{"id":64102,"date":"2025-01-22T12:44:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T17:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/?p=64102"},"modified":"2025-02-03T14:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T19:52:19","slug":"agf-the-generous-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/the-network\/foundation\/agf-the-generous-gift","title":{"rendered":"AGF Group Foundation: Giving Back with \u201cThe Generous Gift\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, the AGF Group Foundation launched \u201cThe Generous Gift\u201d initiative, a campaign to donate $100,000 in surplus accumulated in the past years to charities selected by AGF employees across Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Our employees had several weeks to nominate charities they wanted to support by submitting funding requests ranging from $3,000 to $10,000 to help these organizations\u2019 projects. After receiving the many applications (around 50!), our selection committee had the difficult task of making a choice.<\/p>\n<h4>Here are the organizations chosen to benefit from this \u201cgenerous gift\u201d initiative, and their mission:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Food for Kids &#8211; Waterloo Region<\/strong>: Fights childhood hunger by providing nutritious meals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Calgary Association for the Development of Music Education (CADME)<\/strong>: Promotes access to music education for young people.<\/li>\n<li><strong>BALANCE for Blind Adults<\/strong>: Provides essential services to adults who are visually impaired or blind.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Op\u00e9ration P\u00e8re-No\u00ebl<\/strong>: Grants the wishes of children living in precarious conditions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>CERVO Foundation<\/strong>: Supports research into mental and neurological illnesses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Centre Ressources Jardin de familles<\/strong>: Offers resources and support to families in difficulty.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SLA Qu\u00e9bec<\/strong>: Supports people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and their families.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Association G\u00e9n\u00e9rale des Insuffisants R\u00e9naux<\/strong>: Improves the quality of life of people suffering from kidney disease.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Association de Fibromyalgie R\u00e9gion de Qu\u00e9bec<\/strong>: Supports people with fibromyalgia and raises awareness of the disease.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vie Autonome<\/strong>: Promotes independence for people with physical limitations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wood&#8217;s Homes<\/strong>: Offers shelter and mental health services to troubled youth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>BC Children&#8217;s Hospital Foundation<\/strong>: Supports pediatric care and research in British Columbia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alzheimer Society of BC<\/strong>: Supports people affected by Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Souls Harbour Rescue Mission<\/strong>: Provides food assistance and services to the homeless.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shelter Nova Scotia<\/strong>: Supports people who are homeless and in transition to stable living.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The past few weeks have been marked by the presentation of symbolic certificates to organizations. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We&#8217;re delighted to share these touching moments with you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64231\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Cadeau-genereux-Collage-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Cadeau-genereux-Collage-800.jpg 640w, https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Cadeau-genereux-Collage-800-500x373.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beyond the donated amounts, this initiative reaffirms AGF Group Foundation\u2019s core values: altruism, commitment, team spirit and ethics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A huge thank you to all those who took part in this wonderful adventure!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, the AGF Group Foundation launched \u201cThe Generous Gift\u201d initiative, a campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foundation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64102"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64315,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64102\/revisions\/64315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}