Major Star Partners

For over 15 years, Walk in the Park Golf Tournament has been a proud supporter of Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation bringing together local businesses and corporations for a great day of golf for a wonderful cause.

Starlight has been grateful to receive over 150,000 worth of toys from Bandai Canada to distribute to our wish children, through our Hospital Happenings and Great Escapes programs.

Since it's inception seven years ago, the Barter Network Ltd. has assisted Starlight by providing barter dollars to purchase tangible items for various fundraisers and galas and provided tickets for concerts and sports games for our Starlight wish families to enjoy throughout the year. The Barter network allows Starlight to connect with various other companies and expand our family of donors. Founder Patti Falus and her staff have provided ongoing donations and support throughout the holiday season, when many of our families need it most, to ensure that the Starlight Starbright programs can run at full capacity for many years to come.

Colgate-Palmolive Canada Inc. has been a supporter of the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation since 1998. Colgate-Palmolive has provided more than $145,000 in funding for the Starlight Fun Center program. In 2006 Colgate-Palmolive continued their tremendous support by placing 3 more Fun Center units in Canadian hospitals and participating in the Emergency Admit Kit program.

Since 2002, The Embassy of hope, founded by former Toronto Raptor Vince Carter, has assisted Starlight and the wish families by providing once in a life time experiences and several substantial monetary donations. Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation and our families received the ultimate gift in 2004 when Vince Carter and the Embassy of Hope announced that all proceeds from the Vince All Star Game would be kindly donated to Starlight in August 2004. Starlight board members wish children and their families enjoyed complementary seats to the incredible game and took part in the various media launches surrounding this event. Many thanks to the Embassy of Hope and the Vince All Star Game for making wishes and dreams come true for our wish children and families.

Embassy Suites supported our wish program for the past four years by donating rooms for wish children and their families who travel within the United States for their wishes. Their support allows us to provide incredible once in a lifetime experiences for seriously ill children and their families.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car has been an integral part of the Starlight Insurance Gala acting as a President Sponsor each year which includes sponsorship of a Fun Centre to a local hospital. There support has been incredible and has meant so much to seriously ill children & their families.

The Funds for Canada Foundation have generously donated over $200,000 as well as secure long term donations in support of the foundation and its work. We are excited to be selected as a recipient of Funds for Canada Foundation.

GlaxoSmithKline Inc. (GSK) is one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. With a proud tradition of charitable and community support, being a socially responsible company is one of the company's key priorities for the past five years. GlaxoSmithKline Inc. has been a strong supporter of our annual Christmas Toy Drive. In addition GlaxoSmithKline Inc. has donated products in support of our Emergency Admit Kit Program.

For the past 10 years Great Gulf Homes has sponsored Starlight Starbright's Annual Great Escapes Holiday Party which hosts hundreds of Starlight Starbright families. This year’s “Winter Wonderland” Holiday Celebration at the Jubilee Pavilion in Oshawa was one of the best to date. Due to their support, thousands of seriously ill children and their family members have been able to enjoy this highly anticipated event. The Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation is thrilled to partner with Great Gulf Homes to continue to bring holiday magic to so many children's lives.

Mackenzie Financial has been a dedicated supporter of Starlight Starbright for over 11 years. Mackenzie continues to show their support through sponsoring Great Escapes Events and now recently sponsorship of Starlight in-a-box for hospitals in Toronto, Ottawa & Vancouver. We find some of our finest volunteers through the employees of this wonderful company and to top it off these amazing employees often donate personally through Mackenzie Financial’s employee giving program.

Joel Fenwick supports the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation in his role on the annual Black Tie Gala committee and as a board member. Joel has been able to involve many new groups with Starlight and by doing this has been able to help many more seriously ill children and their families.

Paul Fenwick supports the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation in his role on the annual Black Tie Gala committee and as a board member. Paul’s work and support continues to elevate the charities level of awareness as well as enable us to help more seriously ill children and their families each year.

TD Bank Financial Group has been a large supporter of our annual gala. Their continued support helps make our Black Tie Gala one of our most successful fundraising events for the foundation.