Tie One On 2015 was the best yet! We imagined that we might raise $40,000. In fact, when we added up all the donations & sales…we raised $55,000! How fantastic is that?!
When outreach workers found Valentina living in a tent in a North York park, she was surrounded by $7,000 worth of leather scrolls, each of them covered in handwritten Bible verses. She describes herself as “awakening, recovering on the other side.” For her, creating those scrolls is what made her healthy again. “The process of...
Read MoreOver a weekend in September a group from Homes First got together for the Wool Fundraiser in Cabbagetown. Even though the sky was keeping a lot of people inside with all of its rain over the weekend, the group was amazingly able to sell all the wool it brought. They raised $1308 over the weekend....
Read MoreAfter Jack Layton’s death, one of the tasks his son Mike Layton took on was sorting through his father’s things. As one might imagine, Jack Layton, the leader of the federal NDP party who died in August 2011, had accumulated quite a number of ties – nearly 300 of them, Layton said. “There were ones...
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