Major Gift News
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Paul Albrechsten Foundation
Gift:
$3,500,000
Recipient:
CancerCare Manitoba
City:
Winnipeg
Province:
MB
Donation supports the construction of a new cancer care centre as a part of an expansion to the Western Manitoba Cancer Centre.
March 2023
Anonymous
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Comox Air Force Museum Heritage Air Park
City:
Lazo
Province:
BC
An anonymous donor will match donations up to $100,000 toward the construction of a pavilion to display a De Havilland Vampire Mark III jet.
March 2023
Aune Family
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Golf Canada Foundation
City:
Oakville
Province:
ON
Donation is in USD and over four years for First Tee – Canada, and will enable the launch of First Tee – Prairies, which will provide accessible and inclusive youth development programming through golf across Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
March 2023
Cenovus Energy
Gift:
$650,000
Recipient:
Lakeland College
City:
Lakefield
Province:
ON
Donation will support programs designed to assist Indigenous students as they transition to post-secondary education, including program and curriculum development, as well as student orientation. The donation will also support financial aid and student emergency funding.
March 2023
Canadian National
Gift:
$750,000
Recipient:
Sun Youth
City:
Montreal
Province:
QC
Donation is to the Building Brighter Future campaign for the construction of a new community center.
March 2023
U13A Cornwall Typhoons
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Beyond 21
City:
Cornwall
Province:
ON
The U13A Cornwall Typhoons hockey team won the Chevrolet Good Deeds Cup and are donating the grand prize money to Beyond 21.
March 2023
16 developers
Gift:
$2,000,000
Recipient:
Durham Region Hospice
City:
Whitby
Province:
ON
A group of 16 developers raised $2 million toward the construction of the new Whitby hospice, which will be named the Hospice Whitby – Roger Anderson House, named for former Regional Chair Roger Anderson.
March 2023
Dunton Rainville Lawyers and Notaries
Gift:
$110,000
Recipient:
Université de Sherbrooke
City:
Sherbrooke
Province:
QC
Donation is over five years to the Faculty of Law and will create an endowment fund which will allow the Faculty to provide scholarships to students.
March 2023
Glencore Canada
Gift:
$350,000
Recipient:
Cambrian College
City:
Sudbury
Province:
ON
Donation supports the launch of the Battery Electric Vehicle Lab and will help cover construction and operating costs and equipment procurement. The donation will also provide funds to annual bursaries to Indigenous students enrolled in technology, engineering, and skilled trades programs.
March 2023
Arthur L. Irving Family Foundation
Gift:
$5,000,000
Recipient:
Saint Mary's University
City:
Halifax
Province:
NS
Donation is toward the new Saint Mary’s University Entrepreneurship Centre.
March 2023
Kellogg Canada
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Breakfast Club of Canada
City:
Boucherville
Province:
QC
Donation is to mark National Cereal Day and will support children and breakfast programs across Canada.
March 2023
Tom Kevill
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton Foundation
City:
Hamilton
Province:
ON
Donation is to the Hamilton Regional Eye Institute and supports the acquisition of an Optical Coherence Tomography scanner.
March 2023
Marcel and Frances Labelle Foundation
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
Northern Ontario School of Medicine
City:
Thunder Bay
Province:
ON
The donation from the Marcel and Frances Labelle Foundation will be matched by the FDC Foundation to create an endowment for undergraduate medical students from communities along the Highway 11 corridor.
March 2023
FDC Foundation
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
Northern Ontario School of Medicine
City:
Thunder Bay
Province:
ON
FDC Foundation matched a $500,000 donation from the Marcel and Frances Labelle Foundation to create an endowment for undergraduate medical students from communities along the Highway 11 corridor.
March 2023
Stu & Kim Lang
Gift:
$1,775,000
Recipient:
Canadian Canoe Museum
City:
Peterborough
Province:
ON
Donation supports the creation of a waterfront campus at the Canadian Canoe Museum’s new home in Peterborough.
