About Care Alive
The Caroline Cunningham Foundation for Epilepsy (Care-Alive) was started by her family and friends in 2009, after Caroline’s death from SUDEP (Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy) in 2007, at the age of 32.
The goals of the foundation are to provide support for individuals living with epilepsy, to fund research into this poorly understood (and often misunderstood) medical disorder and to raise awareness of Epilepsy and SUDEP.
We’ve launched several initiatives since our start in 2009. We have established an informal partnership with the Epilepsy Halton Peel Region, and are the largest donor to their Sunny Days Kids Camp for 2010. We are also in the process of establishing a sponsorship with the Lion’s Dog Guide School, based in Oakville, Ontario to fund seizure-response dogs. We have also funded a grant to provide medical and supplementary care for those with epilepsy whose needs go beyond what’s covered through OHIP and private insurance.
Care-Alive is run entirely by volunteers in order to keep administrative and operating costs to a bare minimum; which means that we direct almost 100% of our fundraising proceeds to the causes we support.
Endowments to the foundation will be directed towards funding a Research Chair at Toronto Western General Neuroscience Department for research into Epilepsy and SUDEP.
The Caroline Cunningham Foundation for Epilepsy is a registered charitable foundation and issues tax receipts for all donations of $20 or more. Our charitable registration number is 80940 6952 RR0001.
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EVENTS
Care-Alive is proud to announce the start of Sunny Days Kids Camp – a day camp for children with epilepsy – and their siblings – who live in the Halton Peel region. We’re thrilled to see the camp underway and the kids having a fantastic time.
Check out the clips on Breakfast Television, filmed on Thursday, July 22 at Panera Breads to see the camp in action!
THE BAY STREET SOFTBALL LEAGUE CHARITY TOURNAMENT
Care-Alive is extremely excited to announce that we were the charitable organizing partner of the Bay Street Softball League 2010 Charity Tournament. This one-day tournament was held on Saturday, August 14, 2010 at Ken Morrish Complex at East Point Park in Toronto, Ontario.
15 teams from the financial district in Toronto played in the tournament and the players collected pledges to participate. We’re happy to report that we raised over $15,000 in pledges. All proceeds from the tournament will be allocated to the Lion’s Foundation Dog Guides for the training and placement of seizure-response dogs and to the Epilepsy Halton Peel Sunny Days Camp.
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Please help us reach our goal of raising $3 million dollars to establish a chair at Toronto Western Hospital in Caroline’s name!!
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