Major Gift News
Anonymous
Gift:
$22,000,000
Recipient:
Yarmouth Hospital Foundation
City:
Yarmouth
Province:
Nova Scotia
For a Health Care Enhancement Endowment. 85% of annual interest earned will be directed towards equipment, special projects and program enhancements at the Yarmouth Regional Hospital. Up to 15% may be directed to programs and services outside of the hospital. This is believed to be the single largest gift received by any healthcare foundation in Atlantic Canada.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$10,000,000
Recipient:
SickKids Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To build a new mental health in-patient unit. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Teck Resources Limited
Gift:
$10,000,000
Recipient:
St. Paul's Hospital Foundation
City:
Vancouver
Province:
British Columbia
To help build the emergency department at the new St. Paul’s Hospital at the Jim Pattison Medical Centre. Teck Emergency Department.
MAR 2021
National Bank
Gift:
$6,250,000
Recipient:
Black Opportunity Fund
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
The gift includes a $1.25 million donation and $5 million investment fund to support Black entrepreneurs.
MAR 2021
Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation
Gift:
$5,000,000
Recipient:
The Montreal Children's Hospital Foundation
City:
Montreal
Province:
Quebec
To support children and teens living with complex pain, including the creation of a new centre at the Hospital. $1.8 million will be placed in an endowment to sustain the centre. Edwards Family Interdisciplinary Centre for Pediatric Complex Pain. The gift was directed by Jane Edwards and Eric Hoguet.
MAR 2021
The Weston Foundation
Gift:
$5,000,000
Recipient:
Ducks Unlimited Canada
City:
Stonewall
Province:
Manitoba
The Foundation granted a total of $25 million to be shared by five conservation and agricultural organizations that will work with local communities over a five-year span to develop and implement ecologically and economically sustainable solutions for grasslands.
MAR 2021
The Weston Foundation
Gift:
$5,000,000
Recipient:
Grasslands National Park
City:
Val Marie
Province:
Saskatchewan
The Foundation granted a total of $25 million to be shared by five conservation and agricultural organizations that will work with local communities over a five-year span to develop and implement ecologically and economically sustainable solutions for grasslands.
MAR 2021
The Weston Foundation
Gift:
$5,000,000
Recipient:
Meewasin Valley Authority
City:
Saskatoon
Province:
Saskatchewan
The Foundation granted a total of $25 million to be shared by five conservation and agricultural organizations that will work with local communities over a five-year span to develop and implement ecologically and economically sustainable solutions for grasslands.
MAR 2021
The Weston Foundation
Gift:
$5,000,000
Recipient:
Nature Conservancy of Canada
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
The Foundation granted a total of $25 million to be shared by five conservation and agricultural organizations that will work with local communities over a five-year span to develop and implement ecologically and economically sustainable solutions for grasslands.
MAR 2021
The Weston Foundation
Gift:
$5,000,000
Recipient:
Saskatchewan Stock Growers Foundation
City:
Saskatoon
Province:
Saskatchewan
The Foundation granted a total of $25 million to be shared by five conservation and agricultural organizations that will work with local communities over a five-year span to develop and implement ecologically and economically sustainable solutions for grasslands.
MAR 2021
Lalji Family
Gift:
$3,000,000
Recipient:
BC Children's Hospital Foundation
City:
Vancouver
Province:
British Columbia
For the redevelopment of the Sunny Hill Health Centre, a paediatric developmental care and rehabilitation centre. The exact value of the gift was not disclosed but was listed at the $3 million+ level.
MAR 2021
Physicians at St. Paul's Hospital
Gift:
$2,550,000
Recipient:
St. Paul's Hospital Foundation
City:
Vancouver
Province:
British Columbia
Toward the new hospital under construction in East Vancouver. The gift includes $1 million from 14 radiologists (made in 2019); $1.25 million from 50 anesthesiologists; and $300,000 from 13 heart surgeons.
MAR 2021
BMO
Gift:
$2,500,000
Recipient:
Concordia University
City:
Montreal
Province:
Quebec
For a new centre that will help develop future finance professionals within the John Molson School of Business; to support internships for undergraduate students in the Faculty of Fine Arts. L. Jacques Ménard–BMO Centre for Capital Markets; BMO Fine Arts Internship Program. The late L. Jacques Ménard was chancellor of Concordia from 2011 to 2014, and was also president emeritus of BMO Financial Group, Quebec.
MAR 2021
Inspirit Foundation
Gift:
$2,500,000
Recipient:
Foundation for Black Communities
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
For an endowment to help ensure a sustainable base of support for Black-led and Black-serving organizations.
