Making our funds work to help

On July 4, 1873, citizens concerned for both the welfare of animals and children founded the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Ontario SPCA). Several years later, the Children’s Aid Society was established as a separate organization and the Ontario SPCA’s primary focus became bringing animal cruelty cases to the attention of authorities.

In 1887, the Ontario SPCA’s lobbying efforts resulted in a decision by the Ontario Board of Police Commissioners to appoint a police officer to deal with animal cruelty issues on a full-time basis. In 1919, the first legislation was passed to protect animals. The Ontario SPCA’s Inspectors and Agents were given authority by the government, through the Ontario SPCA Act, to investigate situations involving animal abuse.

In 1955, the Government of Ontario repealed the Act of 1919 and replaced it with new legislation. Inspectors and Agents were granted the power to enter property, to carry out investigations and given broader powers to remove animals that were believed to be in distress or in need of care and attention. In order to obtain enforcement powers, many independent societies affiliated with the Ontario SPCA, enabling the Society to become a larger, more linked group that could affect better humane laws and conditions.

In 2008 the first comprehensive amendment to the Ontario SPCA Act since its inception passed, transforming Ontario’s weak animal protection laws into some of the toughest animal protection laws in the country.

Today the Society is comprised of more than 50 Ontario SPCA Communities providing animal protection, rehabilitation and care; advocacy and humane education in neighbourhoods across the province.

The Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada is the authority on wish granting in our country.  With 25 years of wish granting, and over 15,000 wishes behind us, we have fulfilled more wishes for children in Canada than any other wish granting agency.

What began in 1983, on the kitchen table of an inspired and committed volunteer, named Laura Cole, has blossomed into a national organization with chapters in every province.  From humble beginnings granting fewer than 20 wishes a year The Foundation has established the capacity to fulfill upwards of 800 wishes annually.

The Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada is extremely proud of the fact that we have never denied an eligible child a wish and that we have been able to fulfill some of the most complex wishes imaginable.

Granting wishes to children with high-risk life-threatening illnesses is our primary line of business and the most powerful way in which The Children’s Wish Foundation fulfils its mandate. Staff and volunteers work tirelessly to maintain the highest quality of service to our wish families with attention to the most minute details so as to ensure the total satisfaction of each and every wish child.

We owe our success to the hundreds of thousands of Canadians who have contributed their time, talents and money over the years to help us make wishes come true.

CARE is Canada’s global force dedicated to defending dignity and fighting poverty by empowering the world’s most vulnerable and greatest resource for change : women and girls. We proudly partner with Canadians from coast to coast, and in the communities in which we work, to make this goal a reality.

Mission
CARE Canada’s mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global diversity, resources and experience, we promote innovative solutions and are advocates for global responsibility. We facilitate lasting change by:
• Strengthening capacity for self-help;
• Influencing policy decisions at all levels;
• Providing economic opportunity;
• Addressing discrimination in all its forms;
• Delivering relief in emergencies.
Guided by the aspirations of local communities, we pursue our mission with both excellence and compassion because the people whom we serve deserve nothing less.

Vision
We seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security.

CARE Canada will be a global force and a partner of choice within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty. We will be known everywhere for our unshakable commitment to the dignity of people.