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Provide access to an Integrated System of Health Care to Pender County students and their families, as well as teachers and staff in the school setting.

The Colchester East Hants Health Centre Foundation is a registered charitable organization providing funding to enhance patient care at the Colchester East Hants Health Centre in Truro, Nova Scotia. Since 1989, the Foundation has invested more than $40 million in equipment purchases, patient care and facility enhancements. The Foundation is governed by an 18-member voluntary board of directors with representatives from the local community and the hospital. Funds are raised through planned and major gift solicitation, mail appeals, special events, memorial gifts and other fundraising activities. Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the Foundation is very proud to note the successful conclusion of its $26 million to our health campaign to build a new hospital, the Colchester East Hants Health Centre, which opened in November 2012, as well as the successful conclusion of the $1,055,000 MRI campaign.

OneWorld Health (a drug development affiliate of PATH) is a nonprofit drug development organization. The program works to develop and ensure availability and accessibility of safe and effective new medicines for diseases disproportionately affecting people in developing countries.

The North York Family Health Team (NYFHT)became fully operational in 2008. It is composed of administrative staff, nurses, social workers, dietitians, nurse practitioners and 66 family physicians. There are approximately 64,000 patients with the FHT. NYFHT is an academic Family Health Team associated with the Department of Family & Community Medicine at North York General Hospital and the University of Toronto. The NYFHT serves the diverse population of North York by providing comprehensive primary healthcare, developing programs focused on health promotion, disease prevention, chronic disease management in collaboration with community partners, and creating multidisciplinary teams of healthcare providers to deliver and coordinate high quality care. The NYFHT also plays an active role in education, research, patient care, policy development,inter-professional and primary care learning, disease prevention, and chronic disease management.

Health Partners International of Canada is a not-for-profit relief and development organization that works through partnerships to increase access to medicine and improve health in the developing world. Millions of people around the world suffer and die unnecessarily from preventable and treatable diseases because there is no medicine. In response to the needs on the ground, HPIC requests and receives donations of medicine, vaccines and medical supplies from Canadian healthcare companies. HPIC then provides medical aid through Canadian doctors, aid organizations and government agencies to impoverished communities and countries for emergency relief and community development.

Children’s Health Foundation of Vancouver Island is a registered charity whose purpose is to raise funds to support the health and well being of children and youth in need on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. Our roots go back to 1922, and we were previously known as the Queen Alexandra Foundation for Children. Governed by a volunteer Board of Directors and audited annually, funds are carefully allocated to facilities, services, programs, special projects and urgently needed medical equipment that help ensure children and youth develop to their full potential. Children mean the world to us.

Our humanitarian and development organization offers basic health care to isolated African villages, participates in the fight against HIV/AIDS and other diseases, and contributes to the training of human resources both in Canada and in the host countries of Benin, Tanzania and Uganda.

Mission: First Nations Community HealthSource is committed to providing a culturally competent comprehensive health delivery system integrating traditional values to enhance the physical, social, emotional and spiritual needs of American Indian/Alaskan Native families and other underserved populations residing in Albuquerque and the surrounding areas.

EHANS carries out a variety of activities to achieve these goals including - The popular on-line Guide to Less Toxic Products, www.lesstoxicguide.ca - Environmental health news, analysis and practical information published in our semi-annual publication, and on line at www.environmentalhealth.ca - Gathering and disseminating information addressing the special needs of people with chemical sensitivity - The E. Bruce Elliott Memorial Fund, which supports public lectures, book donations and other educational activities - The E. Bruce Elliott Scholarship in Environmental Medicine, which provides specialized training opportunities to physicians and other health professionals - Support for individuals through a 1-800 phone line - Collaboration with other community groups working to reduce environmental toxins

While government funding does cover your stay, much of the equipment, technology and even things like hospital beds, wheelchairs and furniture are funded by the generosity of individuals in the community. Giving to RVH makes a difference in the health care available to the entire region of Simcoe-Muskoka. Making a donation to RVH will: Help purchase urgently needed medical and surgical equipment and state-of-the-art tools and technology; Build facilities necessary to better serve and meet the specialized needs of our patients; Improve education and awareness initiatives; Create a hospital that attracts and retains the best and brightest medical staff; and Help bring more medical procedures and technology close to home.

The Foundation offers its own sincere gratitude for your generosity. We couldn't do it without you!