Welcome to the Federated Health Charities Campaign
Federated Health Charities is a workplace charitable campaign that allows members of the Ontario Public Service (OPS) across Ontario to support up to 16 health charities through payroll deductions, donations and special events. Since it was established in 1983, you have donated over $34.5-million to help fund the search for treatments and cures, and to improve the quality of life for people struggling with life-changing illness.
In this site, you'll find information about the campaign and each of the 16 vital charities it supports. Please, come in and look around!
A message from the Honourary Campaign Chair Chisanga Puta-Chekwe
This year’s Federated Health Charities Campaign poster asks the question, “What’s a cure worth?”
For those who are dealing with one of the 16 life-threatening diseases targeted by the Federated Health Charities Campaign, the answer may well be “everything”. Few things can alter our lives as profoundly as these diseases. Illness changes everything – from the way we are able to live in the present to our prospects for the future.
For most of us, this is not just an abstract concern. Three out of every four Canadians currently die from one or more of these 16 diseases. This means that, at some time in the future, most of us will need help from one of the 16 charities funded by Federated Health. And, as our population ages, more people will require help unless cures and better treatments are found. So we must make sure the ability of these charities to provide that help continues to grow, too.
Over the past 28 years, members of the OPS have donated $34.5 million through the Federated Health Charities Campaign, with $2.45-million of this being raised last year! These funds have been used to: further research into cures and better treatments; support people and their families living with these illnesses; and educate all of us about healthy living strategies.
That is truly a remarkable accomplishment for a charity created by and for the OPS, and something of which we can be extremely proud. Congratulations, and thank you for your outstanding support.
This year, I urge you to continue our tradition of extraordinary generosity by donating to the Federated Health Charities Campaign, so that the 16 charities they fund can continue their important work.
Chisanga Puta-Chekwe is Deputy Minister, Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration
