Baseball That Builds Belonging

Jays Care Foundation, the charitable arm of the Toronto Blue Jays, uses the game of baseball to give kids across Canada a place on a team where they belong. Jays Care believes that baseball for development programming can play an important role as an effective low-cost intervention to address pressing mental and physical health challenges for children and youth across the country. Proudly working in all ten provinces and all three territories, Jays Care runs baseball for development programming for more than 59,000 children and youth annually. Through its Field Of Dreams program, the Foundation has also invested nearly $15 million into building or refurbishing more than 160 community baseball diamonds across Canada. Jays Care is recognized as a top 100 Charity in Canada and are proud two-time winners of Major League Baseball’s Commissioner’s Award for Philanthropic Excellence.

When you raise funds for Jays Care by hosting an ECHOage party, you are enabling children facing barriers, including girls, youth living with physical and/or cognitive disabilities, Indigenous youth, and youth facing poverty, to participate in trauma-informed programming that fosters belonging and connection.

Together, we can dramatically increase access to inclusion-focused sport and play-based programming to more than 50,000 children and youth in more than 500 communities across the country. By donating, you can help to build a Canada where kids of all backgrounds and all abilities have a place on a team where they belong. When they belong, they believe!

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