Kids Help Phone
Fashion Brand Ellie Mae Creates Nine Accessories In Support of Kids Help Phone
Fashion Brand Ellie Mae Creates Nine Accessories In Support of Kids Help Phone Canadian fashion designer Ellie Mae has created a limited-edition collection of scrunchies, socks and tote bags, with a portion of the proceeds benefitting Kids Help Phone, Canada’s only 24/7 national youth support service. There are nine items in total: three Sophie…
Slaight Family Foundation Gifts $30 Million To 19 Mental Health Initiatives
Slaight Family Foundation Gifts $30 Million To 19 Mental Health Initiatives Gary Slaight — photo provided.The Slaight Family Foundation, one of Toronto’s most wide-reaching and generous philanthropic family foundations, is divvying up $30 million to 19 Canadian organizations offering mental health services to people experiencing all kinds of distress and…
Q&A: Author of The Tragically Hip Book Says Earmarking for Charity Is What You Should Do
Q&A: Author of The Tragically Hip Book Says Earmarking for Charity Is What You Should Do Author Michael Barclay with his new book on The Tragically Hip — photo courtesy of ECW Press.The Tragically Hip might at least be pleased that a portion of the proceeds from the sale of Michael Barclay’s new book, The Never-Ending Present (ECW Press), about the…
Staples Gives Almost $200k to Five Canadian Charities
Staples Gives Almost $200k to Five Canadian Charities Staples donated $10,000 USD to Pathways To Education — photo courtesy Torchia CommunicationsFive Canadian charities will split $150,000 USD ($196,442 CAD) as part of office supply retailer Staples' 2 Million & Change worldwide program, which directs funding to non-profit organizations focused on…
Slaight Family Foundation Gives $11 Million to 11 Canadian Charities
Slaight Family Foundation Gives $11 Million to 11 Canadian Charities The Slaight Family: (L to R) Ali, Gary, Chrissy and Donna — photo credit: Gary Beechey.Toronto’s The Slaight Family Foundation (SFF) has announced that 11 Canadian national charities that serve children and youth will each receive a donation of $1 million. The selection of the…
Singer Lights Creates Self-Empowering T-Shirt for Kids Help Phone
Singer Lights Creates Self-Empowering T-Shirt for Kids Help Phone Lights sports her T-shirt design with Bluenotes for Kids Help Phone — photo courtesy of Lights.Singer Lights created a cool comic book style image for a charity T-shirt in partnership with Bluenotes clothing retailer. All proceeds go to Kids Help Phone, which provides round the clock…
Kids Help Phone Launches Free Map-Based App Tool With 11,000 Resources
Kids Help Phone Launches Free Map-Based App Tool With 11,000 Resources Canada’s youth support charity Kids Help Phone has just launched its newest free tool, which offers young people a discreet way to find help for depression, bullying, abuse, and other issues. Resources Around Me is a map-based guide that shows them where they can go in their community…
Singer Alyssa Reid Thinking of Ways To Help 9-Year-Old with Leukemia
Singer Alyssa Reid Thinking of Ways To Help 9-Year-Old with Leukemia Singer Alyssa Reid sports a Because I Am A Girl t-shirt.Toronto singer Alyssa Reid, whose new single “Satisfaction Guaranteed” is currently in the top 10 at Canadian pop radio, has lent her name to Kids Help Phone and is an ambassador for Because I Am A Girl, but since her 17-year-old…
Billy Talent To Co-Design T-shirt For Bluenotes Kids Help Phone Campaign
Billy Talent To Co-Design T-shirt For Bluenotes Kids Help Phone Campaign Toronto rock act Billy Talent is next in line to create a graphic t-shirt for Bluenotes clothing retailer to benefit Kids Help Phone. The shirt is due in stores and online the first week of October. “We sent some ideas to them and we’re going to collaborate,” guitarist Ian D’Sa told…
Bluenotes Denim Week In DNA
Bluenotes Denim Week In DNA (L to R) Bluenotes COO/EVP Michael Roden and director of marketing Royal Nasager with the 2012 $5000 cheque for Cure Foundation.Bluenotes, the Canadian denim retailer geared towards teens and young adults, has long practiced corporate social responsibility. Established in 1984, the company which now operates 120 stores…
Simple Plan's Humanitarian Legacy
Simple Plan's Humanitarian Legacy (L to R) Simple Plan's Sébastien Lefebvre, Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau visit a fan at a hospital in Montreal.At what age will you think about your legacy? For drummer Chuck Comeau of multi-platinum-selling pop-punkers Simple Plan, it started at 26. That’s how old he was when he and his bandmates — frontman Pierre…
Simple Plan Book Another Charity Venture
Simple Plan Book Another Charity Venture Simple Plan (photo credit: Sim Klugerman)There is not a lot pop-rock band Simple Plan does these days that doesn’t involve charity from its latest involvement in Kids Help Phone’s True Colors anti-bullying campaign to last week’s benefit luncheon for The Simple Plan Foundation. Now, the Montreal five-piece — and…
Prized Blue Rodeo Memorabilia Among Charity Auction Items
Prized Blue Rodeo Memorabilia Among Charity Auction Items Bob Wiseman played this Acetone keyboard for five years in Blue RodeoFor the first five years of Blue Rodeo’s 25-year recording career, original keyboardist Bob Wiseman’s mesmerizing madcap performing style was a focal point of the band onstage. Now, the Acetone organ he used during those years…
Bluenotes Release Anti-Bullying T-Shirt With Simple Plan, Hedley & More
Bluenotes Release Anti-Bullying T-Shirt With Simple Plan, Hedley & More Canadian denim retailer Bluenotes will be selling a $10 fundraising t-shirt for Kids Help Phone, as of Monday (Nov. 19). Emblazoned on the back are the words “Artists against loneliness, hate, bullying, anger, suffering” and the names of the Canadian musicians involved in the anti…
Seminal Canadian Bands Donate Rarities For Kids Help Phone
Seminal Canadian Bands Donate Rarities For Kids Help Phone Sloan, Grapes of Wrath, Doughboys, Jane Siberry, Change of Heart and the Pursuit of Happiness are just some of the acts whose rare or previously unreleased songs have been licensed for free to Have Not Been The Same: the CanRock Renaissance 1985-95, an album benefitting Kids Help Phone. All…