United Way 2026 campaigns: Driving community impact across North America

The Terry Fox Foundation received a huge boost Thursday, with the largest single donation in the organization’s history: $25 million from the Larry and Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation.

A Ridgetown man is giving up his everyday comforts for a week in hopes of raising $12,000 for children and youth in Chatham-Kent. Isaac Davey began living inside a portable storage container in downtown Chatham at the Exordia Creative office at 5 Llewellyn St. on Monday as part of the “7 Days Contained, For the Kids” fundraising challenge supporting the Children’s Treatment Centre Foundation of Chatham-Kent.

At The Salvation Army’s Westminster Park Community Church in London, Ont., students are developing their reading and math skills through iREAD+, a free after-school literacy and numeracy program for children in Grades 1 through 5. This initiative began in 2014 after a successful March Break tutoring camp.