Major Gift News

The 10-year commitment is aimed at improving the lives of people affected by cancer living in rural and remote communities in Northern Ontario, including the improved facilitation of Northern Ontario Indigenous populations’ ability to source and receive culturally appropriate and relevant cancer resources and support.

Donation is to initiate the redevelopment plan for the southeast corner of King’s campus. The new facility will house a gym and wellness centre, student support space, and flexible residence space.

Donation is to attract new educators to fill vacancies at small schools.

Donation is to create a new scholarship to support health care education.

Donation is half of a total gift of $500,000 made by the Association of Interior Relations to support wildfire relief efforts in BC.

Donation is half of a total gift of $500,000 made by the Association of Interior Relations to support wildfire relief efforts in BC.

Donation is to the previously established Balsillie School of International Affairs for the establishment of the Technology Governance Initiative.

Donation will establish the Yuval & Lori Barzakay Brain Sciences Clinic, which will serve as a hub for specialized multidisciplinary outpatient clinics and provide patients with a variety of brain disorders to receive care.

Donation will help expand the Building Brighter Futures: Bursaries, Scholarships and Awards program, as well as support multi-year travel grants for Soaring, Indigenous Youth Empowerment Gathering, and the National Gathering for Indigenous Education.

Donation will support independent research at the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, and the construction of a new Research & Discovery Centre.

Donation is in support of the MacEwan Means Business campaign, which is raising funds for a new School of Business building.

Donation establishes a fund to support advancement of brain health care at Kelowna General Hospital

Donation supports the Baltimore project, which will create an affordable housing complex in Baltimore.

Donation will support Perimeter’s capacity to attract postdoctoral fellows to accelerate quantum causal inference research over the next three years.

Donation supports wildfire relief efforts.

Donation will fund annual initiatives and special projects at the University’s Onsite Gallery for the next 10 years; create an annual award; and establish a bursary fund to support students in the Criticism and Curatorial Practice programs.

Through the Driver Away Hunger program, Farm Credit Canada will match donations made to food security agencies in Canada up to $1 million.

Donation is to the University of Regina Press to create textbook and audio resources for Dakota and Dene language courses.

Donation supports the creation of the new Centre for Digital Innovation in Education.

Donation supports the Waterloo Eye Institute at the School of Optometry and Vision Science.

Donation supports the Waterloo Eye Institute at the School of Optometry and Vision Science.

Donation is to the Exceptional Community, Exceptional Care campaign and supports projects, medical equipment, and technology at the Hospital.

Donation supports interdisciplinary research and teaching, focusing on AI, data science, gaming software and hardware platforms, game design, theory and modelling, as well as student scholarships and upgrades to UNB’s Significant Play and Research in Games Lab.

Donation is from Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore Company over two years and will support the construction of a new pavilion for training, research and innovation in the railway, industrial maintenance and energy intelligence industries.

Donation supports the redevelopment of the IWK Emergency Department.

This endowment gift supports CNIB’s post-secondary bursaries program.

Donation is to Niagara Health Foundation’s It’s Our Future campaign, in support of building the new South Niagara Hospital.

Donation is from the Mastercard Foundation’s Yukon EleV Program and will be given over the next five years toward several projects focused on systems change. EleV will collaborate with Yukon First Nations partners to support various education and training initiatives.

Keyano College matched the gift from the Métis Education Foundation to establish a $1 million Metis Education Endowment Fund.

The Morningview Foundation has committed to match up to $1 million per year for three years to gifts made to the Smart Headwaters campaign.

Donation supports the new home for the Vancouver Art Gallery.

This unspecified multi-million dollar donation will enhance onsite and digital learning around the Museum’s Permanent Collection and support unique Performing Arts programs which provide opportunities for communities to connect through collaboration and performance.

Donation will allow the Hospital to acquire a second CT scanner. Additionally, $5 million from the gift will go toward creating a “calm, healing environment” for patients in single occupancy rooms and funding new technologies in the new Yurkovich Family Pavilion.

Donation is to the Keep Life Wild campaign.

Donation is made in honour of the late William B.G. Humphries, who established the Radlett Foundation, and will be the catalyst for a full-scale reimagining of the Gardiner Museum’s ground floor, which includes the construction of a new fully equipped makerspace, a community engagement centre, and an Indigenous gallery space. The gift also includes over 250 objects from Humphries’ collection of ceramics and decorative art.

Donation will fund two programs which support Indigenous students, the RBC Grad-Ready Program and the RBC Peer-to-Peer Indigenous Support System.

The late Mary and Henry Rempel left a real estate portfolio worth $229.6 million to the Mennonite Central Committee British Columbia.

Donation will support the Shelter Ready program, as well as research and policy development to better understand the scope of services and supports provided to women and children fleeing violence, at a national scope.

Donation will support the Teen Healthy Relationship program, as well as research and policy development aimed at addressing increased demand service providers are facing in response to the rising rates of gender-based violence.

Donation is to the Ganawishkadawe Centre for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health at Women’s College Hospital, and will support medical education, health promotion, advocacy, and research.

The Slaight Family Foundation has committed $26.5 million to support youth and mental health initiatives at 19 organizations in Canada.

Donation is to the MacPhail School of Energy and the School for Advanced Digital Technology, and will allow for infrastructure upgrades, the creation of new student awards, support for the International Society of Automation student club.

Donation is to the Conservation and Restoration program.

Donation supports the advancement of the College’s commitment to integrating Indigenous knowledge and culture on campus.

Donation is over five years to the Beyond Reconciliation campaign, which supports Indigenous organizations, groups, and individuals delivering programs focused on culture, language, the restoration of land-based traditional knowledge, healing, reconciliation, education, and employment.

$3 million of the gift will support the Dr. Gilles Arcand Centre for Health Equity, with the remainder going toward the University’s Student Endowment Fund.

Donation will support Canadian Red Cross’s relief and preparedness efforts for emergencies and disasters that occur across the country.