAnna’s House.

For the library’s expansion project. The anonymous donor will match donations up to $100,000 to support the project.

To support research programs, fellowships, innovative research, a lecture series and outreach efforts in McGill University’s Faculty of Science and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Gift will be designated as the Wares Science Innovation Prospectors Fund; Wares Field Study Fund; Wares Postdoctoral Fellowships. Bob Wares is a McGill alumnus who discovered one of Canada’s largest gold deposits in the Abitibi region of Quebec.

For an endowment that will support post-secondary opportunities for Métis students. This is one of four partnerships totalling $1.92 million announced by the donor in September 2018.

For an endowment that will support post-secondary opportunities for Métis students. This is one of four partnerships totalling $1.92 million announced by the donor in September 2018. Medicine Hat College contributed $30,000 to the total.

For an endowment that will support post-secondary opportunities for Métis students. This is one of four partnerships totalling $1.92 million announced by the donor in September 2018. Métis Nation of Alberta, Rupertsland Institute and the Métis Education Foundation will contribute $250,000, and Concordia University of Edmonton will provide an in-kind contribution totalling $250,000 over the next 10 years.