Here at the Old Mill Group, we know that family and children are the most precious connections in life. We are proud corporate sponsors of SickKids Foundation. This page was developed to share information with you about the great work that SickKids is involved in and to allow a platform for you to make donations. You can read more and find further information by visiting www.sickkidsfoundation.com.

About SickKids Foundation

SickKids Foundation’s mission: To inspire our communities to invest in health and scientific advances to improve the lives of children and their families in Canada and around the world.

SickKids Foundation vision: Healthier Children. A Better World.™

Established in 1972, SickKids Foundation raises funds on behalf of The Hospital for Sick Children. (SickKids)

The Foundation’s fundraising is driven by the belief that improving the health and well-being of children is one of the most powerful ways to improve society

Community support, separate and distinct from government and granting agencies, is a critical source of funding for SickKids.

In the fiscal year that ended March 31, 2011, SickKids Foundation invested $61.9 million in child health research, learning and care

$57.9 million of that investment went to critical initiatives at SickKids and $4 million went to national, international and other initiatives

Some Facts about SickKids Foundation:

• SickKids invented Pabulum
  • There are more than 100,000 patients who rely on the life-saving care provided at SickKids each year.
  • Over 50,000 children visit the SickKids Emergency Department each year
  • Canada’s #1 Children’s Hospital – ranked in top three  paediatric hospitals worldwide
  • SickKids has the only dedicated paediatric cardiac critical care unit in Canada
  • SickKids is Canada’s largest, hospital-based child health research institute
  • SickKids has the only research laboratory in Canada dedicated to paediatric brain tumour research.
  • SickKids provides lifesaving cardiac care for newborns with some of the most severe heart defects in Ontario
  • SickKids is the only children’s hospital in Ontario that provides bone marrow transplantation (BMT).

It takes a community

From frontline caregivers to support staff, families, researchers, fundraisers and donors, we each play an important role in providing children with a healthier future.

• more than 100,000 patients each year
• more than 8,000 SickKids staff
• thousands of volunteers and donors

Thanks to cutting-edge breakthroughs in child health research, learning and care, we changed the past. With your donation, we will change the future.

By donating to SickKids, you enhance the care patients receive. You provide outstanding learning opportunities for staff and future generations of health-care professionals. And, you fund ground breaking research that will lead to new discoveries, treatments and cures.