Friends,
We're excited to continue our journey to put more money on the front lines of mental health and addictions across Canada.
This past month, we were able to meet with and thank two organizations who made donations to A Dollar A Day. The winner of the grand prize for the Big 5-OH for ADAD contest went to an Alan Doyle concert in Ontario, and we celebrated International Self Care Day!
If you have not contributed yet, you can be a part of this movement for improved mental health and addictions care! Please consider becoming a
Dollar-A-Dayer- together we
can make a difference!
All the best,
Brendan, Alan & Andrew
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Newfoundland Growlers Donation
On May 15, 2019, A Dollar A Day Co-Founder Alan Doyle sang the national anthems at the Newfoundland Growlers hockey game in St. John's, Newfoundland. With each ticket purchase for the game, $1 was donated to A Dollar A Day! In July, the founders were able to visit Mile One Centre to accept a cheque for $5,000.00 from the owner of the Newfoundland Growlers, Dean MacDonald. Thanks, Growlers, for supporting A Dollar A Day!
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Photo: (left to right) A Dollar A Day Co-Founder Alan Doyle, Newfoundland Growlers Owner Dean MacDonald, A Dollar A Day Co-Founder Andrew Furey, and A Dollar A Day Co-Founder Brendan Paddick.
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Grant Thornton Donation
On July 9, 2019, the founders of A Dollar A Day - Alan Doyle, Andrew Furey, Brendan Paddick - were invited to visit the Grant Thornton St. John's Office to meet their national leadership team where they were presented a cheque for $5,000 for A Dollar A Day. Thank you Grant Thornton for supporting us and helping us spread our message!
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Big 5-OH for ADAD contest winner Katie Whitney Bonikowsky with Co-Founder Alan Doyle and her concert guest.
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Photo of Alan Doyle's concert courtesy of contest winner Katie.
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The Big 5-OH for ADAD Birthday Contest
; grand prize winner
Dollar-A-Dayer Katie Whitney Bonikowsky was the grand prize winner of the big 5-OH for ADAD contest for co-founder Alan Doyle's birthday.
The grand prize was two tickets to an Alan Doyle concert of the winner's choice including backstage passes!
Alan picked a name out of a box from all the entries and Katie was the lucky winner of the grand prize.
Katie chose to attend Alan Doyle's Jackson-Triggs performance on July 4, 2019 at the Niagara Estate Amphitheatre.
Thank you Katie for being A Dollar-A-Dayer and for your continued support of A Dollar A Day!
Don't forget to follow us on all our social media to stay engaged in what's going on with A Dollar A Day @adollaradaydfdn.
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Self Care Tips
July 24th was international self care day. It can be hard to fit self care into such a busy schedule, but taking care of yourself is necessary for physical and mental health.
Self care can look differently to everyone. Canadian Mental Health Association Calgary has 4 self care tips that will help you make taking care of yourself a priority.
Clear out the clutter, meditate everyday, schedule 15 minutes of R&R, and say no. These are the four tips CMHA Calgary says will help you take care of your mind and body.
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Kids Help Phone
Kids Help Phone
is Canada’s only 24/7 national service offering bilingual (English and French) professional counselling, information and referrals and volunteer-led, text-based support to young people.
A Dollar A Day rolled out a social media campaign highlighting the impact of services that Kids Help Phone provides to young people across the country. Kids Help Phone provided facts and statistics for this campaign, such as:
Kids Help Phone maintains the largest database of services in Canada with over 30,000 resource that supports young people in every corner of the country.
Recently, Crisis Text Line powered by Kids Help Phone celebrated their 100,000th conversation with young people. To access support through text messaging text TALK to 686868.
In 2018, Kids Help Phone supported young people 1.6 million times.
In 2018, the main reason young people in Newfoundland reached out to Kids Help Phone were suicide, depression, anxiety, sexual abuse/violence and self-harm.
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Our Corporate Partners
Working to Share the Change for Mental Health
Our corporate partners understand that mental health and addictions impact their employees, their families and their communities. Their support provides operational funds that help us move closer to our
100% goal
- that is, to have 100 cents of every dollar donated by individual
Dollar-A-Dayers
going to frontline mental health and addictions programs, where it is needed most!
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Have you followed us on Twitter? Did you Like us on Facebook? Are you following us on Instagram? We’d love to have you join us as a member of our online community, so be sure to look for us @adollaradayfdn and invite your friends and family to do the same!
#ShareTheChange4MH
As we continue to grow, we’re asking for your help! Our goal is to have everyone join together to Share the Change for Mental Health, so we’re asking you and your friends, family, colleagues and neighbours to join our movement!
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A Dollar A Day | 709-753-0794 | info@adollaraday.ca | www.adollaraday.ca
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