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Mother Earth, We Love You

Mother Earth, We Love You

June 14, 2022 | Comments Off on Mother Earth, We Love You

Rossbrook House and Green Action Centre have teamed up with Depave Paradise project and removed concrete in front of Rossbrook House to create a beautiful garden/green space for all to enjoy. The new frontage is called Maamaa-Ahki Gizaagi-igoo: Mother Earth, We Love You.   Since the planting: Have you checked out the new garden in front of Rossbrook House yet? Not only did many children and youth assist with the planting, they are also committed to keeping the new area looking beautiful! Thank you to our garden team who are keeping our newly planted garden looking great. They are weeding, watering
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Volunteer Week!

Volunteer Week!

April 5, 2022 | Comments Off on Volunteer Week!

National Volunteer Week (April 24-30) is the perfect time to thank the amazing people who volunteer their time at Rossbrook House. From after-school programs to the Rossbrook House board and Rossbrook House Foundation board, we are blessed to have so many dedicated and generous people in our corner.   Leslie Galloway has been a volunteer at Rossbrook House since 1976. She is a Board Director who supports Rossbrook House children and youth in a variety of ways, including sitting on the Program and Operations Committee that oversees the annual scholarship celebration. “I recently had an opportunity to meet with a
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Learn more about Rossbrook House Foundation

Learn more about Rossbrook House Foundation

February 22, 2022 | Comments Off on Learn more about Rossbrook House Foundation

  “The smiles say it all. It’s been a pleasure meeting the families at Rossbrook. We all have a story to tell and lessons to learn,” says Jane Quinton, Rossbrook House Foundation Chair.   Rossbrook House Foundation was created in 2006 to financially support Rossbrook House, an inner-city drop-in centre for children and youth. The Foundation is made up of volunteer board, and committee, members who believe in the mission and vision of Rossbrook House.   Tom Dooley was involved in helping to set up the Foundation in 2005 to raise funds and help provide sustainable funding to support the programs
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Q&A with Jeff Coleman

Q&A with Jeff Coleman

November 12, 2021 | Comments Off on Q&A with Jeff Coleman

Jeff Coleman Rossbrook House Foundation Director and Fund Development Committee Chair. How/when did you first hear about Rossbrook House? I had heard the name Rossbrook House from various sources most notably from the women of St Charles Country Club who, for a number of years, had selected Rossbrook House as the recipient of funds from an annual golf tournament. Beyond that, I had little knowledge or understanding of what Rossbrook House did. Then in 2016 I was invited to a luncheon with former Foundation Board members Gord Webster and Bill Watchorn. That was my first real exposure to Rossbrook House. What
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Depave project

Depave project

November 5, 2021 | Comments Off on Depave project

Mother Earth, We Love You Rossbrook House and Green Action Centre have teamed up with  Depave Paradise project to remove the concrete in front of Rossbrook House. We will be creating a beautiful garden/green space for all to enjoy later this spring. The new frontage will be called Maamaa-Ahki Gizaagi-igoo: Mother Earth, We Love You. Working with Josep Seras Gubert, Sustainability Projects Coordinator from Green Action Centre has been enjoyable and inspiring. We can’t wait to share the new space with our neighbours. Past depaving projects have included rain gardens, edible gardens, sensory gardens, naturalization, planting of trees, and green playgrounds.
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Thank you to our volunteers

Thank you to our volunteers

April 21, 2021 | Comments Off on Thank you to our volunteers

    It’s National Volunteer Week. The theme for 2021: The Value of One, The Power of Many, reflects on the awe-inspiring acts of kindness by millions of individuals and the magic that happens when we work together towards a common purpose. Rossbrook House has many fabulous people who give their time to programming, committees, boards and special events. We have wonderful supporters who also donate food, hand-made items and more than we could ever list! Thank you all.
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Rossbrook House donor awarded for volunteerism

Rossbrook House donor awarded for volunteerism

September 30, 2020 | Comments Off on Rossbrook House donor awarded for volunteerism

  Written by Sydney Hildebrandt Community Journalist – The Times, Sydney Hildebrandt is the community journalist for The Times. Years ago, Vern Anderson sat in the audience at WE Day, an annual youth empowerment event organized by WE Charity, learning about the humanitarian aid the organization provided, primarily in Africa. “And then I’m thinking like, ‘How the hell can I do something local?’” Anderson recalled his epiphany. Vern Anderson, a Charleswood resident, collects aluminum cans and cashes them in for money which he donates to Rossbrook House. The 57-year-old has a long track record of community involvement, for which he
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#NoChildAlone2019 dinner

#NoChildAlone2019 dinner

February 6, 2019 | Comments Off on #NoChildAlone2019 dinner

  Thank you to the almost 600 guests who attended the #NoChildAlone2019 dinner January 24. This was only the 2nd time in 43 years that Rossbrook House held an event like this. We were thrilled to see so many friends, community and agency members, and supporters. It was our pleasure to bring Rossbrook House to you at the Canad Inns Destination Centre Polo Park. Each of the guests received a decorated tile made by one of the many Rossbrook House participants or students. The tiles commemorate the lives of the thousands of Indigenous children who died as a result of the
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