Your Fundraiser Makes a Difference
Why Your Support Matters
Since you’re reading this right now, it’s clear that you want to help. We need people like you. When you donate or raise funds for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, you help ensure that more survivors come home to the people they love. Thanks to the money you raise and donate, we’re able to fund research that leads to medical breakthroughs, helping survivors recover faster and return home to their families sooner.
How the Heart and Stroke Foundation Helps Create More Survivors
We invested over $32 million in life-saving heart disease and stroke research in 2014, supporting more than 1,000 researchers across Canada.
We placed more than 8,000 life-saving automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in communities across Canada to increase someone’s chance of surviving cardiac arrest.
The Heart and Stroke Foundation funded the development of life-saving treatments that created 165,000 survivors last year.
Your Support Makes Things Happen
Jen's story of survival
Waking with a pounding headache, blurry vision and an unsteady walk, Jen tried calling in sick but couldn’t find the words. She emailed instead and went back to bed. But things got worse. Much worse. Unknowingly, Jen suffered a stroke. When her friends got her to the hospital, she couldn’t walk and spoke only three words. Thankfully, doctors saved her life; but stroke changed it. With speech and occupational therapy, Jen now enjoys life at a slower pace. She reads, solves puzzles, cooks, rests, does yoga and goes for walks. Stroke didn’t stop this dynamo — and she’s still making progress.
How Your Donation Helps
- Empower Canadians to make positive changes and prevent disease
- Save lives at the moment a health emergency strikes
- Promote recovery, where and when it’s needed
- Significantly improve the health of Canadians by decreasing their risk factors for heart disease and stroke by 10% by 2020
- Reduce Canadian’s rate of death from heart disease and stroke by 25% by 2020
We can’t do it alone
Please, help create more survivors by starting an event, joining an existing event, or sponsoring a participant today!