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The Child Development Foundation of BC
Supporting The Centre for Child Development
Together, let’s help children with special needs reach their potential!
Your Gift Can Make a Difference!
Your gift makes a real difference in the lives of so many children with special needs in our community. The therapies your donations support are so critical, helping their ongoing development to ensure they reach their full potential!
Your Gifts Help Us
Many of the children we serve are medically fragile. Your generosity helps fund our specialty programs that have such a transformative effect on some of our most vulnerable and complex children:
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)
Feeding & Nutrition
Feeding & Nutrition team dietician that supports the team’s 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.
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
Hydrotherapy Pool
Our unique and fully accessible Hydrotherapy pool that enables children of all abilities and sensory sensitivies to fully participate in recreation therapy
Technology
During the pandemic, with your generous help we were able to focus on virtual services and PPE for essential in-person sessions. Virtual sessions allowed therapists to see kids, providing therapies vital to support their development, give corrective feedback, and maintain the strong emotional connections they’ve established. Your support was vital for safe treatment, allowing children to continue with their therapeutic progress and maintain contact with their therapists, limiting the isolating effects of the pandemic.
We’re continuing to use technology to make our services more adaptable, helping serve children and families in more convenient and impactful ways.
Your gifts make such an incredible difference for the children and families that we serve- thank you!
See How Your Support Helps Children With Special Needs!
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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). 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 and we would be happy to assist with a major gift and/or pledge.
Give Later
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 and we would be happy to discuss an endowment gift.
Bequests
Make a gift in your will for a specific sum of money, property or a percentage of your estate’s assets. When you wish to make a bequest gift, we recommend you seek independent legal, financial and tax council. Please have your advisor call us and we would be happy to assist with a bequest 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 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 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 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: 604-587-4286
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.