Major Gift News

Eric and Vizma Sprott have committed to matching $3 million in donations to CAN Fund, a non profit that supports professional athletes representing Canada by providing financial aid. This gift marks the largest personal donation to Canadian athletes.

To create a new centre for pancreatic cancer. The centre will help improve patient care, diagnosis and treatment options for the condition. The Baker Centre for Pancreatic Cancer Rick Baker was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer three and a half years ago, and sought a greater variety of treatment options abroad than he could find at home.

To fund the Enbridge Plaza, which will be the connection hub for all of Youth Campus’ facilities and programs and will provide an all-season community space that was designed to host a multitude of musical world-class events and festivals. Enbridge Plaza

To help make improvements to the park

To fund the development of a new Dementia Care Home.

The two-year investment will benefit international students in the form of new scholarships and a bursary fund, and seed funding for unique entrepreneurship and applied research initiatives. The funding will also help more domestic students study and work abroad.

To fund the new Ibn Sina Simulation Lab. The donors chose to name the lab for Ibn Sina, a Muslim Physician, Astronomist and Philosopher, who was a father of early modern medicine. The gift was made by a group of Muslim physicians: Asiru Abu-Bakare; Syed Zaki Ahmed; Iftikhar Haq; Ayman Hassan; Hassan Hassan; Mohammed Ibrahim; Yasser Labib; Elrasheed Osman; Walid Shahrour; Raga Sirror; abd Jehan Zain.

In honor of the School of Disibility Studies’ 20th anniversary, this gift will help create the Tanis Doe Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Gender, Disability and Social Justice. The fellowship recognizes Tanis Doe – who taught at Ryerson and who, as a Métis deaf woman with other disabilities, was a Fulbright Scholar and active in disability, queer and feminist movements internationally. Fran Odette served on Ryerson’s disability studies advisory council from year one, and is a former president of the Canadian Disability Studies Association.

To support Bow Valley College’s 150 Startups initiative, a community-based entrepreneurship initiative designed to increase the number of first-time entrepreneurs from Alberta’s post-secondary institutions.

This gift will help fund the centre’s $4 million project to make its facility more accessible for the disabled and improve its stage areas. Kay Meek Arts Society worked collaboratively with the Rick Hansen Foundation to plan accessibility features.

The money was raised at the 18th Annual Cowan Charity Classic golf tournament and will support the development of an online resource for CMHO designed to make it easier for children, youth and families to find local mental health services and resources.

To support the Winter Warming Bus at Boyle Street Community Services. This gift will be distributed over three years. Turner is a former MLA for Edmonton-Whitemud.

Funds were raised through the Par 3 Charity Golf Tournament held Thursday, July 18 at the Kenora Golf and Country Club.

The couple have named NorQuest as the beneficiary of a life insurance policy representing an unspecified seven-figure dollar amount. This is the largest planned gift ever committed to the college. The donors asked that the amount not be disclosed.