Help Us Win $10,000! Join the Great Canadian Giving Challenge! Every $1 donated to our charity IN JUNE through Canada Helps earns Moorelands a chance to win a $10,000 donation!!! Your giving challenge donation using this form can have a HUGE impact… just one dollar could help us send 10 kids to Moorelands Camp! Listen […]
Our awesome partners, the Jays Care Foundation, have partnered with us this past year to build our BLAST kids’ confidence and life-skills through baseball! On Sunday, May 20th, they invited every BLAST participant and their families out to watch the Toronto Blue Jays play a thrilling game at the Roger’s Centre! Jays Care threw our […]
The Annual Bay Street Volleyball Tournament, hosted by McCarthy Tétrault, took place on Wednesday, May 23, 2018, at Ashbridges Bay – and it was such a fantastic day! Organized by McCarthy Tétrault’s articling students, 19 Toronto law firms took part in the event to support Toronto kids affected by poverty through Moorelands Camp! It was so […]
On Saturday, May 12th, the awesome people from Jays Care Foundation came over to Flemingdon Park to host a Baseball Day for all three of our BLAST locations. We’re so grateful to Jays Care for their generosity and the time and effort they put into organising the competition. We’re also incredibly grateful to all of the […]
“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” Ken Blanchard Saturday, May 5th marked the annual leadership retreat for our Youth LED and VITAL participants. The leadership retreat is a chance for our middle school and high school participants to consolidate their leadership learnings, connect with their peers and demonstrate their growth through […]
Join host Piya Chattopadhyay at Reaching Out Through Music‘s 10th-anniversary concert Saturday, May 12th! A share of the proceeds from this fantastic night of classical music will benefit Moorelands Camp. Buy tickets:http://reachingoutthroughmusic.org/
The challenges – Kids need fresh air and exercise! Kids need to learn leadership and life skills! The solution – Kids need Moorelands Camp! As we have proudly reported over the past few months, Moorelands intends to celebrate the beginning of our second century of summer camp by creating the opportunity for about 150 more […]
Research shows that campers at residential camps take an average of almost 20,000 pedometer-recorded steps during full camp days… an antidote to summer sedentary behaviors among young people.[1] Technology puts major stress on the brain, inhibiting the ability to keep focussed. This affects goal orientation, task attention, and inhibition of unrelated activity or thought.[2] BUT […]
Despite past successes, our work is not done. Kids still need us. Toronto is still the Number #1 child poverty capital of Canada, and it’s on the rise in our very own backyard. That fact was echoed recently in Toronto Foundation’s 2017/2018 report, Toronto’s Vital Signs, indicating that child poverty is there and still hurting our […]
“At camp, I saw a different way of interacting – a different way to deal with problems. It gave me access to peace and tranquility; access to role models who I could trust.” Sandra Brown, Moorelands’ camper alumni Sandra Brown, nee Woodgate, recently got back in touch with Moorelands for the first time since her […]
“I was able to pay for my son to go to camp but that’s not the reality for all families. All kids deserve a break and that’s what they get at Moorelands.” As one of the newest members of Moorelands’ Century Club, Eunice Thomas has a long, rich history with Moorelands. Her connection began shortly […]
Dear Friends, 2017 has been a very full year, exploring why ‘Moorelands Matters’ to 1170 children and their families. We found new partners and continue to see our community and supporters grow. We launched a strategic directive to serve more youth. We “weathered” the challenge of having camp close for one session over the summer […]
John is the winner of our Moorelands Camp Story Contest! Check out his competition-winning submission below. Thank you to everyone who entered, there was stiff competition! My Moorelands Camp story begins when I was 13. Before coming to Moorelands, I had only been to one camp before – an underwhelming three-day school trip – that […]
We gratefully acknowledge the following donors whose gifts allow Moorelands to offer a leadership experience to Toronto’s disadvantaged kids. THANK YOU 2017 Donors! Patrons Circle ($100,000 + ) The Gale Family Leaders Circle ($50,000 +) Bill & Karen Barnett Mackenzie Investments Charitable Foundation Builders Circle ($20,000 +) Fossil Group Canada Jays Care Foundation Olivia and […]
