Baycrest supporters made this our best year ever
Even as the economy struggles to get back on track, total revenues at Baycrest Foundation reached a record $37 million this past year.
This exceptional year was a reflection of the creative thinking, hard work and energy of our board, volunteers and staff.
It is also thanks to the dedicated and generous support of our community that Baycrest has evolved from a home for the Jewish elderly on Cecil Street to an internationally acclaimed academic health sciences centre.
Our breadth of clinical experience and leading-edge cognitive science has made us a driving force in innovations in aging. Baycrest provides the highest standards of care for aging parents and grandparents as we have always done and will continue to do.
We can all be proud of the past year’s accomplishments, as our fundraising strategies became even more innovative, borrowing from sports and entertainment. The fourth annual Scotiabank Pro-Am for Alzheimer’s charity hockey tournament raised $2.6 million for the Gordie & Colleen Howe Fund at Baycrest, which will support research and care into Alzheimer’s and related disorders. In 2010, Baycrest struck a strategic partnership with the Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories to expand this exciting event to Edmonton where we raised $1 million.
Dancing With Our Stars turned the traditional gala upside down, featuring community leaders as ballroom dancers. Not only did this unique event raise more than $1 million for Baycrest, but it garnered unprecedented media coverage.
With Lynn Posluns as its driving force, Women of Baycrest made waves with its mission to establish a chair at Baycrest to research women’s brain health and aging, raising $1 million in its first year.
We have extended our innovative Annual Campaign and the Circle of Honour, which was a great success. With their enthusiastic response, Baycrest supporters showed they understand the importance of multi-year Annual Campaign commitments, to provide funds we can rely on through the most difficult of economic times.
It has been humbling at many of our events to hear stories of how Alzheimer’s and other dementias have touched the lives of so many of our supporters. This has only further fueled our inspiration to find new and even more innovative strategies to help move Baycrest forward.
And so, as we work toward the future, we have every reason to be confident that the Baycrest community will show its support. With your help, we will continue to make an impact in Toronto, across Canada and internationally, creating results that will help today’s generation as well as those to come.
Warren Kimel
Chair, Baycrest Foundation
Board of Directors
Mark Gryfe
President,
Baycrest Foundation
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