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What is "Leave A Legacy"?
May is Leave A Legacy month. But what does that mean?* Almost everyone has a favourite charity. The reasons why a charity is close to your heart are as varied as the charities themselves. LEAVE A LEGACY™ is a public awareness campaign that promotes the benefits of...
Workshop for Leave A Legacy Month
The Aberdeen Health Foundation is pleased to be partnering to bring this special learning opportunity to our community. This presentation is geared toward staff, volunteers, and Board members of registered charities. A great opportunity to learn how to harness the...
Making a Difference in the Lives that Follow
Bob Porter was a man who enjoyed helping others, and although he supported many causes and charities, he often didn’t want recognition for his good deeds. “Bob was the type of person that if he saw anybody who needed anything, he would for sure give it without even...
Clara Hughes comes to Pictou County
Through the Sandbar Mental Health Endowment, we were pleased to partner to bring Clara's Big Bike Ride to Pictou County. Olympian Clara Hughes is riding across the country to talk about her own experience with mental illness, raise awareness, and challenge the stigma...
Judy's Gift
“My gift to the Aberdeen Health Foundation is for my family, my friends, my neighbours. I’m just an everyday person – of ordinary, not extraordinary means, but I give what I can every year because I want to pay it forward.”
AGM Keynote
The following is the keynote address delivered at the Aberdeen Health Foundation Annual General Meeting, February 27, 2014, by Murray Hill, Chair of the Pictou County Health Authority I want to thank the Aberdeen Health Foundation for the opportunity to speak at this,...
Report to Community
Report to Community for 2013 (Issued Feb 2014) PDF Download (4.6MB)
Dr. Johnnie Miles Williston
Tegan is a young girl with autism who was late in beginning to speak. Since joining the EIBI program at the Aberdeen Hospital in the past year, Tegan has already learned how to read very well on her own, and is now reading above her age and grade.
Children’s Aid Society Endowment
The Children’s Aid Society (CAS) Endowment funds projects that protect children, enhance supports and services for families at risk, and create legacy projects to commemorate the former Children’s Aid Society of Pictou County.
Four Organizations Receive Funds from Foundation
Four organizations in Pictou County are the recipients of funding from the Aberdeen Health Foundation’s newest endowment. The Children’s Aid Society (CAS) Endowment Fund was established through a $1 million gift from the former Children’s Aid Society of Pictou County....
Tree of Life Supports Women's Health
The Shoppers Drug Mart Tree of Life Campaign has raised critical funds for women’s health initiatives in Pictou County. The Tree of Life Campaign is national in scope, but funds raised at the Pictou County stores are directed locally. The campaign offers patients,...
CAS Endowment Applications Open
The Aberdeen Health Foundation wishes to remind agencies of the upcoming February 28 deadline for applications for the Children's Aid Society (CAS) Endowment Fund*. The fund is intended to support projects that protect children, and enhance supports and services for...
New Incubator on Miracle Day
Miracle Day is the first Wednesday in December - that's the day CIBC Wood Gundy Investment Advisors and CIBC's wholesale banking arm donate their fees and commissions in support of children's charities. This year, Howard Anderson and Dave Whittemore of CIBC Wood Gundy...
Gifts for Kids
A train set, colouring books, puzzles, and story books are all part of a delightful gift the Aberdeen Health Foundation recently received for the pediatric unit. The thoughtful gift was presented by Mae Bigney, of Teach Me Educational Resources Outlet at Highland...
Breast Health Winners
In October, in celebration of Breast Health Awareness Month, the Mammo Unit at the Aberdeen Hospital was inviting people to drop by for information on breast screening. Everyone with a mammogram in October was entered for a chance to win prizes donated by local...
New Endowment Fund to Aid Children Announced
The Aberdeen Health Foundation has announced details for a new endowment fund that will support projects that protect children, enhance supports and services for at risk families, and create legacy projects to commemorate the former Children’s Aid Society of Pictou...
Sandbar Endowment for Mental Health
“To four generations of our family, the Point 44 sandbar was a very special place. With limited public access, it was exquisitely quiet and pristine. Although only a few hundred yards offshore, the beauty and peacefulness made it seem as if one’s troubles were miles...
Kinnette Club Gives to Sandbar
The Kinette Club of New Glasgow continues to support our community, always looking for an opportunity to improve the lives of others. They recently heard about the Sandbar Mental Health Endowment and wanted to learn more about the needs in the community and made a...
Investors Group Financial donates $1,000 to AHF
Susan Malcolm, Executive Director of the Aberdeen Health Foundation said, "Gifts from our community, like Investors Financial Group, help us provide consistent financial support for health care initiatives in our community." Investors Group Financial Services Inc....
Supporting the Caregivers
Bain Langley Palliative Care Education Endowment
“Thanks to the Bain Langley Palliative Education Endowment, we as health care providers have been given the opportunity to further our education, which in these times of fiscal restraints would not otherwise be possible.”
~ Bonnie Mason