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The Child Development Foundation of BC
Supporting The Centre for Child Development
Together, let’s help children with support and special needs reach their potential!
Your Gift Makes a Difference
Changing Lives
Your generous gifts make a real difference in the lives of so many children with special needs in our community.
The therapies you support are transformative, helping some of our most vulnerable and complex children to reach their full potential!
Feeding Team
The Feeding team provides personalized feeding evaluations & consultations, ensuring children with feeding challenges can feed safely and receive enough nutrition
Sophie's Place Child & Youth Advocacy Centre
Sophie’s Place Child & Youth Advocacy Centre, a collaborative team of police, victim services workers, and social workers that help victims of physical and/or sexual abuse (up to age 15) in a safe and compassionate environment, reducing trauma while fostering trust, healing, and resilience.
Hydrotherapy Pool
Our unique and fully accessible Hydrotherapy pool that enables children of all abilities and sensory sensitivies to fully participate in recreation therapy
Interpretation
Ours is a very diverse region and the needs of our children and families are often complicated with other challenges such as not speaking English. Our donor-supported interpretation services help make receiving services more accessible and easier to understand.
Thank you for helping fund these services- you help make new families feel welcome and supported.
“Use of Hindi language is very helpful, and staff helps a lot.”
“[I have learned] a lot of different strategies for handling kids behaviours, especially thankful to [staff] for providing a lot of strategies and all support.”
“I tell many families that I am learning a lot here.”
“I will suggest to have more groups of these types, specially in the other languages.”
“It was my first time, I felt so nice and will love to attend more.”
– Parents’ written comments from a drop-in parent support group facilitated in Hindi and Punjabi, translated.
Casting & Splinting
Casting & Splinting supplies used to fabricate free custom casts/splints (would otherwise cost as much as $800 each, and are replaced frequently as children grow/develop)
Equipment
Equipment team supplies to customize children’s mobility devices, making the most of each child’s unique mobility needs so they can fully participate
Your gifts make such an incredible difference for the children and families that we serve- thank you!
Your Support Changes Lives!
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One Time Donations
Show your support of life-changing services for children with special needs with a donation- it’s fast and easy to give now by clicking here!
Securities, Investments
Consider a gift of stocks and/or bonds, GICs or other investments (all of which are eligible for tax deductible receipts). It’s one of the most tax-effective ways to support a charity.
When you donate securities directly to a charity, you get a charitable tax receipt for the full fair market value at the time of donation. Plus, you may be entitled to a zero inclusion rate on any capital gains realized on such gifts!
For full details, check with your investment advisor and review updated CRA rules.
Example: If you traded in your investments for cash and donated that cash, you would get a tax receipt for your donation. But you would also have to pay capital gains tax on the increased value of those investments (increased from $1,000 to $4,000 which you cashed out and donated: you’d have to pay tax on the profit of $3,000).
But if you gift eligible shares directly to The Centre, you get a tax receipt for the donation and you may not have to pay capital gains tax.
If you have an investment advisor, they can use this form to facilitate the Securities donation process.
If you prefer to do this on your own, you can start the process by clicking here to fill out our Securities donation form (donation processed through CanadaHelps).
Keep Giving
Monthly Giving
When you give a monthly recurring gift, you provide ongoing support and reliable income for transformative programs and services benefitting kids with support needs.
Major Gifts & Pledges
The gifts you pledge today will help support children with special needs in our community. When you wish to make a major gift, we recommend you seek independent legal, financial and tax council. Please have your advisor call us at 604-587-4276 and we would be happy to assist with a major gift and/or pledge.
Endowments
Your endowment will be invested, creating a permanent, yearly gift based on the investment income. This allows you to keep on giving, year after year.
Please call us at 604-587-4276 and we would be happy to discuss an endowment gift.
Give Later
Bequests
Make a gift in your will for a specific sum of money, property or a percentage of your estate’s assets.
The most common types of bequests are:
- Residual bequest: The Centre receives a portion of the remainder of your estate after other specific gifts have been made
- Specific bequest: The Centre receives a specific dollar amount or stated fraction of your estate or a specified gift of property (collections, art, books, real estate, etc.)
