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A Special Way to Honour Your Mother

This Mother’s Day, please consider honouring your mother with a special gift to the young moms and children of Youville Centre.

Mother’s Day is a very special time of year here at Youville Centre. By participating in this annual initiative, your contribution will go towards helping us to continue to support our young moms and their children. Last year we raised $3,500 and this year it is our goal to raise $5,000!

The first name of each mother who is honoured will be written on a paper tulip and displayed around our centre to show our young moms the wonderful support they have from our donor community.

This year we also made a small card that you can give to your mother or to anyone you are honouring this Mother’s Day. We are also mailing a hard copy to everyone on our newsletter mailing list but if you prefer to donate online, please feel free to print this out.

How to Donate

Online:

Click on any image above and it will lead you directly to Youville Centre’s Canada Helps page where you can donate online. Please tell us your mother’s first name in the Message/Instructions field.

Lettermail/In-Person:

Print out this page and fill out the information on the donation card above and either mail it to us or drop it off at 150 Mann Avenue, Ottawa ON K1N 8P4.

Phone:

Call in your information to (613) 231-5150 Ext. 128.

Thank you for considering this unique way of celebrating Mother’s Day! Please consider sharing this message within your networks.

Please note, tax receipts will be mailed to everyone who donates $25 or more (as per Canada Revenue Agency guidelines for tax receipts).

If you have any questions, please contact us at (613) 231-5150 Ext. 128.

Happy Mother’s Day!

Mother’s Day at Youville Centre ~ Thank you to our Generous Donor Community!

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our First Annual Mother’s Day Campaign this May!

The concept of the campaign was to provide an opportunity for you to honour your own mother and all that she gave to you, by giving to our young mothers and their children at Youville Centre. We were so delighted when we started seeing the response from our generous donor community, and we displayed their generosity on the wall of our entrance with the name of each honoured mother written on a paper tulip for all to see.

As the tulips went up on the walls, our students became curious, “What are those flowers for?”, they would ask. We explained to them that the flowers represented moms in our Ottawa and area community who care about them, our students and young mothers. In the end we had a wall full of tulips, reminding our young mothers each day, as they walked up the stairs to class, that there was a garden of moms behind them, providing a chance for them to grow and to provide a brighter future for their children.

Thanks to our amazing donors, we were able to raise $3,000 in this inaugural campaign, of which all proceeds will go towards supporting our daily programs and operations at Youville Centre. It was so encouraging to see this “Mom to Mom” support, and we plan to continue this campaign each year.

To celebrate Mother’s Day even further, the Kiwanis Club of Ottawa-Vanier offered each Mom a rose as a special Mother’s Day treat (pictured above), and we provided a special lunch for our students to enjoy. Mother’s Day is a pretty big deal here at Youville Centre, as we all take this time to celebrate the love and devotion our students have for their children, and now it is also a time to honour our donors’ mothers, who surely instilled the gifts of empathy, generosity and a charitable spirit in their children.