Our key donors
The Albert and Temmy Latner Family Foundation
The Latner family's foundation funded the establishment of the Centre and gave us the money to move into our current home on Murray Street. The foundation's continued support pays for much of our infrastructure, and is also helping to fund some of the Centre's research activities.
The Fine Family
The Golda Fine Memorial Academic Award was founded in 2005 by the Fine Family in memory of Golda Fine. The Fine Family recognized the need for academic development, and now provide an annual award to honour local, provincial, national or international inter-disciplinary health care providers or academics who are working in the field of palliative care. Award winners spend 2-3 months at the Temmy Latner Centre to learn and teach.
Recent winners of the award include:
2006-07 Dr. Larry Librach and Marg Poling MSN
2007-08 Susanna Edwards MSN PhD and Dr. Adam Rapoport
2008-09 Dr. Albert J. Kirshen and Dr. Kevin Bezanson
2009-10 Dr. Russell Goldman
2010-11 Dr. Kaveh Shojania
2011-12 Heather O'Brien, Ceilidh Eaton Russell and Dr. Adam Rapoport
The Kelly Family
The Kelly family funded the establishment of our dedicated teaching facility, The Cathy Kelly Learning Centre. This state-of-art learning centre is used extensively for education sessions with students and teleconferences with colleagues in palliative care from around the world.
The Wolfe Family
The Wolfe family supported the establishment of the Max and Beatrice Wolfe Children's Centre. The family's grant was initially given to fund the provision of palliative care to children in their homes, but has since expanded to include work in grief counselling and education around coping with death. The Max and Beatrice Wolfe Children's Centre has since closed, transitioning to a new stand-alone organization.
The Dr. Jay Charitable Foundation
The Dr. Jay Charitable Foundation support allowed for the creation of our Dr. Jay Children's Grief Program as part of our Max and Beatrice Wolfe Children's Centre. The program was devoted to teaching families and children to deal with grief, dying and the healing process. The foundation also support Camp Erin Toronto. This program has now evolved in Dr.Jay's Children's Grief Centre.
The Moyer Foundation
The Moyer Foundation was established by Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jamie Moyer and his wife Karen to address the needs of children in distress. The Moyer Foundation's grant enabled us to be the first to run the Camp Erin Toronto annual weekend-long bereavement camp for children and youth.
KRG Children's Charitable Foundation
The KRG Children's Charitable Foundation - a foundation committed to raise much-needed funds for children's charities - financially supported the development of a grief support group program for youth aged 14- 18 years. The program was designed to enrich the lives of the teens who participate, and give them the opportunity to create connections with others going through similar experiences.
