Ways to Give
Your support helps keep us paddling.
Dragons Abreast is a 100% volunteer-based, member-run team. As a registered charity, we rely on corporate and private donations, as well as team fundraising, to meet our financial and admin needs. It’s through the generosity of our sponsors, partners, and supporters that we are able to help breast cancer survivors in the Toronto area improve their fitness and quality of life.
Funds raised are used to:
- Help purchase needed gear, such as paddles, PFDs, and racing jerseys
- Help cover paddling club membership dues
- Help cover racing costs and registration fees for events
- Help cover our financial and admin needs to run the team
- Help keep dragon boating inclusive and affordable for all our paddlers
- Helps pay for trained coaches for practices and at races
- Help us provide education and outreach to raise awareness of breast cancer prevention, available support and the benefits of team membership
- Help us expand our outreach to survivors in Indigenous and Multicultural communities
- Help us promote the benefits of exercise for survivors and demonstrate that there is life after breast cancer
Sponsor Us
Interested in teaming up with Dragons Abreast? For sponsorship and partnership opportunities, or to make a donation in kind, you can contact us at sponsorship@dragonsabreast.ca. With your support, together we can help breast cancer survivors thrive.
Become a Sponsor! Contact sponsorship@dragonsabreast.ca
Thank you to our sponsors. We couldn’t do this without you!
It takes a team to keep a team going. We are grateful for the generous and ongoing support of our sponsors. Not only do you keep us paddling, you help us continue our journey of education and awareness that it is possible to live a full and active life after breast cancer.
Our Sponsors
Anita Canada
Anita Canada has been Dragons Abreast’s major sponsor since 2017. They specialise in top-quality lingerie and swimwear and highly functional sports bras and shapewear for special purposes, including mastectomy bras and swimsuits. As well as annual sponsorship funding, Anita Canada fits each of our team members with a complementary sports bra, prosthesis (if needed), and compression leggings. It’s a perfect union, as members of Dragons Abreast volunteer their time to model Anita’s products at training sessions for their retailers, and participate in educational podcasts. We thank Mark Caskenette, Managing Director and Ingrid Carreres, Bilingual Training & Development Manager, for Anita’s generous and ongoing support to our team. Anita also donated 100% of the profits from their award-winning photography book featuring Dragons Abreast members, Beautiful Body, Unbreakable Spirit, to our Trent-Severn Waterway Fundraising Adventure and to other dragon boat teams.
Anita Canada is a
2024 Curve Meritas Award Winner (Best Brand of 2024)
WELL Health
WELL aims to positively impact health outcomes by leveraging technology to empower and support patients and healthcare providers.
LiUNA! Local 183
The Labourers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA!) Local 183 strives to be the most progressive, aggressive and fastest growing union of construction workers, waste management workers, building service and maintenance, and healthcare workers in Canada. They represent more than 70,000 workers in an area stretching from Kitchener to Kingston and north through Muskoka.
LiUNA! Ontario Provincial District Council
The Ontario Provincial District Council (OPDC) is a certified council of trade unions made up of affiliates of the Labourers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA). Their affiliated unions specialize in representing construction workers, as well as workers in many other industries including manufacturing, hospitality, cleaning, convention and show services.
Sport Law
We thank Sport Law and welcome them as sponsors. They’ve reviewed and updated our bylaws to make them compliant with the new bylaw requirements under Ontario’s Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010. Sport Law specializes in law and leadership. Their team of experts, from a wide variety of backgrounds and disciplines, are connected by their love of sport and provide care and clarity to leaders seeking to grow and advance their sport.
Supporters
Toronto Adventures.ca
Sunnyside Paddling Club
Donate to Us
Monetary donations can be made online in the form of:
- A tribute gift in honour or memory of a loved one
- A one-time donation
- A monthly donation
- An annual donation
Your support helps survivors thrive. Donate today.
Get a tax credit for you donation.
Donating online is secure and easy. We use Zeffy to fundraise, a zero-fee, 100% free fundraising platform for nonprofits and charities.
Dragons Abreast Toronto is a registered charity (registration #85212 6903 RR0001). Official donation receipts for income tax purposes will be issued through Zeffy.
Is your donation is in memory of a paddler?
Please include the paddler’s name in the special instructions on the payment page.
Your generosity is appreciated and helps us spread the word to encourage survivors to take action for their health. Thank you.