OCH Foundation for Healthy Communities

We are excited to announce that this week, Barristers for a Better Bytown, will be matching all donations up to $2,500 to the OCH Foundation Annual Giving Campaign. Your donations https://bit.ly/30pSub4 allow us to continue the work we do in our communities.

This year we delivered 100+ bikes, helmets, and locks to children in our Ottawa Community Housing - OCH communities. You’re donations will help us give the gift of a bike to a child in 2022!

We want to thank Desjardins for their generosity this week in matching all donations made to the OCH Foundation for our Annual Giving Campaign. We exceeded our goal this week. Thank you, our Ottawa community for your generosity and support for the work we do in our OCH community.

Nous sommes heureux d'avoir été choisis comme l'un des récipiendaires communautaires dans le cadre de la Campagne de partage Desjardins de 100 000$, afin de nous appuyer avec notre Campagne de dons annuels! Merci Desjardins

We are delighted to have been selected as one of the community recipients in this year's 100 000$ Desjardins Cares Campaign, in support of our Annual Giving Campaign! Thank you Desjardins

Every donation https://bit.ly/3y9UUa9 made to the OCH Foundation will be matched, up to $2,000, this week. Your donations allow us to continue the work we do in our OCH community.

OCH Foundation for Healthy Communities on Twitter “Thanks to a grant from the Ottawa Sport Council Foundation we distributed $1,500 in sport equipment this summer to young people living in communities. The result - happier, more physically active kids. Thanks for your support! https://t.co/iowbOmj1p...

We are excited to announce Myers Kanata as the Hole in One sponsor for our OCH Foundation Charity Golf Tournament. This week is the last week to sponsor our tournament so head over to https://bit.ly/3jD7UPR and take a look at our sponsorship opportunities, there are a few left!

We are excited to share with you that Tuner and Townsend will be our Dinner Sponsor for our OCH Foundation Charity Golf Tournament. There are only a few sponsorship opportunities https://bit.ly/3yfRaCp left! We can't wait to see you out on the course!

We want to share some exciting news as we prepare for the 2022 cohort of Youth Futures participants and mentors. RBC Foundation and Launch has committed $150,000 for two years towards the Youth Futures Program. RBC Future Launch is dedicated to help young people access meaningful employment through practical work experience, skills development, networking, and access to mental well-being supports and services. They want young people to feel better prepared for the future of work through programming and resources that keep them ready for the future.

Last week we celebrated the 2021 cohort of Youth Futures participants. We are so incredibly proud of each and every one of them for overcoming the adversity of these unprecedented times. We are amazed by their commitment and hard work to complete the program. Youth Futures breaks down barriers to post-secondary education and employment faced by marginalized youth in Ottawa and is delivered at no charge to participants. The commitment from RBC will allow us to provide more focused skills development, mentorship and leadership opportunities to future Youth Future participants.

Thank you RBC. We are excited to be a part of the and working with your organization to help youth in our Ottawa community prepare for post secondary education and secure meaningful employment opportunities.

A great team effort

STAPLES/KIWANIS – 2020 START TO SMART SCHOOL DRIVE
On Wednesday, November 18, 2020, the Kiwanis Club of Ottawa West and the management team of South Keys Staples met to celebrate the handing over of 17 Chromebooks to both the Ottawa-East and the Carlington Community Health Centres to be donated to children living in Ottawa Community Housing . This is the culmination of the first Staples/Kiwanis joint project launched in 2020 called “Start to Smart School” in which Staples matched all their Ontario Stores with a Kiwanis club in a joint effort to collect funds at their cash registers on behalf of the local Kiwanis Club. In this joint “Back to School” program to help children have tools necessary for them to learn, theKiwanis Club of Ottawa West was matched with the South Keys Staples store. Theyhanded over to Ottawa West gift cards in the amount of $5,589.10 which allowed us to purchase the 17 Chromebooks. Undoubtedly,this was a win win project for the children, both Community Health Centres, Staples, Kiwanis clubs and Ottawa Housing Foundation. We certainly look forward to joining Staples in thismeaningful fun-venture next year.
In the picture from left to right are: Urge Ibrahim, South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre – Supervisor of Children & Youth programing; Wayne French, Chair, Board of Directors, Ottawa Community Housing Foundation (OCHF); Anita MacLean, Chair, Community Service, Ottawa West Kiwanis Club(OWKC); Angela Begin, A/Executive Director OCHF; Paul McCumber, Treasurer, OWKC; Sue Hackett, A/General Manager, Staples South Keys; William Brown, Staples employee; Faye Beaufort , A/President OWKC; Cam MacLeod, Executive Director, Carlington Community Health Centre; and Rose VandenbergStaples’Cashier extraordinaire. (Photographer – our LG Gary Coulombe – Manotick KC). (Submitted by F. Beaufort OWKC)