Major Gift News
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Agnico Eagle
Gift:
$3,000,000
Recipient:
Canadian Cancer Society
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
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.
September 2023
Alpha Aquilae Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
University of King's College
City:
Halifax
Province:
NS
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.
September 2023
Anonymous
Gift:
$200,000
Recipient:
Gold Trail School District
City:
Various
Province:
BC
Donation is to attract new educators to fill vacancies at small schools.
September 2023
Anonymous
Gift:
$3,000,000
Recipient:
Victoria Hospitals Foundation
City:
Victoria
Province:
BC
Donation is to create a new scholarship to support health care education.
September 2023
Association of Interior Realtors
Gift:
$250,000
Recipient:
Canadian Red Cross
City:
Ottawa
Province:
ON
Donation is half of a total gift of $500,000 made by the Association of Interior Relations to support wildfire relief efforts in BC.
September 2023
Association of Interior Realtors
Gift:
$250,000
Recipient:
Salvation Army
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
Donation is half of a total gift of $500,000 made by the Association of Interior Relations to support wildfire relief efforts in BC.
September 2023
Jim Balsillie
Gift:
$5,000,000
Recipient:
Wilfrid Laurier University
City:
Waterloo
Province:
ON
Donation is to the previously established Balsillie School of International Affairs for the establishment of the Technology Governance Initiative.
September 2023
Yuval and Lori Barzakay and Family
Gift:
$10,000,000
Recipient:
Sunnybrook Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
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.
September 2023
BHP
Gift:
$2,600,000
Recipient:
Indspire
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
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.
September 2023
BMO
Gift:
$5,000,000
Recipient:
CAMH Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
Donation will support independent research at the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, and the construction of a new Research & Discovery Centre.
September 2023
Bouchier
Gift:
$250,000
Recipient:
MacEwan University
City:
Edmonton
Province:
AB
Donation is in support of the MacEwan Means Business campaign, which is raising funds for a new School of Business building.
September 2023
Tom Budd
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Kelowna General Hospital Foundation
City:
Kelowna
Province:
BC
Donation establishes a fund to support advancement of brain health care at Kelowna General Hospital
September 2023
Cameco
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Habitat for Humanity Northumberland
City:
Cobourg
Province:
ON
Donation supports the Baltimore project, which will create an affordable housing complex in Baltimore.
September 2023
Cenovus Energy
Gift:
$450,000
Recipient:
Perimeter Institute
City:
Waterloo
Province:
ON
Donation will support Perimeter’s capacity to attract postdoctoral fellows to accelerate quantum causal inference research over the next three years.
September 2023
The Anglo American Foundation
Gift:
$200,000
Recipient:
United Way North West Territories
City:
Yellowknife
Province:
NT
Donation supports wildfire relief efforts.
September 2023
Kiki Delaney and Family
Gift:
$2,500,000
Recipient:
OCAD University
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
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.
September 2023
Farm Credit Canada
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Various food banks
City:
National
Province:
Through the Driver Away Hunger program, Farm Credit Canada will match donations made to food security agencies in Canada up to $1 million.
September 2023
Federated Co-operatives Limited
Gift:
$125,000
Recipient:
University of Regina
City:
Regina
Province:
SK
Donation is to the University of Regina Press to create textbook and audio resources for Dakota and Dene language courses.
September 2023
Leslie and Mitch Frazer
Gift:
$3,000,000
Recipient:
Ontario Tech University
City:
Oshawa
Province:
ON
Donation supports the creation of the new Centre for Digital Innovation in Education.
September 2023
FYidoctors
Gift:
$5,000,000
Recipient:
University of Waterloo
City:
Waterloo
Province:
ON
Donation supports the Waterloo Eye Institute at the School of Optometry and Vision Science.
September 2023
IRIS
Gift:
$2,500,000
Recipient:
University of Waterloo
City:
Waterloo
Province:
ON
Donation supports the Waterloo Eye Institute at the School of Optometry and Vision Science.
September 2023
HTM Insurance Company
Gift:
$250,000
Recipient:
Northumberland Hills Hospital Foundation
City:
Cobourg
Province:
ON
Donation is to the Exceptional Community, Exceptional Care campaign and supports projects, medical equipment, and technology at the Hospital.