MAR 2021
Save Max Group of Companies
Gift:
$2,500,000
Recipient:
Trillium Health Partners Foundation
City:
Mississauga
Province:
Ontario
For the redevelopment and expansion of the Mississauga Hospital and to provide essentials to help ensure the best possible start for babies born at all Trillium Health Partners hospital sites. Save Max Group of Companies will also provide gift baskets to all new parents of infants born at a Trillium Health Partners site.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$2,500,000
Recipient:
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To create a 25-bed unit for youth aged 16 to 25 years in the hospital’s new complex care and recovery building. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Perry Dellelce
Gift:
$2,000,000
Recipient:
Canadian Olympic Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To support Canadian athletes at the upcoming games in Tokyo. The donation will support Canadian athletes in their training and help fund coaches, as well as the medical teams that work with athletes. Dellelce is chair of the board of the Canadian Olympic Foundation.
MAR 2021
Crescent Point Energy
Gift:
$1,500,000
Recipient:
STARS Air Ambulance
City:
Province:
Alberta
To support the mission of the organization. The gift was announced at an online Gala and renews a partnership between the two organizations that started 10 years ago.
MAR 2021
Mike Stork
Gift:
$1,500,000
Recipient:
University of Waterloo
City:
Waterloo
Province:
Ontario
For the Innovation Arena, the future home of Velocity (the University’s entrepreneurship program) in downtown Kitchener. The gift supports a $35 million redevelopment project in which the City of Kitchener has also donated $8.5 million to.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,500,000
Recipient:
Kids Help Phone
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To create a national e-mental health service for Black youth, in partnership with Black-led organizations. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Laidlaw Foundation
Gift:
$1,350,000
Recipient:
Foundation for Black Communities
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To help ensure a sustainable base of support for Black-led and Black-serving organizations. $350,000 is in the form of an immediate unrestricted grant and $1 million will go towards the endowment.
MAR 2021
Cargill and McDonald's Canada
Gift:
$1,250,000
Recipient:
Ducks Unlimited Canada
City:
Stonewall
Province:
Manitoba
For the Forage Program, which aims to help return 125,000 acres of cropland to grass and pasture by 2025. Ducks Unlimited Canada is investing $3.75 million to the initiative through matching programs.
MAR 2021
Scotiabank
Gift:
$1,250,000
Recipient:
Queen's University
City:
Kingston
Province:
Ontario
For the Institute of Sustainable Finance, a multi-stakeholder collaboration hub at the Smith School of Business.
MAR 2021
RBC Foundation
Gift:
$1,200,000
Recipient:
York University
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To directly support the work of Professor Carl James, currently Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora. The donation will create and build on James’ education initiatives for Black youth in priority areas including student success, pathways to education, and support for Black scholars.
MAR 2021
Kelly Jennings
Gift:
$1,030,000
Recipient:
Giving HOPE
City:
New Orleans
Province:
Louisiana
To help build HOPE House orphanages. Jennings, CEO of Ontario-based PowerBand Solutions Inc., donated 1 million company shares. At the end of day of the that the announcement was made, the company closed at $1.03 per share.
MAR 2021
Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
BC Children's Hospital Foundation
City:
Vancouver
Province:
British Columbia
For the redevelopment of the Sunny Hill Health Centre, a paediatric developmental care and rehabilitation centre. The exact value of the gift was not disclosed but was listed at the $1 million to $3 million level.
MAR 2021
Dr. Hilary and Patsy Hui
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
BC Children's Hospital Foundation
City:
Vancouver
Province:
British Columbia
For the redevelopment of the Sunny Hill Health Centre, a paediatric developmental care and rehabilitation centre. The exact value of the gift was not disclosed but was listed at the $1 million to $3 million level.
MAR 2021
J.T. Clark Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Saint John Regional Hospital Foundation
City:
Saint John
Province:
New Brunswick
For the Clinic 1 expansion capital campaign. The J.T. Clark Family Foundation Ambulatory Clinic. John Clark, founder of the Foundation, was inspired by the quality care he received at the ambulatory clinic. The gift marks the completion of the $12 million capital campaign.
MAR 2021
MLSE Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Foundation for Black Communities
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To provide grants to Black-led and Black-serving organizations. The gift will help the Foundation identify and support grassroots organizations that provide hyper local sports programming to Black youth.
MAR 2021
Moez and Marissa Kassam Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Michael Garron Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To support the hospital’s redevelopment and the creation of a grassroots initiatives fund to expand the hospital’s capacity for community programing and inclusive and accessible healthcare. Moez & Marissa Kassam Food Court.
MAR 2021
Peterson Family
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
BC Children's Hospital Foundation
City:
Vancouver
Province:
British Columbia
For the redevelopment of the Sunny Hill Health Centre, a paediatric developmental care and rehabilitation centre. The exact value of the gift was not disclosed but was listed at the $1 million to $3 million level.
