A community where every child and youth has the opportunity to participate, learn, and grow to build a brighter future.
Our Mission
We are passionately committed to enhancing the well-being of children and youth by connecting them to experiences and supports that contribute to their sense of belonging and help them to reach their full potential.
Our Values
Fun: Fun is who we are. Kindness, collaboration, and creativity is how we do it.
Equity: Belonging, respect and inclusion are at the core of what we do.
Community: Impact is measured in stories and experiences of hope, happiness, and enhanced well-being.
Accountability:Their futures deserve our honesty, transparency, and integrity.
Sustainability: Our actions and decisions will build financial strength, organizational health, and brighter futures.
Building Brighter Futures
The Children’s Foundation of Guelph and Wellington is a local organization helping local families. Life can be challenging when there is barely enough money to cover basic human essentials like housing and proper nutrition. For many families in Guelph and Wellington the reality is that they have ‘just barely enough’ to look after their basic needs. We also know that for many families in our community, ‘just barely enough’ seems like a luxury.
Life is also an opportunity. Positive and rewarding experiences during key developmental years in childhood and adolescence can shape a child’s future and help break cycles of hardship. Together with our donors, volunteers and community partners we find opportunities in the hard times so that we can help each child grow, explore and unleash their great potential. We invest in children today through food security, access to recreation and life-skill activities, mental health and educational support, and holiday assistance.
More than 3,000 volunteers work with the Foundation in one way or another. To best serve our community, the CFGW works closely with social service agencies, local municipalities, school boards and other organizations.
Your support of the Children’s Foundation of Guelph and Wellington is an investment in the health and future of our community, an investment in brighter futures.
In our world, opportunity outshines hardship every time.
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Our Vision
A community where every child and youth has the opportunity to participate, learn, and grow to build a brighter future.
Our Mission
We are passionately committed to enhancing the well-being of children and youth by connecting them to experiences and supports that contribute to their sense of belonging and help them to reach their full potential.
Our Values
Building Brighter Futures
The Children’s Foundation of Guelph and Wellington is a local organization helping local families. Life can be challenging when there is barely enough money to cover basic human essentials like housing and proper nutrition. For many families in Guelph and Wellington the reality is that they have ‘just barely enough’ to look after their basic needs. We also know that for many families in our community, ‘just barely enough’ seems like a luxury.
Life is also an opportunity. Positive and rewarding experiences during key developmental years in childhood and adolescence can shape a child’s future and help break cycles of hardship. Together with our donors, volunteers and community partners we find opportunities in the hard times so that we can help each child grow, explore and unleash their great potential. We invest in children today through food security, access to recreation and life-skill activities, mental health and educational support, and holiday assistance.
More than 3,000 volunteers work with the Foundation in one way or another. To best serve our community, the CFGW works closely with social service agencies, local municipalities, school boards and other organizations.
Your support of the Children’s Foundation of Guelph and Wellington is an investment in the health and future of our community, an investment in brighter futures.