- A percentage (or share) charitable bequest: A gift in a will that designates a specific portion of an estate—such as 5%, 10%, half, or more—to be given to a charity. Unlike a fixed dollar amount, this type of bequest adjusts with the size of the estate, offering flexibility and helping ensure that both loved ones and charitable causes receive a fair share.
- Contingent bequest: The Centre would receive a stated share of your estate, but only in the event of the prior death of other named beneficiaries.
- Trust remainder bequest: Named beneficiaries receive income from a trust established in the will. Upon death of the surviving beneficiaries, or at the end of the specified term, all or part of the remaining principal will pass to The Centre.
When you wish to make a bequest gift, we recommend you seek independent legal, financial and tax council. Please have your advisor call us at 604-587-4276 and we would be happy to assist with a bequest gift.
Endowments
Your endowment will be invested, creating a permanent, yearly gift based on the investment income. This allows you to keep on giving, year after year.
Please call us at 604-587-4276 and we would be happy to discuss an endowment gift.
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Other ways to give
Workplace
Giving
Corporate Gifts, Sponsorships
We can help you realize your corporate and charitable-giving objectives. Your gift will have a positive impact for the special children in our community. Please call us at 604-587-4276 and we would be happy to discuss corporate gifts and/or event sponsorships.
More information on upcoming events and sponsorship opportunities
Matching Giving
Your employer may have a Matching Gift Program. These programs can double or even triple the impact of your gift, increasing your support for children in need. Ask your Human Resources department if such a program exists. If not, encourage them to call us at 604-587-4276 and we would be happy to help!
Workplace Giving
Many corporations and public sector employees in British Columbia have organized workplace campaigns. Support transformative services for children with special needs and designate us as the recipient in your workplace campaign. Please call us at 604-587-4276 and we would be happy to assist you with your workplace giving campaign!
Honour Others
In Memory
Honour the memory of a loved one through a gift supporting life-changing services for amazing children. You can do this online by clicking here – you can even send an e-card to acknowledge how much this person meant to you! You can also make this gift over the phone- please call us and we would be happy to help.
In Honour
Honour an individual and/or special occasion through a gift supporting vital services. You can do this online by clicking here and even send an e-card to let someone know how special they are to you! You can also make this gift over the phone- call us and we would be happy to assist you.
Even More Ways to Give
Independent Community Events
Fundraising through Independent Community Events offers you an opportunity to add value to an event you have already planned! It can also be a good reason to create an event that brings people in your circle or organization together, supporting children with special needs in our community. Please call us and we would be happy to connect with you about your Independent Community fundraising event details.
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Gifts in Kind
We sincerely appreciate gifts of equipment, products or materials that can benefit children with special needs and their families, and/or support the services therapists provide them. Please call us to discuss what items we need and can use. If you’d like to receive acknowledgement for your gift please include a sales receipt, appraisal form or other third party evaluation with your gift.
Volunteer
The Centre started with parent volunteers coming together to organize transport for their children with special needs. The spirit of volunteering continues to this day at the Child Development Foundation of BC- we’re always looking for volunteers who can help at our fundraising events, participate on committees, and other activities. If you’d like to volunteer, please click here to get more details and apply.
Questions? Call us: 604-587-4276
Donations collected by the Child Development Foundation of British Columbia
Charitable Registration #133210229 RR0001
The Child Development Foundation of BC will accept gifts restricted to a specific purpose at The Centre for Child Development of the Lower Mainland, provided The Centre can reasonably utilize the gift. The Foundation applies a fee of 10 percent to all restricted donations. This fee provides the Foundation with increased capacity to raise and grant funds for the treatment of children with special needs, as we strive to advance treatment in this area. The fee also allows the Foundation to cover its administrative costs such as stewardship, granting, and reporting.
If circumstances change and the Foundation reasonably determines it’s impractical to continue to apply a specifically designated gift to its original purpose, the Foundation, in consultation with the donor where possible, may re-allocate the gift to another area while keeping in mind the original intention of the gift.
Therapy, care and support under one umbrella
We provide outpatient medical rehabilitation services to help children reach their potential.