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What is DIY for Wishes?

Bring your fundraising vision to life! DIY for Wishes allows for easy fundraising. Whether you’re an individual, organization or community group, every bit of support goes a long way to granting wishes for kids with critical illnesses from coast-to-coast. Join us today and create your DIY fundraiser. Whether you’re hosting a bake sale, birthday party fundraiser or running a 5K, every dollar counts in making wishes come true! YOU can make a difference in the lives of children living with critical illnesses!

Easy as 1,2,3

Fundraising is a great way to bring people together, and every bit of support you generate goes a long way to grant wishes to children in communities all over Canada. Help make an impact today!

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Create your fundraiser and personalize your page using all the handy tools on this site!

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Whether you want to do your own thing, or use one of our handy toolkits, we have you covered. 

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Set your goal, decide your activity and raise funds to help grant the wish of every child across Canada.

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Celebration

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Sports

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Seasonal

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Stream

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Together, we create life changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Make-A-Wish® Canada grants more than 1,000 wishes annually.
But we can't do this important work without you.

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Santa Claus Lane

Santa Claus Lane is a multi-family street that has come together to make Christmas and the holiday season special for all. In the past they have done a huge Halloween display and raised $2,778.00 for Make-A-Wish. Their group discussed a few different charities and Make-A-Wish was the charity that they chose to support.

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Jodi's Trail Run

In 2020, Jodi chose to support Make-A-Wish Canada by setting out on a huge challenge and fundraising along the way. He ran across the entire Cabot Trail in Cape Breton. He completed the 298KM challenge in just over 44 hours. After, his trail run in 2020, Jodi set out on another challenge in support of Make-A-Wish in 2021 called the Adventure run. Jodi was able to raise over $15,000 in 2020 and approximately over $5000 in 2021 from donations received by his network of friends and family.

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Port Stanley Christmas Lights

My best advice for anyone wanting to run an event is stay organized. For us Dennis was the creative display person but I was the list maker and contact person. Together we set parameters, determined the needs to achieve those goals, who can help and how to use social media. Don’t be afraid to ask family, friends, co-workers and neighbors to give a hand.

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