Glowing Hearts Charity

A lot of groundwork is being laid behind the scenes of #GlowingHeartsCharity. We truly appreciate your ongoing support as we make plans to become a fixture in our community-supporting children and youth vulnerable to poverty. We hope you’ll join us to help reach this important vision. Stay tuned for more updates! And please check out our website: www.glowingheartscharity.org

Congratulations Barrie Families Unite for winning the Community Impact Award at the Mayor's Innovation Awards today! You are most deserving and we look forward to continuing to support one another!

Just over a month away! #glowingheartscharity

We have exciting news to share later this week! After a successful virtual board retreat (part 1), we made great strides in defining what the future of Glowing Hearts looks like and can't wait to share updates with you soon. Becoming a sponsor for our Backpacks for Youth Program is an incredible opportunity to join Glowing Hearts in having a positive impact on children and youth in our community. Become a sponsor today! https://www.glowingheartscharity.org/initiatives

We are thrilled to be offering the Backpacks for Youth program again, and could use your support! If you, or someone you know, is interested in becoming a sponsor, please check out the sponsorship package on our website. Thank you in advance! And a HUGE thank you goes to Brenda Richardson for being the Program Lead. We know it will be a huge success with you at the helm! glowingheartscharity.org/initiatives

Who knew Zoom board retreats could be so inspiring! Our work in part 2 helped us finalize our mission and more to be shared soon! #glowingheartscharity

We are so pleased to have the support of the Barrie Community Foundation as we evolve and build what will be a lasting charitable organization in our community. We look forward to helping honour their mission in "Making Barrie a Strong and Resilient Place to Live Work and Enjoy by Building Permanent Legacies". Thank you #barriecommunityfoundation and stay tuned for what we have in store next!

As we are nearing the end of 2020, Glowing Hearts is reaching out to request YOUR support by way of a year end charitable donation. 2020 was a tough year for a lot of people, but Glowing Hearts, together with their Community Outreach Program Partner; BFU, made life easier for 100's of individuals and families in our community as we facilitated the delivery of thousands of essential needs throughout the year. We need your financial support to continue our work as we carry fort...h into 2021. There are 2 ways to make a donation TODAY, from the comfort of your own home: 1.) Send an e-transfer to Glowing Hearts. Simply use our email address of: [email protected] when preparing an online e-transfer. Provide us with your full legal name, mailing address and email in the e-transfer notes section and we will ensure you receive a 2020 tax receipt in the mail in early January. 2.) Use this link and donate via Canada Helps (can use credit card, Paypal to set up a one time or monthly donation): https://www.canadahelps.org/en/explore/charities/ Tax receipts will be sent automatically via Canada Helps.

A new feature for this group: CEO Report from our Board Meetings. We've only had 2 Board meetings with our newly formed board, but this is a process we will get in the habit of doing; sharing the CEO report following each Board Meeting. https://docs.google.com//1u6Fq6dwURmSkuAiuDa3asJ5_OG/edit

Doors JUST opened at The 705 (56 Dunlop St W) for our 2nd day of Free Winter Outerwear Pop Up Shop. Hanging here today with D J Nazty Nazty rocking the holiday... tunes. Co-hosting this awesome event with Glowing Hearts Charity We are here til 2pm today and have lots of winter coats, snow pants, boots, toques and mitts to give away. Come see us!

Tomorrow!! Our 2nd Free Winter Outerwear Pop Up Shop is tomorrow!! 10am - 2pm at The 705 (56 Dunlop St. W.). Lots of great outerwear to give away. See you there.

Thanks John Ironside for this lovely tribute to Frank and the work continuing on in his spirit. This event surely shows the spirit of this wonderful community