Support our work
We go where families already are.
Fondation Mir Héritage runs four programmes across Waterloo Region. Our programme budget for the year is $16,700. You can give to the whole year, to one programme, or to whatever we need most.
Children's Gift Programme
200 children, every age band
Cost $7,000 · Raised $100
Community Voices
Three policy dialogue sessions
Cost $4,500 · Raised $0
Civic Access
Six community awareness sessions
Cost $3,600 · Raised $0
Community Wellbeing Table
Four full days, multilingual
Cost $1,600 · Raised $0
| Programme | This year | Cost | Raised |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Gift Programme | 200 children, every age band | $7,000 | $100 |
| Community Voices | Three policy dialogue sessions | $4,500 | $0 |
| Civic Access | Six community awareness sessions | $3,600 | $0 |
| Community Wellbeing Table | Four full days, multilingual | $1,600 | $0 |
What a gift does
- $35 — a gift for one child.
- $105 — three children, roughly one family.
- $350 — a whole age band of ten.
- $400 — one day of the wellbeing table.
- $600 — one Civic Access session.
- $1,500 — one Community Voices session.
$30 a month — ten children a year, or most of a Civic Access session. Monthly giving is worth more to us than its size suggests: it arrives whether or not anyone runs a campaign.
The most useful gift
The most useful gift you can make is unrestricted. It lets us put money where the shortfall actually is — which, in a small organisation running four programmes, is never where we predicted in September.
A gift given for a programme is spent on that programme and nothing else. That is a promise we keep absolutely. It also means we cannot move it when something else runs short.
Before you give
Fondation Mir Héritage is a federal not-for-profit corporation. We are not a registered charity and we cannot issue charitable tax receipts. We are working towards registration. Until it is granted, a gift to us is a gift — not a deduction, now or retrospectively. You should know that before you give, not afterwards.
We use one email address: info@mirheritage.com
Community events in this region have been targeted by people impersonating organisers and asking for e-transfers to look-alike addresses. If a request for money reaches you from any other address, from a personal account, or with a sudden change of details — it is not us. Telephone 226-606-3428 and check before sending anything. We will never ask you to send money urgently, and we will never change our payment details by email.
How to give
- Online, one-off or monthly — through Zeffy. Zeffy charges no commission, so the full amount reaches the programme.
- Cheque — payable to Fondation Mir Héritage, 595 King Street East, Kitchener, Ontario N2G 2M2.
- Interac e-Transfer — to info@mirheritage.com.
- In kind — new, unwrapped gifts for children of any age, especially 13 to 17. Printing, interpretation, the use of a room. Please email first so we know what is coming.
- Companies — support for a named programme, matched giving, or staff volunteering on the day.
What we publish
By 31 December 2026 we will publish, on this website, programme by programme: who we reached, what we raised, what we spent and the cost per person. If the numbers disappoint, we will publish them anyway.
Four programmes. $16,700. One year.
And two hundred children waiting on the first of them, by early November.