March 2023
Laurentian Bank
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Windmill Microlending
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
Donation is over two years and will support skilled immigrants and refugees in Quebec to pay for the costs of accreditation, training, and career development.
March 2023
Law Foundation of British Columbia
Gift:
$6,000,000
Recipient:
University of Victoria
City:
Victoria
Province:
BC
Donation is in support of the construction of the National Centre for Indigenous Laws.
March 2023
London Health Sciences Foundation and the Kidney Foundation of Canada
Gift:
$3,500,000
Recipient:
Western University
City:
London
Province:
ON
Donation is to create an endowed chair in kidney research.
March 2023
Students’ Association of MacEwan University
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
MacEwan University
City:
Edmonton
Province:
AB
Donation is to the SAMU Cares Endowment Fund, a bursary program which supports students in financial crisis.
March 2023
Mackenzie-Papineau Memorial Fund
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
York University
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
Donation is for the creation of an endowed professorship that supports scholarship, research, and teaching in Spanish history.
March 2023
McCall MacBain Foundation
Gift:
$5,000,000
Recipient:
Niagara Health Foundation
City:
St. Catharines
Province:
ON
Donation is to the It’s Our Future campaign and supports the new Niagara South hospital.
March 2023
Medavie Foundation
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
New Brunswick Community College
City:
Fredericton
Province:
NB
Donation supports the practical nursing program and will help with educational technology in the health simulation labs.
March 2023
J&W Murphy Foundation
Gift:
$3,000,000
Recipient:
Dartmouth General Hospital Foundation
City:
Dartmouth
Province:
NS
Donation is a part of the Lead On capital campaign and will be used for African Nova Scotian Healthcare Bursaries, the Geriatric Care Nurse Practitioner Program, palliative care, and to purchase equipment and technology including the hospital’s first MRI.
March 2023
Northpine Foundation
Gift:
$1,100,000
Recipient:
Vancouver Island University
City:
Nanaimo
Province:
BC
Donation is to the University’s “inside-out” program, which offers courses at correctional facilities on Vancouver Island for both VIU students as well as incarcerated students, and will allow for the program to expand to other schools in British Columbia.
March 2023
Orlando Corporation
Gift:
$75,000,000
Recipient:
Trillium Health Partners Foundation
City:
Mississauga
Province:
ON
Orlando Corporation announced it would match donations made to Trillium Health Partners up to $75 million. $50 million will help build the new home of the Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital; $10 million will go toward the construction and equipping of a Mental Health Inpatient Unit; and $15 million will support the Institute for Better Health.
March 2023
Vivienne and Neville Poy
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Toronto Metropolitan University
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
Donation is to the Image Centre and will be given over five years to support a youth outreach program and advanced internships to recent graduates from the University.
March 2023
RBC
Gift:
$850,000
Recipient:
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
City:
Calgary
Province:
AB
Donation is to the SAIT School of Transportation and will help develop electric vehicle readiness training and youth skills programming. A portion of the funds will also go toward SAIT’s Transportation and Manufacturing Industry Nights over the next five years, events which provide students with automotive industry networking opportunities.
March 2023
Peter Gilgan Foundation
Gift:
$200,000
Recipient:
Plan International Canada
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
Donation is for Women’s Innovation for Sustainable Enterprises (WISE) – Ghana, which seeks to promote innovative, integrated and gender transformative business services. The project was launched in partnership with Global Affairs Canada, and will help women in Ghana succeed as sustainable, climate conscious entrepreneurs, helping close the gender gap in women’s full and equal participation in economic development.
March 2023
Rogers Foundation, Lisa Rogers, and Rogers Communication
Gift:
$5,000,000
Recipient:
Scarborough Health Network Foundation
City:
Scarborough
Province:
ON
The combined donation from Rogers Foundation, Lisa Rogers, and Rogers Communication is to the Love, Scarborough campaign, and will support the Bridletowne Neighbourhood Centre, a hub for chronic kidney disease prevention, education, and dialysis; an expanded Hemodialysis Unit at Centenary Hospital; and in-kind media support to raise awareness about Scarborough hospitals.
