What We Do
We are transforming supportive cancer care by bringing together community-based supports and services. We engage in system planning and contribute to medical research to ensure the most promising evidence-informed practices are available for everyone affected by cancer.
Through collaboration with more than 50 community partners, the Community Cancer Hub offers a single referral point that connects anyone impacted by cancer, including individuals diagnosed with cancer, families and caregivers, to programs and services that best suit their needs.
Supportive cancer care in Ottawa is essential to address the multifaceted needs of cancer patients and their families. It provides emotional, psychological, and practical support, helping individuals cope with the physical and emotional challenges of cancer treatment. It improves overall quality of life, reduces stress, and enhances treatment outcomes. Additionally, supportive care services in Ottawa offer essential resources and information, fostering a sense of community and empowerment during a difficult journey.
With your generous support, we are navigating cancer together.
How We Can Help
SUPPORTIVE CANCER CARE
We play a vital role in the cancer care team, ensuring patients and families receive free holistic supports throughout their journey. At the Community Cancer Hub in the Maplesoft-Jones Centre, we provide comprehensive care with a multidisciplinary team offering emotional, psychological, social, symptom management, fitness, nutrition, and financial support. Our services include individual counselling, foot care, pharmacy consultations, support groups, caregiver assistance, children’s programs, financial aid, transportation support, return-to-work planning, end-of-life care, and bereavement services. Our diverse programs promote well-being, enhancing the quality of life for our community members.
CANCER SYSTEM NAVIGATION
The healthcare system can seem fragmented and complex when you are facing a cancer diagnosis and treatment. This free service, offered by registered healthcare professionals, provides vital support by simplifying the system and connecting patients with available services, supports and resources. This approach empowers the individual, enhances health literacy and aids vulnerable individuals in overcoming healthcare barriers, ensuring smoother transitions in care.
CANCER RESEARCH
We support cancer research in our community by collaborating with local research institutions, connecting participants to relevant research, providing research grants where appropriate, hosting seminars and workshops to share knowledge, conducting community consultations and increasing access to information on local research and clinical trials. Our commitment to research advancement helps drive innovation and address community-specific challenges.
How You Can Help
DONATE
When you support the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation, you ensure that individuals who are impacted by cancer in the Ottawa region have equitable access to supportive cancer care to reduce the physical, emotional and financial burden of cancer and increase the desired outcomes of improved quality of life for those in our community affected by this disease.
GIVE MONTHLY
Want to increase your impact? Consider giving monthly and spread out a gift in smaller amounts. It makes giving affordable, convenient and predictable. For example, an annual gift of $1,000 is approximately $83 a month or $20 a week.
HONOUR A LOVED ONE
A gift given in memory is a personal way to honour and celebrate a loved one while giving back to a cause that you both cared deeply about.
LEAVE A LEGACY
Leaving a gift in your will lets you make a true gift of a lifetime – one that you might not be able to afford while you’re alive. With the promise of future funding to fight cancer, it lets you build the world as you would wish to see it.
CREATE A CORPORATE FUNDRAISER OR CONSIDER WORKPLACE GIVING
Is there cancer in your work family? If your company has an event like a golf tournament or BBQ, proceeds can help your coworkers and their families.
There are many ways to support individuals facing cancer. Giving back can be easy. To begin a conversation, please contact:
Paula Muldoon, Vice President, Philanthropy
paula@ottawacancer.ca
613-247-1920 ext. 258
Get in touch:
1500 Alta Vista Dr.
Ottawa, ON K1G 3Y9
Email support@ottawacancer.ca
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613-247-3527
Year founded: 1995
Total revenue for last fiscal year: $3,788,338
Twitter: @ottawacancer
Facebook: @facebook.com/ottawacancer
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Deborah Lehmann, President & CEO
Julia Knox, Chair
BOARD MEMBERS
- Peter Andrews, PRA Strategic Group
- Karen Brownrigg, iHR Advisory Services
- Kevin Fitzgerald, Retired – MDS Aero
- Sabrina Fitzgerald, PwC
- Anthonette Jacob, ACB Wellness
- Joanne Kudakiewicz, Desjardins Financial
- Carl Marcotte, AtkinsRéalis
- Mita Meyers, EY
- Tina Nagratha, Heart & Stroke Foundation
- Suzanne Pellerin, RBC Dominion Securities
- Ian Sherman, Relationship Capital Inc.
- Mashooda Syed, Ottawa Prestige Properties
- Greg Walker, ASHB
TOP FUNDING SOURCES
INDIVIDUALS: 66%
CORPORATIONS: 34%
GEOGRAPHIC REGION OF FOCUS
Greater Ottawa Area
