Jays Care Foundation

On #SpiritDay, we are proud to join Major League Baseball (MLB) and Jays Care Foundation to take a stand against bullying, and show our support for all LGBTQ2S+ youth 💜

There's still time left to become a Jays Care Affiliate School! 🍎 Join thousands of educators across Canada and launch FREE extracurricular programming for your students! Becoming an Affiliate School is easy: 1️⃣ Join us for a virtual training session 2️⃣ Commit to 8 weeks of baseball/softball programming 3️⃣ Receive FREE specialized equipment and Toronto Blue Jays merchandise for your students! Help us reach 2,025 schools across the country in 2025! Apply now at: https://lnkd.in/dTCD2zWf

Thank you to José Berrios and La Makina Foundation for teaming up with Jays Care on the El Dream initiative this season. El Dream has raised more than $340,000 to help youth develop important life skills through baseball in José’s home of Puerto Rico and his adopted home in Canada. 👏

We teamed up with First Book Canada and Saskatchewan Roughrider Foundation for our Turn The Page event in Regina! Over 60,000 free books were distributed to more than 350 educators from 155 schools across Saskatchewan. 📚 A special thanks to Sobeys for providing carts for all of our educators! 👏

Ontario is investing $709k to promote safe, inclusive and welcoming environments for children through team sports and active recreation programs. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g4xV9tmU This funding will go toward strengthening student engagement and well-being in collaboration with our partners, Special Olympics Ontario, Jays Care and Canadian Women and Sport. Jays Care Foundation Special Olympics Ontario Canadian Women & Sport | Femmes et sport au Canada

Jays Care is honoured to donate $125,000 to 9 organizations to support their crucial work in helping create healing and reconciliation in Indigenous communities from coast to coast to coast. 🧡

We were honoured to welcome 43 Indigenous communities to this year's Jays Care Fall Classic! ⚾ 🔹 Lac La Ronge Indian Band 🔹 File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council 🔹 Kenora Chiefs Advisory 🔹 Maamweseying North Shore Community Health Services 🔹 Wasaa Naabin Community Youth Services IRL – Wikwemikong 🔹 Interlakes Reserve Tribal Council Thank you to our incredible donors and sponsors who helped make this tournament possible! 💙 The Sprott Foundation, City of Brampton, Toronto Blue Jays, CN Tower / Tour CN, Survivors' Secretariat, Holiday Inn Toronto International Airport, Neil Lumsden, Lisa Rogers, and Fusion and Soul.

That's a wrap on another incredible year of Behind The Plate presented by Labatt Breweries of Canada! Thank you to Buck Martinez and all 3 of this year's amazing guests, Justin Turner, Don Mattingly, and Chip Caray for helping raise important funds for Jays Care programs across Canada. 👏   Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for all of your support! TD, Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited, ONroute, Rawlings Sporting Goods, The Sprott Foundation, McCain Foods, Scotiabank, Toronto Blue Jays, Cavan Capital LLC, Hallmark Housekeeping Services Inc., Genumark

We're looking for educators across Canada to join our Affiliate Schools team! 🍎 As an Affiliate School, we’ll send you specialized equipment, Toronto Blue Jays merchandise, and a best-in-class program manual all for FREE. Help us reach 2,025 schools in 2025! Apply now at: jayscare.com/schools

We proudly invested over $1.5 million into Field Of Dreams projects across Canada in 2024! 🇨🇦 Your community could be next! Our 2025 application cycle is now OPEN! Learn how you can apply for a Field Of Dreams made possible by TD at: jayscare.com/fieldofdreams