March 2023
Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Saskatoon Tribal Council
City:
Saskatoon
Province:
SK
Donation is to help the Saskatoon Tribal Council Emergency Wellness Centre’s nutrition program, and will support three meals daily and snacks for those staying at the facility.
March 2023
Scotiabank
Gift:
$1,400,000
Recipient:
Concordia University
City:
Montreal
Province:
QC
Donation is to the Campaign for Concordia: Next-Gen Now and will help Indigenous and international students succeed through the Kaié:ri Nikawerà:ke Indigenous Bridging Program and the Career Roadmap for International Student Excellence.
March 2023
Scotiabank
Gift:
$250,000
Recipient:
Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation
City:
Peterborough
Province:
ON
Donation is in support of the Youth Eating Disorders Day Program.
March 2023
Kathleen Sheret (Estate Of)
Gift:
$34,000,000
Recipient:
Garth Homer Foundation
City:
Victoria
Province:
BC
March 2023
Andy and Helen Spriet
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
London Health Sciences Foundation
City:
London
Province:
ON
Donation will help establish an immuno-oncology research program at the London Regional Cancer Program.
March 2023
Bill and Sue Swinimer and family
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital Foundation
City:
Orillia
Province:
ON
Donation is toward the Hospital’s MRI project.
March 2023
TD Bank
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
Camosun College
City:
Victoria
Province:
BC
Donation will be used to fund an Indigenous coordinator and support program development and outreach for students.
March 2023
TD Bank
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
University of Victoria
City:
Victoria
Province:
BC
Donation was made to University of Victoria’s Pacific Regional Institute for Marine Energy Discovery and goes toward the next stages of the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation’s Yuquot Wave Energy Project.
March 2023
TD Bank
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Green Communities Association
City:
Peterborough
Province:
ON
Donation supports the Living Cities Canada program, which advances green infrastructure in cities and towns across Canada.
March 2023
TD Bank
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Skills for Change
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
Donation is to the Youth Climate Action Initiative, which aims to create a culture of environmental preservation, health and well-being in youth in the Greater Toronto Area to lead urban greening initiatives.
March 2023
TD Bank
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
SmallChange Fund
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
Donation supports the Environmental Justice Research Alliance, which connects communities disproportionately impacted by climate change with researchers to conduct research which supports climate and environmental justice.
March 2023
TD Bank
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
University of Ottawa
City:
Ottawa
Province:
ON
Donation supports the National Indigenous Climate Compass, an online data analysis tool which aims to help Indigenous communities adapt to and mitigate climate change risks.
March 2023
Teck Resources Limited
Gift:
$2,000,000
Recipient:
University of British Columbia
City:
Vancouver
Province:
BC
Donation supports a new professorship focused on enhancing safety and sustainability in mine tailings management, which will be a part of UBC Applied Science’s Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering. The endowment from Teck will be matched by UBC to fund the position.
March 2023
Toldo Foundation
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Windsor Symphony Orchestra
City:
Windsor
Province:
ON
Donation will go to the WSO Endowment Future Fund, which provides financial security to protect the future of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra.
March 2023
Vivienne Poy and the Lee Tak Wai Foundation
Gift:
$2,800,000
Recipient:
Chinese Canadian Museum
City:
Vancouver
Province:
BC
Donation supports the Museum’s work as it prepares to open in July.
March 2023
David and Dorothy Lam Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Chinese Canadian Museum
City:
Vancouver
Province:
BC
Donation supports the Museum’s work as it prepares to open in July.
March 2023
Value Energy Transition Metals
Gift:
$1,600,000
Recipient:
University of Toronto
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
Donation is over three years and launched a partnership between Value Energy Transition Metals and the University of Toronto which will develop sustainable mining solutions and foster Canadian skills and talent.
