Without your support,

we would not be able to help the thousands of community members who look to the Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation to champion improved healthcare.

This section is dedicated to all of the donors, volunteers, sponsors and community partners – your peers – who give kindly of their time and money to support the Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation. Each has a unique story and relationship with the Foundation, and we are honoured to consider them partners as we continue to promote healthcare excellence for the Saanich Peninsula and Southern Gulf Island communities.

There are so many ways you can get involved with the Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation. Love to volunteer? Join us for one of our exciting annual events, or even help around our offices. Do you want your community to understand your business’ commitment to corporate social responsibility? Sponsor an event through our Commerce for Care program, or even consider creating a Corporate Matching Gift program to bolster your own staff’s philanthropic efforts.

We are always excited to collaborate with businesses and individuals who have great ideas and a passion for making a difference. Please consider becoming a stakeholder of the Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation to support our efforts to keep the landscape of healthcare on the peninsula vibrant.

Legacy Giving
from the Heart

SPHF Executive Director Karen Morgan tells us why she believes in planned giving.

After talking to donors for 20 years, I know that some want to have an immediate impact; others want to leave a longer-lasting imprint on their favourite charity.

I’m also a donor. I give a monthly gift, but I’m also a bequest donor to my university and the Saanich Peninsula Hospital.  Giving to annual campaigns, through either a one-time or monthly gift allows SPHF to meet immediate, specific goals such as building new operating rooms and putting new equipment in the hands of hospital staff and doctors. Legacy gifts are usually invested, providing long-term financial stability, and enabling the Foundation to weather the storms of economic downturns, when charitable donations can drop.

My decisions were easy: my undergraduate university changed my life, with its intimate learning environment. The Saanich Peninsula Hospital, as many of you know, has similar features. It’s warm and neighbourly, providing compassionate care to friends and family.

It was touching when my friend entered the Saanich Peninsula Hospital’s Palliative Care Unit with the attitude that her life might be coming to an end, but the party wasn’t. Hospital staff supported her and tolerated much: there was the day 15 members of her extended family participated in a sing-a-long with the music therapist. Later she hosted a slumber party with her nieces. Then, even later, she decided that her life was going end at home. Hospital staff helped her source equipment and supplies.

Most donors make gifts from the heart – mine certainly are. They make me happy.  It also doesn’t hurt that, according to recent research, giving reduces the odds of an early death by nearly 60%!

If you want to make a legacy gift to support the Saanich Peninsula Hospital, please talk to us and to your advisors. You don’t need to be wealthy to leave a legacy. In fact, a significant part of the Foundation’s capital fund comes from people who have lived quiet lives in relatively modest circumstances, but considered it important to leave a legacy.  Such a gift can enable you to provide a larger donation, and receive significant tax savings for your estate. This means you can make a legacy gift, while ensuring the amount you wish to leave to your children and grandchildren is unchanged.

Karen Morgan, Executive Director