Our heartfelt thanks to those donors and sponsors who have gone above and beyond. We greatly appreciate your support in helping us achieve our mission, which is to lead in eliminating heart disease and stroke and reducing their impact through the advancement of research and its application, the promotion of healthy living, and advocacy.

Campaign of Caring Endowment Fund donors

Paul Albrechtsen Fund

For more information on the Campaign of Caring or how to set up your own fund, click here.

Sponsorship & Grants

Cargill - Sponsor of Nutrition Month

Great West Life Assurance Company - $7,500 for Dr. Hans Krueger's Economic Analysis on Healthy Living

Manitoba Canola Growers - Sponsor of the Heart Smart Home Cooking Segments on Shaw

Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame - $9,450 in support of our AED program

Qualico Group of Companies - $20,000 sponsorship of our Door-to-Door campaign

sanofi-aventis - $2,500 sponsorship of our Research Reception

sanofi-aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb
   - $20,000 for our Heart Attack and Back manual and the printing of two cardiac brochures
   - $5,000 toward the Northern Acute Stroke Workshop

Media Sponsors:
CTV
Golden West Radio
Winnipeg Free Press

AED Sponsorship:
A $1 million contribution to the Heart&Stroke Restart a Heart, Restart a Life™ national Automated External Defibrillator (AED) program by the Boston Pizza Foundation made the placement of 10 AEDs in Manitoba possible. The entire $1 million contribution supports the allocation, training and installation of 200 AEDs across the country over the next five years. They are being placed in public places such as community centres, sports arenas, and shopping malls. Criteria for determining community areas most in need include emergency response times, the potential of higher incidence of sudden cardiac arrests in large public spaces, and local readiness to support a public access defibrillator program.

The AEDs were placed in Winnipeg at Creative Retirement, Perimeter Aviation, The Golf Dome, and Hope Centre Health Care; in Portage la Prairie at William Glesby Centre; in Selkirk at St. Andrews Recreation Centre; in Morden at Morden Friendship & Senior Services Activity Centre; in Brandon at Brandon University Athletic Department; and in Thompson at Norplex Pool. In the first year, training and equipment will be provided. Six to eight trained personnel will be available at each AED location to assist someone who is having a cardiac arrest.

 
Morden Presentation

Brandon Presentation

Portage Presentation

To learn about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Noni Rosenblat, Senior Relationships Manager at 949.2028.

Major Gifts

London Drugs - $2500 in support of the area of greatest need

Premier Printing Limited - $2,500 in support of Research and Cardiac Care 

Scott Kitching $2,500 – in support of our mission

John Nieradka $2,800 in support of our mission

Elsie Denchak $4,000 – in support of research

Lorna & Dorothy Day $4,975 in support of our mission

Brian Hastings $5,000 – in support of our mission

McCaine Electric $5,000 – in support of our mission

Johnson Group $5,000 – in support of the area of greatest need

Eastern Chrysler – Joe Rewucki Family $7,500 - in support of Research

RBC Foundation $10,000 – in support of the Northern Outreach Program

Individual donor contributions through the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba $14,000 – in support of HSFM mission

Terracon Developments – accumulative contributions over the past 20 years $ 17,500 – in support of Heart and Stroke Research

Didzus Zyzens $20,000 – in support of Research

Veron Consultants $25,000 – in support of Research

Arthur Elias $500,000 – in support of the area of greatest need and Research

To make a major gift to the Foundation, please contact Bill Mowat, Major Gifts Manager at 949.2021.

Live Red Events

The 17th Annual Gimli Golf Tournament

(From L to R are: Amber Pohl, Laura Sigmundson, Bev Stevens, Wally Shewchuk, and Debbie Brown)