BP Foundation | Children's Charity Canada

For over 30 years, our guests have helped us raise funds that help support children and families in need, creating stronger and healthier communities across Canada. To date, the Boston Pizza Foundation has raised and donated over $33 million to charities in communities from coast to coast and around the world.

Boston Pizza believes that strong role models inspire kids to be great. This is why we created Future Prospects – because things start to look up when you have someone to look up to.

Research shows that those who have had a role model are more likely to*:

Feel Confident - 92%
Be Happy - 96%
Hold Leadership Positions - 47%
Have Post-Secondary Education - 63%
Be Employed - 17%

Through our five charity partners, we help connect kids with role models in their communities to ensure they have the guidance necessary to support their bright futures. Our four amazing not-for-profit partners Big Brothers Big Sisters, Kids Help Phone, Live Different and Rick Hansen Foundation have helped us provide positive and meaningful mentorship to children and youth right across Canada.

Big Brothers Big Sisters provides mentors to over 41,000 children in over 1,100 communities. Our support is empowering Big Brothers Big Sisters to further engage youth as they continue to enable life-changing mentoring relationships to ignite the power and potential of young people. Big Brothers Big Sisters is responding and working to keep kids connected as youth across Canada are facing even greater challenges. David (photo attached), is currently a member of the BBBS National Youth Mentoring Advisory Council (NYMAC) and has been a part of Big Brothers Big Sisters since 2015 as a teen and an in-school mentor, and remains very active in his community.

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Kids Help Phone is Canada’s only 24/7 national service offering professional counselling, information, referrals and volunteer-led text-based support for young people. In 2020, Kids Help Phone had over 4.5 million connections with young people, compared to 1.9 million in 2019. As young people turned to them in record numbers amidst COVID-19, Kids Help Phone remained open, providing support wherever, whenever and however young people needed it most.

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LiveDifferent’s new pandemic-proof program, LiveDifferent Circles, gives students the opportunity to connect and take action. Through collaborative learning, dynamic video content, and the completion of guided compassion projects, Circles helps youth adopt key lifestyle values and impacts communities in meaningful ways.

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The Rick Hansen Foundation School Program (RHFSP) is meeting the changing needs of educators and families across the country. RHFSP empowers thousands of youth to make a difference in their schools and communities, equips educators with resources to teach about disability and inclusion, and connects with ministries across the country to help shape the future of education.

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Every child has the ability to make a difference in the world, and at Boston Pizza we value how important positive role models and mentors are in supporting and inspiring youth to reach their dreams. Through Boston Pizza Foundation Future Prospects and our partnering organizations, we will work together to ensure ALL kids have the opportunity to have a positive mentor or role model to help support, guide and empower them to become all that they can be.

To get involved, please visit our Foundation’s social media pages on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. We hope you’ll join us.

Michelle Schepel
Executive Director
Boston Pizza Foundation Future Prospects

Donation and Sponsorship Requests

Boston Pizza Foundation Future Prospects, Boston Pizza International Inc., Boston Pizza restaurants and Boston Pizza franchisees are proud to support a variety of community initiatives and programs throughout Canada that help build a better future for kids. Find your nearest Boston Pizza.

Local and In-Kind Donation and Sponsorship Requests

Looking for a gift card for your silent auction or charitable event? Or sponsorship for your school, community group or sports team? Simply contact your local Boston Pizza with your request and one of our franchisees, general managers or community relations coordinators will be happy to see what they can do to help you help others. Find your nearest Boston Pizza.

Boston Pizza Foundation Invitational Charity Golf Tournament

The Boston Pizza Foundation Invitational is Boston Pizza Foundation’s annual charity golf tournament. Our goal has always been to provide a great time for all while raising money to support a brighter future for kids. Over the past 25 years, this tournament has raised over $12.7 million. We are so grateful and appreciative of all the support we receive for our tournament.

For more information on our tournament, please email [email protected].