March 2023
Visa Foundation
Gift:
$250,000
Recipient:
Feed Ontario
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
Donation is over two years and will go toward the FeedON program, ensuring more than 1,200 food banks and hunger-relief organizations within the Feed Ontario network are stocked with food needed to support their communities.
March 2023
Bill and Irma Welikoklad
Gift:
$300,000
Recipient:
Red Deer Polytechnic
City:
Red Deer
Province:
AB
Donation supports upgrades to Red Deer Polytechnic’s simulation lab, in which health sciences students gain experience and develop skills through real-world patient care scenario simulations.
March 2023
Yusef and Metin Yenilmez
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Scarborough Health Network Foundation
City:
Scarborough
Province:
ON
Donation is to the Love, Scarborough campaign.
March 2023
Affordable Bar Prep Inc.
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
CAMH Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
Donation is through a gift of life insurance from a policy on Parish Bhumgara, founder of Affordable Bar Prep.
April 2023
Anonymous
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Canadian Cancer Society
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
An anonymous donor matched funds given to Canadian Cancer Society’s annual daffodil campaign up to $100,000.
April 2023
Anonymous
Gift:
$10,000,000
Recipient:
Society for the Preservation of Église Sainte-Marie
City:
Church Point
Province:
NS
An anonymous donor offered to cover costs to restore the church and help with ongoing operational and maintenance costs, estimated to be approximately $10 million.
April 2023
BMO
Gift:
$2,000,000
Recipient:
University of Saskatchewan
City:
Saskatoon
Province:
SK
Donation will support research at the College of Agriculture through two initiatives, a soil analytical laboratory and a new research chair in regenerative agriculture.
April 2023
BMO
Gift:
$3,500,000
Recipient:
Western University
City:
London
Province:
ON
Donation is to the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership at the Ivey Business School for the creation of a cross-campus leadership certificate program. The gift will also strengthen the Leadership Under Fire course, doubling the number of students able to take the course.
April 2023
Heather and Ian Bourne
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
University of Calgary
City:
Calgary
Province:
AB
Donation was a part of the annual Giving Day campaign and is to the Calgary Institute for the Humanities to support the graduate student fellowship.
April 2023
Cameco
Gift:
$200,000
Recipient:
Northumberland Hills Hospital Foundation
City:
Cobourg
Province:
ON
Donation supports equipment needs of the Hospital’s Diagnostic Imaging Department, which plans to replace its MRI and CT scanners over the next two years.
April 2023
Victor Dahdaleh Foundation
Gift:
$15,000,000
Recipient:
St. Frances Xavier University
City:
Antigonish
Province:
NS
Donation will fund the construction of a health research institute building.
April 2023
Devonleigh Homes
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Huntsville Hospital Foundation
City:
Huntsville
Province:
ON
Donation is to the Focus On Imaging campaign, and helped purchase new X-ray technology.
April 2023
Flexahopper Plastics
Gift:
$125,000
Recipient:
University of Lethbridge
City:
Lethbridge
Province:
AB
Donation is to the ULethbridge central scholarship fund. The University’s Board of Governors will match Flexahopper’s donation as part of its $10-million pledge in matching funds to establish new endowed student awards.
April 2023
Wayne Foo
Gift:
$4,000,000
Recipient:
Calgary Cancer Centre
City:
Calgary
Province:
AB
Wayne Foo and his family have made $4 million in donations to cancer and tumour research through the OWN.Cancer campaign.
April 2023
Heart & Stroke Foundation
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
University of Manitoba
City:
Winnipeg
Province:
MB
Donation is toward the funding of a new research chair in neurological stroke at the Max Rady College of Medicine in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences. Heart & Stroke partnered with Research Manitoba and the University, who contributed $300,000 and $200,000 respectively toward the chair’s funding of $200,000 per year for five years.
April 2023
Honda Canada Foundation
Gift:
$200,000
Recipient:
Habitat for Humanity Canada
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
Donation is over two years and will help address the racial homeownership gap and provide Black families with more opportunities to build equity through homeownership through two projects, one led by Habitat for Humanity Greater Toronto Area, and another by Habitat for Humanity Southern Alberta.
