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SickKids has been closely monitoring the developments related to the COVID‐19 situation and continues to assess the current climate and adjust our fundraising efforts to keep everyone safe while continuing the important work of raising funds to build a new SickKids. Health and safety for all is the top priority and we want to ensure our community is protected.To ensure everyone remains safe while we continue to fundraise, we have cautiously resumed our fundraising in a limited number of malls and changed the way we sign up new donors to adhere to public health guidelines. Read our FAQs for more information.
Since 2004, SickKids Foundation has conducted face-to-face fundraising campaigns in malls, at events, airports, and other busy environments. Our mall and venue campaign engages and informs shoppers, and the general public, on ways they can help fund the fight for childhood at SickKids.
These donors provide critical unrestricted funding to create impact where it’s needed most now, and where it’s needed next. It’s the best way for donors to assure the best possible outcomes for kids, everywhere, now and in the future.
Public Outreach, our partner in mall and venue fundraising, employs honest and respectful representatives who fundraise on our behalf. Public Outreach employees are compensated through an hourly wage, with no commission.
Health and safety for all is the top priority and we want to ensure our community is protected.
SickKids has been closely monitoring the developments related to the COVID‐19 situation and continues to assess the current climate and adjust our fundraising efforts to keep everyone safe while continuing the important work of raising funds to build a new, safer SickKids.
To ensure everyone remains safe while we continue to fundraise, we have cautiously resumed our fundraising in a limited number of malls and changed the way we sign up new donors to adhere to public health guidelines.
The process is easier now and requires no sharing or touching of materials or tablets. Our fundraisers have been trained to maintain a 2 metre distance, to wear masks and we’ve added plexiglass around the booth to ensure a higher level of safety.
We are assessing the situation daily and will adjust our practices as needed in order to ensure everyone is safe.
Health and safety for all is the top priority and we want to ensure our community is protected.
Any time our SickKids fundraisers speak to the public, they are closely following public health guidelines which means staying 2 metres away, wearing a mask, using hand sanitizers frequently and not sharing any materials or devices during the sign up process.
The fundraisers have been trained on how to engage with the public safely while speaking to the importance of raising much needed funds to build a new, safer SickKids.
Monthly donations received through door to door fundraising go towards the highest priority needs of SickKids, which includes urgent measures to combat COVID-19 and towards the building of a new SickKids.
Yes, as a SickKids monthly donor, you will receive a welcome package in the mail and exclusive updates featuring behind the scenes videos on the impact of your gift.
You will also receive ongoing updates on the ground-breaking innovations your monthly gifts support.