June 2018
What's New at Distress Centre
Roxanne Cote (right), with Big Daddy Tazz, the keynote speaker of Lend An Ear 2016.
Celebrating 10 years of fund development with Roxanne Cote
Distress Centre’s dedicated and passionate Resource Development Manager, Roxanne Cote, is celebrating a decade at our agency! Read our latest news story to learn about her impact and experiences in ten years at Distress Centre.
Distress Centre wins Calgary Award for Community Advocate Organization
Distress Centre is grateful to the City of Calgary for honouring our agency with the Community Advocate Organization award at the Calgary Awards on June 13th.
Donate through Birdies for Kids and have your donation matched up to 50%!
Have you made your Shaw Birdies for Kids presented by AltaLink (BFK) donation yet? When you donate to Distress Centre through BFK, all administrative costs are covered by the Shaw Charity Classic tournament and every donation is matched up to 50%, making your donation go further.
Upcoming Events
Lend An Ear: A fundraising event for Distress Centre
Join us for Lend An Ear 2018
We hope you will join us for our 8th annual Lend An Ear event! Our MC this year is the very entertaining and funny Dominik Diamond, a Scottish television and radio presenter, and morning host of 96.9 JACK Radio.

Making her way from the bush of Northern Alberta, Bebe Buckskin, a Nêhiyaw singer song-writer will captivate you with her velvety voice and a delightful fusion of rhythm & blues, soul and classic rock.
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Thank You ATCO!
ATCO donates $44,259 to Distress Centre through the ATCO EPIC Program
ATCO chose Distress Centre as one of their 2017 ATCO EPIC featured charities. Distress Centre's social return on investment is $7.42 for every dollar invested, meaning we'll be able to turn ATCO’s $44, 259.76 donation into $3 34 ,000 in value for our crisis program.
From all of us at Distress Centre, have a great summer!
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