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Helping Us

The Children's Ability Fund has been working with our loyal donors for more than 50 years to develop a greater understanding of the needs of people with disabilities throughout Edmonton and northern Alberta. With your help, we have been instrumental in providing assistance to hundreds of individuals and many groups and organizations. Over the last ten years more than 2 million dollars has been granted for equipment... but the need continues and we need your help!


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There are several ways you can contribute to the Children's Ability Fund
       Donate to our annual campaign
       Join the Monthly Donation Program
       Add to the Bursary Fund
       Contribute to the Endowment Fund
       Donate a gift-in-kind
       Be an Event Sponsor

       Participate in the Planned Giving Program

Donate to the ANNUAL CAMPAIGN

Each year we ask our loyal donors to assist us with their continued support by making an annual contribution. With ongoing funding we are able to make a difference in the life of a person with a disability like Richard…

Richard using the communication device Hi! My name is Richard. You've never met me, but I'm one of the many people helped by the Children's Ability Fund. I am writing because I want to help this very special organization raise more                                 money this year than ever before.

When I was just one year old, I had a stroke. This left me with a brain injury and in a wheelchair. I cannot speak much at all - but I have so much to say! For 9 years I used a Touch Talker to help me communicate with my family and friends. After awhile it kept breaking down. I was so good at typing it couldn't keep up to me!

When I started high school. I was so nervous. I was going to be meeting new friends and wanted to make sure I could talk to them so they could get to know me.

That's when I wrote to the Children's Ability Fund and asked them to help buy a new talking device. The one that I really liked was called the Delta Talker. I knew it would help me learn, meet new friends and become more independent.

Now so many great things have happened! I have my new talking device and have met many new friends at my school. I really enjoy visiting with them and I like to answer questions in class. My teachers say I am a good student, especially in science and math. This could not have happened without help from the Children's Ability Fund.

They have helped so many people like me. Now, I want others to feel as great as I do. Please help them help others. Make a donation today. Your donation will make a big difference to others - just like it did for me.

Thank you for reading my letter. Maybe someday I can show you my new talker.

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Add to the Bursary Fund


Some friends of the Children's Ability Fund chose to make a donation specifically to assist students with a disability. The Bursary Fund was established to ensure a continued commitment to providing an annual bursary to students in need through the               Children's Ability Fund Bursary.




Contribute to the Endowment Fund

Cassie talks using her toes on her Vanguard In 1987, the Endowment Fund was established to ensure the continuity and longevity of the organization and its goals and to ensure that the resources would be available to meet the growing demand our economy has placed on non-profit organizations to provide funding for the necessary equipment to people with disabilities.

Our target is $5,000,000 and we are happy to report that we have reached the half way mark.

Donations made directly through the Endowment Fund and received through the Planned Giving Program are invested and the resources are used to ensure the long-term financial stability of the Children's Ability Fund.

Donate a Gift in Kind

Cash donations are not the only way to contribute...

Other suggestions are:

Donate a prize to be given away at one of our special events
Donate services to be used in house or given away as a prize
Start an employee/employer matching grant program
Offer employees paid time off to volunteer
Hold a fun company event and donate the proceeds
Be a Shining Star

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Be an Event Sponsor

See our special opportunities...

Participate in the Planned Giving... leave a long term gift.                                                                 

There are many ways to leave a lasting legacy like...

Outright Gifts...

Outright gifts - either of cash or other property - provide support for the Children's Ability Fund's programs for individuals and groups, like the Playground Project and the Bikes for Tykes Project.

There are many ways of making outright gifts, they share a common characteristic, they can used as soon as the gift is made.

  • Giving cash - whether by cheque, money order,     credit card or currency - is the most familiar way to     contribute to the Children's Ability Fund.
  • Giving appreciated property like stocks and bonds is becoming a more widely used     means of donating to a charity especially because of the favorable tax implications.
  • Giving a gift of a Certified Cultural Property allows donors special tax     considerations (there are also special guidelines that must be adhered to.)

Future Gifts...

Many people who would like to make a gift to charity cannot afford to during their lifetime. There are other ways of ensuring that those charities that are dear to you will receive a donation on your behalf.

  • Giving through your will. There are several alternatives for donating to a charity     through your will; a general bequest, a specific bequest, a residual bequest     designates, or a contingent bequest.
  • Life Insurance. There are several ways to make a future gift to a charity through     the purchase of a life insurance policy.

Gifts that Give Back...

Colin and Vista are our first team to have benefited from the New Leash on Life program. Vista is a golden retriever who has been trained as a guide dog and is now Colin's constant companion. She watchfully guides him through the hallways of Grant McEwan College, getting him safely to his destination. He is enrolled in a degree program majoring in Political Sceince. Upon completion, he hopes to enroll in the Faculty of Law. Gifts that provide lifetime income to a donor are a type of future gift. Some examples are:
  • gift annuities
  • charitable
  • remainder trusts
  • gifts of residual interest

Changes to the federal tax legislation have created more giving opportunities than ever before.



Donation Contact Info

For more information about our planned giving program, please contact:

Carol Russ
Excutive Director
Children's Ability Fund
(780) 454-9191

Donor Bill of Rights

    Link to the Donor Bill of Rights document...



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