The Co-operators donates more than $230,000 to more than 150 organizations

The Co-operators has donated $236,150 to 156 community organizations throughout Canada.
The contributions are part of the organization’s Directed Donations program.
In this program, individual staff members direct $75 of corporate funds – directors and delegates direct $125 – to the organization of their choice.
“This popular program allows employees to be directly involved from start to finish, as they nominate organizations and then choose which will receive their portion of the corporate donation,” said Kathy Bardswick, president and CEO of The Co-operators.
The following organizations are among the 156 groups receiving funding this year:
• Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation.
• Children’s Hospital Foundation of Eastern Ontario.
• Covenant House Youth Shelter, Toronto.
• En Coeur, la Fondation québécoise pour les enfants malades du cœur, Montreal.
• Friends of Moncton Hospital.
• Hope’s Home, Regina.
• Juravinksi Cancer Centre Foundation, Hamilton.
• Sick Kids Foundation, Toronto.
• Women in Crisis Guelph-Wellington.