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Live A Dream

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What is the LAD Program?

• Community Mentorship Program

– Inviting the local community to partner with Dreams

– Get to know our members, and build relationships

– Contribute locally, and make a lasting difference

• Crucial to help sustain our programming

• An opportunity to help our members achieve their goals and dreams!

What Impact does the LAD

Program have?

• Help our members achieve their goals and dreams

– Empowering our members to be independent

– Enhancing their programming to further their life skills, social skills, job training, active living, alternative therapy

What is unique about the LAD

Program?

• Beyond sponsoring and donating to a member– But seeing exactly where your sponsoring dollars are

going to• No administration costs

• Sponsorship dollars go directly into programming

• Beyond writing a cheque...– But to interact with our members and build genuine

relationships with them• Drop in, take them out to lunch, bring them to your

workplace... (the ideas are endless)

What difference can YOU

make?

We are asking people to commit to sponsoring

ONE member for ONE full year (with the option of renewing)

For $100 a month or $3.33 a day

*A tall latte at Starbucks

What difference can YOU

make?

And the burden doesn’t have to be on just you!

We are encouraging you to get family and friends involved!

The $100 a month may be a commitment from your family, your household, your group of friends, your coworkers, etc...

What kind of results can we

see?

• We currently have 2 sponsored members!

– One Example: Danny

• Goal: to lose weight

• Problem: Overweight, health issues, lack of physical activity

– Purchased a Treadmill

– Keep Danny accountable with regular exercising as part of his active living program

– Not only benefits Danny, but many other members as well!

Where does the money go?

• 100% of the sponsorship money goes directlyinto programming– To help our members

• achieve their goals and dreams• Be independent• Enhance their programming and specialized curriculum

• Examples– Hire music therapists to work with our members– Hire an athletic coach, Computer Instructor– Purchase a exercise equipment, etc...

Are there other ways of

helping?

• Dare to Dream Scholarship

– You are able to donate any amount of money that will go towards this scholarship

– To help provide one of the 400+ people in York Region on the waiting list, enrolment into our day program

What Do I Get?

• Tax Receipts (for $10 donation or more)

– Centre for Dreams is a recognized Charity

• Quarterly Reports and Updates• A profile of who you are sponsoring• A letter from the President of the Centre for

Dreams• A sponsorship certificate• The knowledge and satisfaction that you are

making a real difference in the lives of our members!

MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

BE A DREAM MAKER.

More Information?

Please Contact:

Justin Cheung

[email protected] ext.29

www.centrefordreams.ca