MAR 2021
Peterson Group
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
St. Paul's Foundation
City:
Vancouver
Province:
British Columbia
To match gifts made for the new St. Paul’s Hospital at the Jim Pattison Medical Centre. The donation was announced at the Foundation’s virtual Scotiabank Feast for Fortune gala.
MAR 2021
Saskatchewan Municipal Hail Insurance
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
STARS Air Ambulance
City:
Province:
Saskatchewan
To support STARS’ bases in Regina and Saskatoon. The gift was announced during the virtual annual convention of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Children's Aid Foundation of Canada
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
For mental health expansions for youth in transition. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Egale Canada Human Rights Trust
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
For Queering Mental Health Supports in Canada. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilition Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
For new mental health supports for kids with disabilities and their families. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Indspire
City:
Ohsweken
Province:
Ontario
For increased access to mental health resources for Indigenous youth. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Jack.org
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
For scaling youth mental health digital education. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To support the expansion of the POGO school and work transitions program. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Pine River Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To support the Pine River Institute Centre for Family Initiatives. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Scarborough Health Network Foundation
City:
Scarborough
Province:
Ontario
For the substance use disorders program. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Sinai Health Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
For the substance use disorders program. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
SPRINT Senior Care
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To launch the Wellness on Wheels mobile program. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
St. Joseph’s Health Centre Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
For the Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation & Staff Wellness Program. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
St. Michael's Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
For the Mental Health Navigators, Community Healthcare Staff, and Staff Mental Health Wellness Program. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Sunnybrook Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
For the Family Navigation Project, a youth engagement strategy. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
University Health Network
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To integrate physical and mental health through the Mental Health in Medicine Clinic. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Women’s College Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
For the trauma therapy program and the Centre for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Workman Arts
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
For an expanded arts training program. This is one of 19 gifts totaling $30 million made by the Foundation to support mental health services across Canada.
MAR 2021
Teck Resources Limited
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
UNICEF Canada
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
In support of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, a global partnership dedicated to the equitable distribution of vaccines, treatment and testing for COVID-19.
MAR 2021
Thomas and Ann Blaauv and Family
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
BC Children's Hospital Foundation
City:
Vancouver
Province:
British Columbia
For the redevelopment of the Sunny Hill Health Centre, a paediatric developmental care and rehabilitation centre. The exact value of the gift was not disclosed but was listed at the $1 million to $3 million level.
MAR 2021
Fiona McKean and Tobi Lutke, Thistledown Foundation
Gift:
$750,000
Recipient:
United Way East Ontario, Ottawa Food Bank and Community Foundation of Ottawa
City:
Ottawa
Province:
Ontario
To support vulnerable members of the community through the COVID-19 pandemic.
MAR 2021
Scotiabank
Gift:
$700,000
Recipient:
Women's College Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To support the Women’s Virtual Program, a virtual hospital launched in 2019. The gift will be used to accelerate care capabilities and programs including virtual care services and virtual and video visits, and to create the Crossroads Compassionate Fund within the Crosslands Clinic (a clinic exclusively serving the needs of new refugees).
MAR 2021
TRU Students' Union
Gift:
$550,000
Recipient:
Thompson Rivers University
City:
Kamloops
Province:
British Columbia
To support at least 35 student bursaries each year. The TRU Society of Law Students also pledged $25,000.
MAR 2021
Dennis and Phyliss Washington (through the Dennis and Phyliss Washington Foundation)
Gift:
$300,000
Recipient:
CWB Welding Foundation
City:
Vancouver and Victoria
Province:
British Columbia
To enhance welding programs at Victoria and Vancouver area high schools. Over three years, the donation will be used to build awareness of the welding trade, enable welding skill development, and forge pathways to meaningful careers in welding across shipbuilding, manufacturing, energy and other evolving industries. $100,000 will support the welding shop at Royal Bay Secondary School in Victoria; the remaineding $200,000 will be invested in Vancouver area high schools.
MAR 2021
GFL Environmental Inc
Gift:
$300,000
Recipient:
Whister Health Care Foundation
City:
Whistler
Province:
British Columbia
For the trauma room upgrade campaign. This gift helped mark the conclusion of the Foundation’s $1.5 million campaign.
MAR 2021
Ann Blaauw
Gift:
$250,000
Recipient:
The BC Farm Museum
City:
Langley
Province:
British Columbia
Ann Blaauw and her late husband, Tom, had a number of farming operations in Langley for many years.
MAR 2021
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds
Gift:
$250,000
Recipient:
Influence Mentoring Society
City:
Calgary
Province:
Alberta
To help launch a Canadian mentorship program for Indigenous post-secondary students.
MAR 2021
Jeffery Homes
Gift:
$250,000
Recipient:
Durham Hospice Clarington
City:
Clarington
Province:
Ontario
To help build the new residential hospice in Clarington. 84% of construction costs have been raised to date.
