Calgary Children’s Foundation

• Pledge Day 2023 raises $177,000 for Calgary children’s charities

  QR Calgary's annual Pledge day raises funds for the Calgary Children’s Foundation and this year the live broadcast yielded a total of $177,000 in donations.

  Health

  Dec 2, 2023
  
• QR Calgary raising funds for 25 local organizations on Pledge Day 2023

  On Friday, join your favourite QR Calgary hosts broadcasting live from The Westin Calgary and help support local children’s charities.

  Health

  Dec 1, 2023
  
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• 770 CHQR exceeds fundraising goal during 2022 Pledge Day

  Since 1992, Pledge Day has raised money for small children's charities in the Calgary area that support kids at-risk and who need extra care.

  Canada

  Dec 1, 2022
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• Calgarians support children’s charities to the tune of $177k on 2021’s Pledge Day

  Last year, Calgarians pledged $290,000 for programs supporting children in need, a need that has continued in the second year of the pandemic.

  Canada

  Dec 3, 2021
• ‘A whole new world’: 7-year-old with spina bifida receives renovations, electric lift from ARK

  Accessibility Renovations for Kids partnered up with local tradesmen and the Calgary Children's Foundation to improve accessibility for a small girl with spina bifida.

  Canada

  May 21, 2021
• Pledge Day raises $290K for Calgary children’s charities during pandemic

  Donations to Pledge Day surpassed $290,000, all of which will go to children's charities in and around Calgary in 2021. “It’s nothing short of fantastic.”

  Canada

  Dec 3, 2020
• Calgary kids learn skills for life through Kid Food Nation program

  "We're noticing a lot of older kids not having these sort of fundamental cooking food literacy as they get into adulthood."

  Features

  Dec 5, 2019
• Pledge Day an opportunity to help Calgary kids that ‘fall through the cracks’

  Pledge Day is the only day the Calgary Children's Foundation makes a public call for donations to be disbursed to children's charities in the city.

  Canada

  Dec 5, 2019
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• Calgary charity donates ramp for young boy with cerebral palsy

  "We needed something and it became clear we weren't going to carry this 100 pound wheelchair and person everyday," Kurt Soparlo on the need for a replacement for their son's wheelchair ramp which was becoming unsafe to use.

  Features

  Dec 3, 2019
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• Calgary Children’s Foundation disburses Pledge Day funds to 30 charities

  Thirty children's charities in Calgary received over $265,000 in funds from the Calgary Children's Foundation.

  Canada

  May 14, 2019