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1. Who are Show Kids You Care and Trinity Global Support Foundation?
Show Kids You Care is a project of Trinity Global Support Foundation. Show Kids You Care, through breakfast clubs and through lunch and snack programs, helps children in serious need across Canada, regardless of race, religion, language or culture.
Trinity Global Support Foundation
is a
Canadian, private, charitable foundation (Charitable Registration No:
851387159RR0001). It was formed in 2007 by a group of
socially-conscious
business men and women, who were concerned about children growing up
without enough food to eat, children living without positive role
models in their lives, children who felt hopeless about their
present life and their future.
To
read more about the work Trinity Global Support
Foundation is involved in, please
click
here.
2. What is our mission?
Show Kids You Care is committed to making sure that all children in Canada have access to nutritious food. For more information on the issue, see our Children in Canada page.
3. What do we do?
Through a network of over 460 breakfast
clubs and lunch programs, Show Kids You Care provides over
450,000 meals to approximately 130,000 hungry children each
week.
Beyond the immediate impact of providing a nutritious meal
to a child, we always strive to have a long-term impact. We
work with families, especially mothers to help them to
become self-sufficient.
4. When did we start?
Our network of breakfast, lunch, and snack programs began in 1996.
5. How are we organized?
Show Kids You Care supports local meal
programs across Canada. To do so, we rely on volunteer and
part-time staff for program and fundraising activities.
Show Kids You Care is a project of Trinity Global Support
Foundation which is governed by a volunteer Board of
Directors, dedicated to caring for children and making sure
that donations are used effectively.
The Executive Director of the Show Kids You Care is Kristy Taylor.
6. How are we funded?
Show Kids You Care is funded almost entirely through private donations from citizens who share our concern for children living in poverty.
7. How do we select programs to support?
The Board of Directors has established several criteria for the
selection of projects to receive support. The criteria is
flexible, and we are willing to give consideration to any
group making application.
The criteria includes:
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Projects must be already in operation and have demonstrated an ability to deliver services and to secure financial, in-kind, and volunteer support from their local communities. We do not generally fund start-up operations. However, we will occasionally make special grants to a project that is already affiliated if they wish to implement a new or expanded aspect of their services.
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Projects must be affiliated with a local institution of some sort to which they report regularly and are both financially and operationally accountable. They must demonstrate a pattern of regular reporting and accounting to the organizations under whose authority they operate. Show Kids You Care affiliated projects are operated primarily by local schools and school boards and, to a lesser extent, by social service agencies, churches, other faith communities and Band Councils.
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Projects must have a significant component of volunteer labour and donated funds and services. Show Kids You Care does not generally provide additional assistance to large social service centres that are already receiving extensive government funding and employing numerous full-time staff.
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Emphasis is placed on projects directed towards pre-school and elementary school-aged children.
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All projects must be involved in the regular, direct provision of food to children. Groups that provide education, training, and advocacy related to child hunger but do not engage in actual feeding, cannot receive funding. Although these groups do deserve our respect and appreciation.
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Services must be available to all children regardless of race, gender, language, religion, culture or other family background. Services must be available based solely on need.
8. How can programs receive funds from Show Kids You Care?
Programs seeking funding must complete and
submit the Show Kids You Care
Application Form. They will be notified shortly
thereafter whether they will receive funding and how much.
Funds are distributed on a monthly basis. Regular reporting
of how funds are being used is necessary
9. Where are you based?
The offices of Show Kids You
Care
and Trinity Global Support Foundation are at:
Head Office
Trinity Global
Support Foundation
148 York St., Suite 204
London, ON N6A 1A9
Office: 519.913.1123
Fax: 519.672.3528
Satellite Office
Show Kids You Care
2243 Queen Street East, 2nd Floor
Toronto, Ontario, M4E 1G1
Office: 1-800-447-2458
Fax:
416-287-2372
10. Where can you get more information?
For more information on Show Kids You Care, please Contact Us!













