Fundraising Priorities
Discover how your generosity helps to enhance patient care, drive medical innovation, and ensures Sunnybrook’s spaces and equipment match our expertise.

Donor support is essential to our work. It ignites innovation, drives research from bench to bedside, and enables us to care for patients and their families during their most critical moments. Join us in making a difference!

The Sunnybrook Impact Fund supports the most critical priorities across Sunnybrook, so we can be there for our patients and families when it matters most. This vital fund ignites Sunnybrook Foundation’s capacity to inspire lasting support for Sunnybrook’s patients, families and community.
It is essential to the health of Sunnybrook.
When you make a gift to the Sunnybrook Impact Fund, you advance life-changing programs, groundbreaking research and education, capital projects and patient-centred initiatives. Your generosity enables our high-performing teams to be responsive to emerging needs so when the unexpected occurs, we’re ready.
The limitless potential of the Sunnybrook Impact Fund is powered by the support of donors like you. Invest in the future of health care.

Sunnybrook is home to an innovative centre unlike any other in Canada, dedicated to understanding the intricate complexities of the human brain and advancing brave new discoveries for brain health.
The Garry Hurvitz Brain Sciences Centre provides a full spectrum of care from youth to late adulthood. Here, the best and brightest minds unite under one roof – enabling unprecedented collaboration and nurturing revolutionary approaches to the most complex brain disorders of our time. All made possible thanks to a leadership gift from Garry Hurvitz, which mobilized 7,000 donors and the Government of Ontario.
Donors like you can help open up new frontiers.

Sunnybrook is home to Canada’s largest, most advanced burn centre and only program to receive the prestigious American Burn Association accreditation. Yet after life-saving surgery, patients face lengthy wait times for reconstructive surgery.
Sunnybrook’s Ross Tilley Burn Centre has a critical need. A new specialized operating room will make it among few global centres with two operating rooms designated to life-saving acute surgeries and life-restoring reconstructive surgeries.
Patients in urgent need of advanced burn care count on Sunnybrook.
Donor support is critical to completing this project – help reach our fundraising goal.

At Sunnybrook, we recognize that cancer affects every aspect of life. With support from our Patient Experience Acceleration Fund, we can focus on holistic care tailored to each patient’s well-being.
This fund, established by donors in honor of Dr. Calvin Law’s decade-long leadership of the Odette Cancer Program, supports vital initiatives, including research, new technologies, and improved services.
Continued investment in the fund highlights our commitment to compassionate, patient-centered care, empowering practitioners from diverse backgrounds and stages to share innovative ideas that enhance the patient experience.

With people living longer, the need for comprehensive and coordinated seniors’ care is more urgent than ever before.
Sunnybrook is moving quickly to realize the Peter Cipriano Centre for Seniors Health, established by a lead gift from founding donor Peter Cipriano and generous support from our community.
This special and innovative space will be a hub of coordinated and personalized services organized around the needs of patients and families.

Building a better health system and community begins with our future leaders.
The Sunnybrook Program to Access Research Knowledge (SPARK) connects Black and Indigenous medical students to more career pathways and opportunities for building a career in medicine, while enhancing diversity across subspecialties.
This donor-supported initiative has made a tangible impact by building greater equity in health care. Now, it’s time to scale SPARK into a sustainable program.

Sunnybrook’s Veterans Centre is the largest in Canada, delivering exceptional care and experiences to Veterans of the Second World War, Korean War and Cold War.
Donor support for Sunnybrook’s Veterans Comfort Fund provides Veterans with the very best cognitive, physical, mental health, and stroke care – as well as memorable experiences to enhance their quality of life.
Your generosity also powers a critical renewal of the Veterans Centre.
Transparency and accountability are important to Sunnybrook Foundation, and we believe in keeping our valued donors informed about how their donations are being utilized. Visit our Impact Report and Financial Summary to learn more.

Our Programs
Discover how our programs are shaping the future of health care. From groundbreaking research to advanced technology and compassionate care, explore how we’re creating a healthier tomorrow for all.
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