MAR 2021
Ketza Construction
Gift:
$250,000
Recipient:
Yukon University
City:
Whitehorse
Province:
Yukon
Half of the donation will directly support carpentry programming and half will support other priorities related to student development and success. Ketza Construction Carpentry Shop.
MAR 2021
Schroeder Foundation
Gift:
$210,000
Recipient:
Winnipeg School Division
City:
Winnipeg
Province:
Manitoba
To restore a milk subsidy program cut from the School Division’s budget.
MAR 2021
Ocean Steel & Construction Limited and The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
Gift:
$160,000
Recipient:
CWB Welding Foundation
City:
Province:
New Brunswick
To help build a portable welding trailer to give high school students in New Brunswick experiential learning opportunities in the trades. The total cost to build the trailer was $240,000 and was shared between the Department of Early Childhood Development and Education, Ocean Steel & Construction Ltd., and Source Atlantic Ltd.
MAR 2021
Rio Tinto and Prince George Community Foundation
Gift:
$155,000
Recipient:
BC Cancer
City:
Prince George
Province:
British Columbia
To help support research and clinical trials in precision radiation therapy at BC Cancer – Prince George.
MAR 2021
Dianne Friesen and Family
Gift:
$150,000
Recipient:
Okanagan College
City:
Kelowna
Province:
British Columbia
For a new health sciences centre on the Kelowna campus. The gift will support the therapist assistant lab. Dianne Friesen is a former staff member at the College. Her son, Jason, who runs Voyager RV hires graduates from the College and also donated $30,000 towards a new trades complex.
MAR 2021
Pioneer Health Care
Gift:
$150,000
Recipient:
Belleville General Hospital Foundation
City:
Belleville
Province:
Ontario
For the Be Well campaign.
MAR 2021
Sisters of Saint Ann
Gift:
$150,000
Recipient:
Thompson Rivers University
City:
Kamloops
Province:
British Columbia
To support healthcare education. The gift will create a new endowment fund in the School which will support Indigenous nursing students. This will include mentoring, the Elder in the House program and other culturally appropriate projects. The donation will also go toward an award for practicum students who accept placements in First Nations, Inuit or Métis communities.
MAR 2021
Bruce Power
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
CWB Welding Foundation
City:
Province:
Ontario
This donation is a part of a $270,000 investment to enhance welding education for secondary school students, forge pathways to jobs in the welding trade, and develop the skilled welders required to fulfill Bruce Power’s future workforce needs.
MAR 2021
David Lahey
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
The gift will fund the Dr. Lillian Siu Research Fund, supporting immunotherapy and throat cancer discovery research. Lahey was treated for throat cancer at Princess Margaret, and credits Dr. Lillian Siu with saving his life.
MAR 2021
Dennis and Sheila McCullogh
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Belleville General Hospital Foundation
City:
Belleville
Province:
Ontario
The McCulloghs are the owners of the Belleville Canadian Tire. Both their son and daughter have received life-saving operations at the hospital.
MAR 2021
Kellogg Canada
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Food Banks Canada
City:
Mississauga
Province:
Ontario
To support Food Banks Canada’s $150 million COVID-19 Response Fund and affiliate food banks. Kellogg Canada will match donations made to Food Banks Canada from March 4 to March 7, up to $100,000.
MAR 2021
mobileLIVE
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Trillium Health Partners Foundation
City:
Mississauga
Province:
Ontario
The gift includes $35,000 for the future redevelopment and expansion of Mississauga Hospital and $75,000 worth of professional IT services over the next five years.
MAR 2021
Ontario Power Generation, Black & McDonald, Anonymous
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
CWB Welding Foundation
City:
Durham Region
Province:
Ontario
To enhance welding education at four Durham Catholic District School Board secondary schools, help students build skills to prepare them for good jobs in the welding trade, and develop the skilled welders required to fulfill Ontario Power Generation’s workforce needs. The donation was announced as a collaboration between The CWB Welding Foundation, Ontario Power Generation, Durham Catholic District School Board, UA Canada and Black & McDonald. Ontario Power Generation donated $65,000, Black & McDonald donated $10,000 and an anonymous donor provided $25,000.
MAR 2021
Polycon Industiries
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Foundation of Guelph General Hospital
City:
Guelph
Province:
Ontario
For the Together, We Care campaign to help fund the expansion of the Emergency Department and Special Care Nursery.
MAR 2021
The Schulich Foundation
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
OCAD University
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
For two annual awards recognizing the achievement of students in the Faculty of Design. Each award has a value of $10,000 and will be given to 10 students over the next 5 years. The Schulich Leader Award in Graphic Design and the Schulich Leader Award in Illustration
MAR 2021
Thomas Coughlan Realty
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Durham Region Hospice
City:
Whitby
Province:
Ontario
To help build the new Whitby residential hospice. This donation brings the $15 million campaign for the new hospice to over 75% of its goal.