Ways to Give

Your support helps keep us paddling.

Dragons Abreast is a 100% volunteer-based, member-run team. As a non-profit organization, 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

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.

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

Donating online is secure and easy through PayPal or Square. 

Please note

Dragons Abreast Toronto is a not-for-profit organization. As such we are not able to issue official donation receipts for income tax purposes.

If 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.