Our Causes
HGC takes pride in being able to serve our community and provide a long lasting, positive impact in the lives of those around us. Through our philanthropic endeavors, we are thrilled to support the incredible work of the following organizations:
Capitalize for Kids works with kids’ mental health agencies across the country to identify operational opportunities to reduce wait times by building the capacity of their existing services. In addition, agencies receive three years of funding to implement any solution recommended and C4K supports them throughout the entire change management process. To further expand impact, at the completion of a project, they template and share what they learned so that other mental health service providers across Canada are empowered to implement similar solutions.
Healthier Children. A Better World. As leaders in child heath, SickKids partners locally and globally to improve the health of children through the integration of care, research and education. SickKids is in campaign to build a new hospital that is fortified for disasters and everyday care, to elevate healthcare beyond the walls of their building and to continue to fund breakthrough research. SickKids goals are within reach because of their donors support.
Childhood cancer changes lives. So does camp. At Campfire Circle (formerly Camp Ooch & Camp Trillium), we are passionate about building a world where children thrive and families heal. Through our year-round hospital, community and overnight camp programs, we foster resilience, well-being and lifelong connections for kids and families affected by childhood cancer.
Holland Bloorview helps kids with disabilities smile, laugh, learn and heal. They are Canada’s largest children’s rehabilitation hospital with more than 8,000 kids coming through their doors every year with autism, cerebral palsy, acquired brain injuries, amputation, epilepsy, concussion and other physical and developmental disabilities. They help kids breathe on their own, become more active, talk with family, become more independent, or just feel less pain. With passionate frontline staff offering treatments, therapies and specialized programs and services, Holland Bloorview is creating a world of possibilities for kids with disabilities.
Sinai Health is a specialized health care system and biomedical research institute, discovering and delivering life-changing care. Our globally recognized experts push the boundaries of care for infants, the most complex chronic illnesses and the diseases of ageing.
At BBBST, we aspire to build thriving communities by empowering lives through mentorship. We do this by enabling life-changing mentoring relationships to ignite the power and potential of young people.
For almost 100 years, Easter Seals Ontario has been a champion for children and youth with physical disabilities from all ethnic and religious backgrounds. Their programs and services enable children and youth to live safely in their homes, access their communities, and experience greater independence and accomplishment. Each year they help hundreds of families purchase life-changing mobility and accessibility equipment, like wheelchairs, ramps, and bathing equipment, for their child. Easter Seals Ontario also provides recreational programming through its two fully accessible summer camps and virtual camp, offering children with physical disabilities the chance to experience fun, friendship and inclusive activities.
St. Michael’s Foundation stops at nothing to fund the relentless pursuit of solutions to some of the world’s toughest health challenges. We mobilize people, businesses and foundations to support St. Michael’s Hospital and Providence Healthcare in their quest to deliver the care experience Canadians deserve.
Boost CYAC is a proven community response to child abuse investigations in Toronto where local community and government agencies provide a coordinate response to child abuse victims. In addition to intervention and investigation of cases, it offers a number of direct services including court preparation for child witnesses, trauma assessment and therapy, primary prevention programs in elementary schools and public education
Dream Serenade is an annual benefit concert at Massey Hall that began in 2014 as a way for parents Christie Greyerbiehl and musician/songwriter Hayden Desser to celebrate and support their daughter's school, Beverley Street School. The event has since grown to raise awareness and funds for other local schools and care-centres with year-round community programs including respite, COVID relief, and summer camp bursaries for children with developmental/physical disabilities and their families across the Greater Toronto Area.
JDRF is the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. Our strength lies in our exclusive focus and singular influence on the worldwide effort to end T1D. JDRF works every day to change the reality of this disease for millions of people—and to prevent anyone else from ever knowing it—by funding research, advocating for government support of research and new therapies, ensuring new therapies come to market and connecting and engaging the T1D community.
Founded in 2009, True Patriot Love Foundation has become Canada’s leading organization supporting the military community. The foundation raises awareness around the challenges related to military service and funds programs for serving members of the Canadian Armed Forces, Veterans and their families that support their well-being, enable rehabilitation and recovery from injury, assist the children and spouses of those who serve, and promote re-integration into communities following service. Since inception, True Patriot Love has committed over $30 million in funding to 925 community-based programs across the country, which has helped change the lives of more than 33,000 military members, Veterans and families
In collaboration with a supportive food bank network that spans coast-to-coast-to-coast, Food Banks Canada provides national leadership to relieve hunger today and prevent hunger tomorrow. As a national charitable organization, Food Banks Canada is dedicated to helping Canadians living with food insecurity by supporting a network of Provincial Associations, affiliate food banks and food agencies that work at the community level to relieve hunger. Food Banks Canada is focused on maximizing collective impact, strengthening local capacity, and reducing the demand for food banks until a day when they are no longer needed.