September 2023
International Game Technology
Gift:
$3,000,000
Recipient:
University of New Brunswick
City:
Fredericton
Province:
NB
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.
September 2023
Rio Tinto
Gift:
$4,000,000
Recipient:
Cégep de Sept-Îles
City:
Sept-Iles
Province:
QC
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.
September 2023
J.D. Irving Limited
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
IWK Foundation
City:
Halifax
Province:
NS
Donation supports the redevelopment of the IWK Emergency Department.
September 2023
Joyce Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,500,000
Recipient:
CNIB
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
This endowment gift supports CNIB’s post-secondary bursaries program.
September 2023
Michael and Jana Katz
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Niagara Health Foundation
City:
St. Catharines
Province:
ON
Donation is to Niagara Health Foundation’s It’s Our Future campaign, in support of building the new South Niagara Hospital.
September 2023
Mastercard Foundation
Gift:
$11,400,000
Recipient:
Yukon University
City:
Whitehorse
Province:
YK
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.
September 2023
Métis Education Foundation
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
Keyano College
City:
Fort McMurry
Province:
AB
Keyano College matched the gift from the Métis Education Foundation to establish a $1 million Metis Education Endowment Fund.
September 2023
Morningview Foundation
Gift:
$3,000,000
Recipient:
Headwaters Health Care Foundation
City:
Orangeville
Province:
ON
The Morningview Foundation has committed to match up to $1 million per year for three years to gifts made to the Smart Headwaters campaign.
September 2023
Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation
Gift:
$5,000,000
Recipient:
Vancouver Art Gallery
City:
Vancouver
Province:
BC
Donation supports the new home for the Vancouver Art Gallery.
September 2023
Nanji Family Foundation
Gift:
Unspecified
Recipient:
Aga Khan Museum
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
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.
September 2023
Dan On
Gift:
$10,000,000
Recipient:
Richmond Hospital Foundation
City:
Richmond
Province:
BC
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.
September 2023
PureHealth Pharmacy
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre Foundation
City:
Barrie
Province:
ON
Donation is to the Keep Life Wild campaign.
September 2023
The Radlett Foundation
Gift:
$9,000,000
Recipient:
Gardiner Museum
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
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.
September 2023
RBC Foundation
Gift:
$200,000
Recipient:
Humber College
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
Donation will fund two programs which support Indigenous students, the RBC Grad-Ready Program and the RBC Peer-to-Peer Indigenous Support System.
September 2023
Henry and Mary Rempel (Estate of)
Gift:
$229,600,000
Recipient:
Mennonite Central Committee British Columbia
City:
Abbotsford
Province:
BC
The late Mary and Henry Rempel left a real estate portfolio worth $229.6 million to the Mennonite Central Committee British Columbia.
September 2023
Shoppers Foundation for Women’s Health
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
Women's Shelters Canada
City:
Ottawa
Province:
ON
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.
September 2023
Shoppers Foundation for Women’s Health
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
Canadian Women's Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
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.
September 2023
Shoppers Foundation for Women’s Health
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Women's College Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
ON
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.
September 2023
Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$26,500,000
Recipient:
Various youth and mental health initiatives
City:
National
Province:
The Slaight Family Foundation has committed $26.5 million to support youth and mental health initiatives at 19 organizations in Canada.
September 2023
Spartan Controls
Gift:
$1,580,000
Recipient:
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
City:
Calgary
Province:
AB
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.
September 2023
Subaru Canada
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Parks Canada
City:
Ottawa
Province:
ON
Donation is to the Conservation and Restoration program.
September 2023
Suncor Energy
Gift:
$697,700
Recipient:
Keyano College
City:
Fort McMurry
Province:
AB
Donation supports the advancement of the College’s commitment to integrating Indigenous knowledge and culture on campus.
September 2023
TD Bank
Gift:
$5,000,000
Recipient:
Future Generations Foundation
City:
Akwesasne
Province:
ON
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.
September 2023
Temerty Foundation
Gift:
$10,000,000
Recipient:
Northern Ontario School of Medicine University
City:
Thunder Bay
Province:
ON
$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.
September 2023
Walmart Canada
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Canadian Red Cross
City:
Ottawa
Province:
ON
Donation will support Canadian Red Cross’s relief and preparedness efforts for emergencies and disasters that occur across the country.