Grant and Funding Programs Offered by Canada's Children’s Hospital Foundations (CCHF)

Canada’s Children’s Hospital Foundations (CCHF) is a national umbrella organization that unites corporate partners, individual donors and communities to support 13 dedicated children’s hospital foundations across the country. Rather than operating a hospital itself, CCHF raises funds and channels them to local member foundations so they can invest in advanced pediatric care, research and family support programs in their own regions.

Through national fundraising partnerships with leading retailers, financial institutions, airlines and other companies, CCHF coordinates coast‑to‑coast campaigns at points of sale, online and in workplaces. A core principle of its model is local relevance: every dollar raised in a community stays with that community’s children’s hospital foundation, ensuring donors see a direct impact on kids and families close to home.

Funds raised by CCHF support a broad range of needs identified by the member foundations and their hospitals. These typically include state‑of‑the‑art medical equipment, renovation and expansion of child‑friendly care spaces, research into childhood diseases, mental health services, family assistance, and innovative models of care. Impact stories and patient ambassador profiles on the site illustrate how donor‑supported projects enable life‑saving surgeries, critical care transports, complex rehabilitation and long‑term follow‑up for children with serious illnesses or injuries.

While specific grant processes are managed by each member foundation, CCHF’s role is to aggregate and distribute national funding streams so multiple hospitals benefit from large corporate and community campaigns. It also collaborates with partners such as Enfant Soleil in Québec to align pediatric funding efforts across jurisdictions.

CCHF ultimately serves children and youth requiring specialized pediatric care, as well as their families, by strengthening the hospital foundations that support them. The network spans every region of Canada, from British Columbia and the Prairies to Ontario, Québec and Atlantic Canada. By supporting foundations that back maternal‑child centres, trauma and emergency services, cancer care, neonatal intensive care units, mental health programs and more, CCHF helps ensure that children receive timely, specialized treatment regardless of where they live.

The organization highlights measurable impact to its partners through reports and co‑branded communications, demonstrating how collective philanthropy advances research, accelerates the adoption of new technologies and improves hospital environments. In doing so, CCHF plays a central role in Canada’s pediatric health funding ecosystem, linking national campaigns to local hospital priorities through a coordinated network of foundations.