Major Gift News

To establish the Novo Nordisk Network for Healthy Populations. The new network is a partnership between the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and University of Toronto Mississauga, and will focus on new ways to support healthier urban populations to impact the fight against diabetes and other chronic diseases. Novo Nordisk Network for Healthy Populations. The donations will be matched by the University of Toronto with a further $20 million in financial and in-kind contributions.

To support lung cancer research and care.

For a number of new projects and programs including: new entrance and upper-year scholarships; internship opportunities; and a dynamic artist-in-residence program, giving students direct access to notable Canadian and international artists as part of their studies. Paul Lassonde School of Fine Arts; Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Scholarship; Gibbens Lassonde Scholarships

To help build the new Tanya Lake Community Centre.

To provide funding to Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Colour (BIPOC) creators during the COVID-19 pandemic through the Solidarity Fund. This gift will also support a new pitch program which will provide 10 grants of $10,000 to BIPOC creators.

For social accountability initiatives. The gift will help address health inequity, advocacy for marginalized populations and access to care in Northern Ontario. Dr. Hugh Robertson practised in Cochrane and now works in the US (New Orleans, Louisiana). This is the largest private donation NOSM has ever received.

To increase community policing in and around the Downtown Eastside. The donation will be funneled into two separate streams with $100,000 each year earmarked to support community-based mental health and addiction issues, and another $100,000 annually going to five different community policing centres in and around the downtown core.

To create a new award that will provide funding to the McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity (MI4) to support its leadership as it drives MI4’s mission forward. The Legge Orr MI4 Leadership Award. Suzanne is Co-Chair of the MUHC Foundation’s $200 million Dream Big Campaign.

To help fund the building of the new animal care centre. Richards was a volunteer at the Peterborough Humane Society.

To help purchase property needed to expand the facility. This is the largest gift in the charity’s history.

To help build a multi-sport outdoor recreation area.

For equipment needs. This gift was part of Five Nations Energy’s two-year campaign to donate $1.7 million to first nations communities and healthcare providers in northern Ontario. The final gift of the campaign was made in February 2021. This gift was described as more than $500,000.

To establish a chair position at the School of Journalism. Leader-Post Foundation Chair. The Leader-Post Foundation is in the process of dissolving operations.

For a new multisport court in the community of Gordonridge. MLSE Foundation and Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities and working with the Toronto Housing Corporation to support the project. The contribution from MLSE and Jumpstart was described as more than $300,000.

To support the expansion and growth of Conestoga’s School of Creative Industries. Forster is a graduate of the college’s Broadcasting – Radio & Television program.

This gift was part of Five Nations Energy’s two-year campaign to donate $1.7 million to first nations communities and healthcare providers in northern Ontario. The final gift of the campaign was made in February 2021.

For a bursary fund. This gift was part of Five Nations Energy’s two-year campaign to donate $1.7 million to first nations communities and healthcare providers in northern Ontario. The final gift of the campaign was made in February 2021.

Over four years, to help develop the next generation of innovators. The gift, a part of RBC’s Future Launch program, will fund the RBC Community Innovation Bootcamp.

For the Youth Recovery House.

To help support a kitchen remodel, a new furnace system, bedroom and living room furniture, and backup generators at the addictions facility. This gift wraps up Five Nations Energy’s two-year campaign to donate $1.7 million to first nations communities and healthcare providers in northern Ontario.

For the foundation’s ongoing support of health, sports, arts, social service, education and environmental organizations, but also to address the immediate impacts of COVID-19 across northern B.C.

To help the local Dolly Parton’s imagination Library to mail free books each month to children in Brantford and Brant County. The funds will help double the number children the program serves.

For a molecular diagnostic lab at the University Hospital of Northern BC.

For the Youth Recovery House.

This gift was part of Five Nations Energy’s two-year campaign to donate $1.7 million to first nations communities and healthcare providers in northern Ontario. The final gift of the campaign was made in February 2021.

This gift was part of Five Nations Energy’s two-year campaign to donate $1.7 million to first nations communities and healthcare providers in northern Ontario. The final gift of the campaign was made in February 2021.

This gift was part of Five Nations Energy’s two-year campaign to donate $1.7 million to first nations communities and healthcare providers in northern Ontario. The final gift of the campaign was made in February 2021.

This gift was part of Five Nations Energy’s two-year campaign to donate $1.7 million to first nations communities and healthcare providers in northern Ontario. The final gift of the campaign was made in February 2021.

The gift was made in memory of Mary Jane Brinkos, one of the original “Ladies of the Lake”, a group of local volunteer residents committed to preserving and improving the health of Lake Simcoe.

To help build a multi-sport outdoor recreation area. Mike is the owner of Canadian Tire. Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities also made a $500,000 gift to the project.