2020 Spirit of Children
From October 1 until October 31, 2020, receive 10% off of your entire purchase at Spirit Halloween, and a 10% matching donation will be donated to support the Child & Youth Therapeutic Services...
View ArticleYouth Helping Youth
The Young Ambassador Program celebrates 10 years of fundraising for BC Children's Hospital and teams up with the D2D Destiny Foundation to host the Youth in Motion Virtual Charity Concert which raised...
View ArticleFour Things to Know About your Will
Your Will is an essential document, but how can it help you prepare for your loved ones’ futures and make an impact in the lives of others? Joyce Lee, Q.C. shares her top tips. The post Four Things to...
View ArticleAuxiliaries Support BC Children’s Hospital
A new Sibling Centre, designed to engage and comfort the siblings of patients in the hospital, is set to open at BC Children's Hospital this winter (2020). The post Auxiliaries Support BC Children’s...
View ArticleRemembering Avery
The Avery Linton Legacy Foundation supports children's charities across the country, including an assortment of specialized assistive technology for the new Sunny Hill Health Center at BC Children's....
View ArticleA Lifetime of Compassion
Inspired by her son's health journey and her experience as a volunteer at BC Children's Hospital, Betty Stevens has made an extraordinary contribution to support leading-edge care today, and for the...
View ArticleHow Eating Local Helped Change Lives
Determined as ever to continue supporting the hospital’s world-leading orthopedic team, the deeply committed 2020 For Children We Care gala committee helped launch a new initiative called the Mid...
View ArticleAdvances in the Time of COVID-19
As cases of the COVID-19 virus began to surface across BC earlier this year, it wasn’t long before the entire province went into lockdown. Here at BC Children’s, experts mobilized to ensure that the...
View ArticleCameron’s Story: A childhood cancer story of love, loss and hope
BC Children’s Hospital is home to experts who are leading the way in treating the most aggressive cancers—but even so, a devastating 20 per cent of children who are diagnosed with cancer will not...
View ArticleNew CEO at BCCHF
BC Children’s Hospital Foundation has appointed Malcolm Berry as its next President & CEO, replacing Teri Nicholas (who is retiring), effective March 2021. The Foundation also welcomed Akash Rattan...
View ArticleMining for Miracles 2021 Launch
Mining for Miracles, the BC mining industry’s long-standing fundraising campaign for BC Children’s Hospital Foundation, launched its 2021 campaign in support of BC Children’s Hospital’s Cellular and...
View ArticleEscape From Quarantine
Through the Wormhole provides an all-new virtual escape room experience with proceeds in part benefitting BC Children's Hospital Foundation. The game takes players into a world where a vaccine for...
View ArticleRio Tinto supports COVID-19 mental health study
Rio Tinto is proud to support BC Children’s Hospital to help fund a new study led by pediatric mental health experts aimed at better understanding how the pandemic has impacted children’s mental...
View ArticleA miner with a heart of gold
Through their connection with Mining for Miracles, Brett and Carole Knelson have for years hosted an annual barbeque in support of BC Children’s—that is, until last year when the pandemic hit. Yet even...
View ArticleMental health in a pandemic
BC Children’s investigators Drs. Evelyn Stewart and Hasina Samji are leading an online survey to gauge how kids and adults are affected over time by COVID-19—with focus on the underserved or previously...
View ArticleWhen cancer strikes back
Inspired by generous support from the Michael Cuccione Foundation and the Murray family, researchers at BC Children’s Hospital are determined to find out why twenty per cent of children with cancer...
View ArticleConquering diabetes
Dr. Francis Lynn, a researcher at the Canucks for Kids Fund Childhood Diabetes Laboratories at BC Children’s, is on a quest to conquer diabetes. Find out how. The post Conquering diabetes appeared...
View ArticleQ&A with Malcolm Berry
A Q&A with the Foundation's new President & CEO, Malcolm Berry The post Q&A with Malcolm Berry appeared first on BC Children's Hospital Foundation.
View ArticleBig hearts, small packages
When 10-year-old Jonathan, or "Bear" as he's often called and his friend Landon Brown, 18, first learned about closed playrooms and limited visitors at BC Children’s Hospital due to the pandemic, their...
View ArticleOne mom’s mission
While Barbara Insley drove to work one morning in the spring of 2009, a woman on the radio suddenly caught her attention. Find out why and what action Barbara was inspired to take. The post One mom’s...
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