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The Foundation has created a number of funds to meet the unique needs of the children, youth, and families served by Family & Children's Services; needs not covered by child protection dollars. View the complete list of Funds below.

To learn more about donating your time, contributing financially or in-kind, call (519) 576-0540. Your gift will make a difference in the life of a child.

Children's Fund
The Children's Fund is the general fund for the Foundation. Gifts to this Fund allow the Foundation to designate the dollars where they are most needed.

Education Fund - making a difference through learning.
Dollars from the Education Fund enable the Agency to provide tutoring opportunities, school trips, even a new knapsack and school supplies for children who would otherwise go without. Our hope is to provide these children and youth with a rewarding learning experience, which will compliment our ongoing "stay in school" initiatives.

Life Adventures Fund - making a difference through recreation.
In 2004, Family & Children's Services Foundation launched a new Life Adventures campaign to ensure that summer is a time for all children and youth to discover new skills and interests and make new friends. By making an investment in this community's vulnerable children today through the Life Adventures Fund, you can give a child happier 'todays' and brighter 'tomorrows'.

Moving Forward Fund - making a difference through healing.
The special Fund was created to help expand the reach of the Sexual Abuse Treatment Program and to provide support through healing.

Scholarship Fund - making a difference for the future.
Family and Children's Services Foundation realizes the need to provide post secondary opportunities for those young people that continue their studies despite incredible hardships, both financially and emotionally, which could prevent youth from pursuing post secondary education. The Foundation wants to send the message to children in care, that if they work hard academically they will have the same educational opportunities as those children not in care. All scholarships are awarded at our Annual General Meeting in June.

Smile Makers Fund - making a difference one smile at a time.
The Smile Maker Fund was created by Family & Children's Services staffers to address the small but immediate needs of children in their on-going service families. The Fund helps to pay for extras like a winter jacket, a pillow, or school supplies. Funds are supplemental and families must make a contribution toward the purchase of the item(s), however minimal. To provide as many opportunities for 'smile making' as possible, there will be a limit of $100 per child each year. Staff members are the principal contributors to this unique fund.

Better Futures Fund - making a difference through enrichment.
The Better Futures Endowment Fund was created to allow children in the care of the Agency to enhance their skills and talents in areas of culture, the arts, and sports. The Fund was created in memory of three young women, Katinka Heine, Corneila Rauter, and Martina Van Katwijk, who died as result of a tragic traffic accident in 1985. "Our own girls were fortunate to grow up in families that had means to support them. These children don't have those financial means", says Myra Van Katwijk, mother of Martina. "There is comfort in knowing that even though you have lost a child, there is continuation". Gifts may be made to this very special fund by contacting the Foundation Office.

Other designation opportunities include: Emergency Fund, General Endowment Fund, Adoption Services, Family Support - Cambridge, Family Support - Kitchener Waterloo, Foster Care Fund, Residential Services/Group Homes, and Youth Services Fund

FCS Foundation Office
300 Ardelt Avenue,
Kitchener, ON N2L 2C9
Phone: (519) 576-0540
Fax: (519) 570-0160
foundation@facswaterloo.org