April 2023
Donald K. Johnson
Gift:
$30,000,000
Recipient:
Western University
City:
London
Province:
ON
Donation is to the Ivey Business School and well expand the School’s presence in downtown Toronto through the creation of a new facility at a new campus location.
April 2023
Margaret and the late Charles Juravinski
Gift:
$5,100,000
Recipient:
The Juravinski Research Institute
City:
Hamilton
Province:
ON
The Juravinski Research Institute, a partnership between Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University, and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, will use the donation to support high priority health research initiatives focused on enhancing the health of residents of Hamilton and patients throughout the region.
April 2023
Knights of Columbus
Gift:
$149,221
Recipient:
NEO Kids Foundation
City:
Sudbury
Province:
ON
Funds for the donation came from the Unity Project, a fundraiser for the NEO Kids Foundation held by 18 local Knights of Columbus councils.
April 2023
LJM Developments
Gift:
$150,000
Recipient:
Habitat for Humanity Niagara
City:
St. Catharines
Province:
ON
Donation will be used to build affordable homes.
April 2023
Marcel Lussier
Gift:
$7,000,000
Recipient:
The Véro & Louis Foundation
City:
Montreal
Province:
ON
Donation will help fund two new houses for adults with autism.
April 2023
Madison Group
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
SickKids Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
Donation will support the redevelopment of SickKids’ new hospital campus.
April 2023
Marotta Family
Gift:
$10,000,000
Recipient:
Niagara Health Foundation
City:
St. Catharines
Province:
ON
Donation supports the It’s Our Future campaign to build the South Niagara Hospital.
April 2023
McCall MacBain Foundation
Gift:
$300,000
Recipient:
Niagara Falls Public Library
City:
Niagara Falls
Province:
ON
Donation supports renovations at the Niagara Falls Public Library’s Stamford Centre location.
April 2023
Northwestel
Gift:
$300,000
Recipient:
Stanton Territorial Hospital Foundation
City:
Yellowknife
Province:
NT
Donation kicks off the new Close to Home campaign.
April 2023
Jim Pattison
Gift:
$5,000,000
Recipient:
Niagara Health Foundation
City:
St. Catharines
Province:
ON
Donation supports the It’s Our Future campaign to build the South Niagara Hospital.
April 2023
Pizza Nova
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Scarborough Health Network Foundation
City:
Scarborough
Province:
ON
Donation supports the Love, Scarborough campaign and will help create an innovative Diagnostic Imaging Department at Scarborough Health Network’s General Hospital.
April 2023
Prince Rupert Port Authority
Gift:
$450,000
Recipient:
The Salvation Army
City:
Prince Rupert
Province:
BC
Donation supported renovations of the Prince Rupert Community Kitchen.
April 2023
Mike and Francisca Quinn
Gift:
$2,500,000
Recipient:
Queen's University
City:
Kingston
Province:
ON
Donation was made through the Quinn Family Future Foundation to the Smith School of Business to establish an environmental, social, and governance professorship.
April 2023
SkipTheDishes
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Food Banks Canada
City:
Mississauga
Province:
ON
Donation will provide 200,000 meals to Canadians in need. SkipTheDishes will also be donating all surplus food from its 23 Skip Express Lane fulfillment centres to local food banks across the country.
April 2023
The Sprott Foundation
Gift:
$4,000,000
Recipient:
WoodGreen Community Services
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
Donation supports the Unmet Needs campaign which aims to assist vulnerable communities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and will go toward the purchase and conversion of a church property into affordable housing for seniors as well as the establishment of a commercial kitchen and community food bank on site.
April 2023
StateView Homes
Gift:
$1,500,000
Recipient:
SickKids Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
Donation is to help build the new hospital.
April 2023
Zutphen Contractors Inc.
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital Foundation
City:
Inverness
Province:
NS
Donation was made on behalf of all past and present Zutphen Contractors employees.