For 14 years now, by attending Simple Plan shows, buying their biography, supporting their benefit events or simply by sending a cheque to the Simple Plan Foundation, thousands of people have been helping Chuck, David, Jeff, Sebastien and Pierre gather funds that could later be sent to many deserving places and organisations – most of them focusing on helping young people in social and medical need and also encouraging music as a way to help young people find a passion in life.
Yesterday, Simple Plan Foundation announced its donations for 2018. For last year, the Foundation will be giving away $225 000 to over 30 charitable organizations, bringing total donations to 2,500,000$ since the Simple Plan Foundation was started.
Amongst these organizations that will be benefiting from the Foundation’s support this year will be some of those that the SPF has been supporting for many years now, including the St-Justine Children Hospital, Montreal’s Children Hospital, Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto, The Lighthouse Children and Families, as well as Dr. Julien’s Music Garage, the Portage Foundation and War Child Canada. The SPF also added some new recipients this year: for instance the Dr. Clown Foundation and the New Pathways Foundation, a charity devoted to helping First Nations youth in Canada.
You can learn more about how SPF works in our special section about this Foundation here.