A 12 months of Giving Again

As Giving Tuesday approaches, we at TuGo are reflecting on the final 12 months and the way we’ve been capable of help native communities throughout Canada. It’s one in all our core values, and we guarantee all our workers perceive its which means to our group. Giving Tuesday is a day devoted to giving again in any approach potential, recognizing that each contribution, large or small, could make a big distinction! 

Listed below are some highlights of how we gave again over the previous 12 months: 

Easter Seals Canada: Our Social Accountability Companion

In April, we introduced our partnership with Easter Seals Canada, Canada’s largest native supplier of packages, providers, and growth for the incapacity group. This collaboration entails our monetary backing for Easter Seals packages and providers, and encourages our workers to volunteer of their varied initiatives throughout Canada. 

Enjoyable at Easter Seals Camp Squamish

Throughout this previous summer time, a few of our workers drove to the Easter Seals Camp Squamish to volunteer at their household camp weekend. They not solely bought soaked by a shock water battle, however really loved assembly the employees who make the camp so particular, and the households who profit from camp.

Easter Seals Drop Zone Problem

In September, we took our volunteering efforts to new heights on the annual Easter Seals Drop Zone Problem. This initiative known as for daring people to rappel down towering constructions throughout BC, to boost funds and unfold consciousness for folks with disabilities throughout Canada. TuGo workers helped out with reception and getting members to the drop zone safely, in three Decrease Mainland places. 

Backpacks for YWCA

This August, our Richmond workplace got here collectively to pack a number of backpacks with important faculty provides for teenagers from the YWCA Eyrie Home. The Eyrie Home is a girls’s transition home in Metro Vancouver, offering a secure haven for households fleeing violence. Giving again and setting these youngsters up for fulfillment within the new faculty 12 months was an honour! 

Richmond Meals Financial institution

Over time, our devoted workers have taken time away from their desks to help on the Richmond Meals Financial institution, near our head workplace. With a rising variety of Canadians counting on meals banks, particularly throughout these difficult instances, serving to to pack bins and provides for these going through meals insecurity helped us present group help the place it was wanted. 

Wildfires in BC and Northwest Territories

The devastating influence of the wildfires in BC and Northwest Territories moved us deeply. We felt compelled to supply our help, so TuGo contributed $10,000 to the Canadian Crimson Cross to assist their reduction efforts in the direction of the wildfires. 

Mike Starko Problem

A number of workers participated on this 12 months’s second annual Mike Starko Problem, via TuGo’s Worker Volunteer Program (EVP). The problem celebrates the late Mike Starko’s philanthropic legacy by encouraging everybody to get energetic and fundraise, with all donations to Proper to Play Canada.  

TuGo’s Worker Volunteer Program

Our EVP helps workers with donation funds that go in the direction of vital causes that particular person workers take part in. It’s been nice to see our workers have enjoyable giving again to the group. Our aim is to proceed discovering inventive methods to offer again and help vital causes in our native communities.  

Wish to learn extra about how we’ve given again over time? Take a look at: TuGo’s Annual Vacation Hampers for WestCoast Households and Giving Tuesday: TuGo Provides Again.  

Completely satisfied volunteering,
Monique