Our Impact
Thanks to the generous partnership of our sponsors and donors, we can support initiatives for families and individuals journeying through pregnancy and infant loss.
Donation Recipients
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Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation
$35,000 allocated since 2022
3 new CuddleCots purchased for the Lois Hole Hospital, staff attendance at a perinatal bereavement care training conference, Annual May Memorial Service
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H.E.A.R.T.S. Baby Loss Program
$30,000 allocated since 2022
215+ no-cost grief counselling sessions, Annual December Candle Light Memorial Service, hosting fees for baby loss chat line, Dreams Interrupted Retreat, staff attendance at pregnancy and infant loss convention
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Avery's Legacy
$9,000 allocated since 2023
60 comfort boxes distributed to families going through loss at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Stollery ASSIST team, or Braemar School for Pregnant and Parenting Teens
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Angel Whispers Baby Loss Support Program
$5,000 allocated since 2022
Summer Bubble Release Family Picnic, Healing Hands Christmas ornament workshop, care packages for grieving families, updates to resource library, volunteer training
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Community Events
$5,000 allocated since 2023
52 seats fully funded at 4 workshops hosted by Carry You With Me, rainbow baby photo shoot with Cynthia Priest Photography
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Teddy Bear Donations
$4,000 allocated since 2024
500+ soft and comforting teddy bears gifted to families newly experiencing baby loss within the hospital system
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ParentCare
$3,000 allocated since 2022
Funding for the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Annual December Candlelight Service
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Kihew Awasis Wakamik Cultural Society
$2,000 allocated since 2023
Funds used by Indigenous birth workers to support Indigenous families journeying through pregnancy and infant loss
Stories of Impact
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“Very refreshing to have an event that isn’t so grief centric. To have the opportunity to gather and be amongst each other without the heavy was a welcome experience."
2024 “Gather” Workshop Participant
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"We received two bears from the Lois Hole bereavement program, giving our empty arms something to hold as we mourned the twin baby girls we had lost."
Livia & Julia’s Parents
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"Honouring the babies I have lost and the journey they led me on, to the living baby I welcomed thereafter, was a beautiful experience that I am grateful for."
Cristina, Rainbow Baby Photo Shoot Participant
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“Receiving funds from the annual Starry Night Gala has helped us fund counseling, grief retreats, chat line support, and more. It is also helping to create a strategic plan for increasing baby loss supports and awareness."
Chy Salter-Roberts, Founder & Director of BriarPatch
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"When we received our Avery's Legacy comfort box after our precious son Ryan had passed away, we were moved to tears for the thoughtfulness, care and love that we felt as we looked through each item."
Ryan's Mom & Dad
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"Access to a CuddleCot after our infant son died allowed extended family to travel in to see him, and for all of us, the chance to say our goodbyes. The impact this time has had on our healing is profound."
Jessica Fleming, Maxwell George Fleming Foundation
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"Too small for life-saving measures, Clover was removed from oxygen and passed away 7 hours from her birth time. I was gifted a bear and it has been my biggest keepsake in the grieving process."
Jessica, Clover’s Mom