Community Care Peterborough has won the $20,000 grand prize in CanadaHelps’ Great Canadian Giving Challenge.
The non-profit organization, which supports seniors and adults living with physical challenges in the City and County of Peterborough, beat out more than 16,000 charities across Canada to claim the prize.
During June, CanadaHelps asked Canadians to donate to their favourite charity, with every $1 donated through the CanadaHelps donation platform giving the charity another chance to win a $20,000 grand prize.
“The Great Canadian Giving Challenge was originally launched in order to counter the cyclical summertime drought many charities experience annually,” says CanadaHelps president and CEO Marina Glogovac in a media release. “As the pandemic continues and we begin recovery efforts, many charities are in need of critical support as some face declining donations.”
During this year’s challenge, 214,672 donors from across Canada gave $26,218,918 to 16,611 charities, with CanadaHelps naming Community Care Peterborough the winner on Canada Day.
“We are so thrilled to win the Great Canadian Giving Challenge,” says Alicia Vandine, donor relations and communications lead for Community Care Peterborough, in a media release. “For over 30 years and of course, throughout the COVID pandemic, we have been supporting our clients to remain safely in their own homes.”
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Vadine attributes the win to the organization’s efforts to make it easier for people to donate using CanadaHelps.
“We adapted our fundraising plans, operating virtual events and improving our online presence, to make it easier for people to support this work with their donations, improving our capacity and process to make online donations easy and secure using our CanadaHelps charity account.”
Vadine says Community Care Peterborough plans to use half of the grand prize to support the organization’s Give a Meal program, which subsidizes Meals on Wheels services to those in greatest need, and the other half going to the organization’s Drive for Dialysis program, which drives dialysis patients to medical appointments.
“Our staff and more than 700 active volunteers support nearly 7,000 clients in the City and County of Peterborough,” says Community Care Peterborough executive director Danielle Belair. “Together, we have provided more than 42,000 hot and frozen meals through our Meals on Wheels program and 22,000 drives to help clients get to medical appointments and other important visits.”
“Our team also provides grocery delivery, telephone reassurance checks to check-in with clients at home, support with home care and maintenance, medical equipment loans, as well as many more client programs.”
For more information about Community Care Peterborough and to make a donation, visit commcareptbo.org.