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Host a Fundraiser for Mental Health
Hosting a fundraiser is a great way to give back to your community and improve your wellbeing!
Set up a lemonade stand, host a pizza party at work, challenge yourself to an epic run or bike ride, collect donations for a birthday or just because you care about mental health.
Start a Fundraiser
Be the Reason Someone Feels Supported
Hosting a fundraiser helps your neighbours get the mental-health support they need. It opens doors to care, counselling, connection, and hope. It gives parents the tools to cope, young people the strength to reach out, and communities the chance to heal together.
When you host a fundraiser for CMHA, you take a step toward strengthening the mental health of your community. You become a champion for connection and compassion. And most of all, you help ensure that no one has to face their struggles alone.
Easy Steps to Start Fundraising for Mental Health
1. Create an event
Sign up to start your fundraising page. Your supporters will be able to donate securely and directly to CMHA. Contact us with any questions!
2. Customize your fundraising page
Customize your fundraising page with details on your fundraiser, your picture and why mental health matters to you. Fundraisers who share their own story on why mental health is meaningful tend to raise more than twice as much.
3. Share your story
Use our links and tool to share your fundraiser with your friends, family, classmates, and colleagues. Use email, social media, text and word of mouth to make a difference.
Why fundraise for mental health?
With deep roots in over 300 communities across Canada, CMHA is there for people where they live, work, and learn; connecting them to care, support, and hope every day.
By supporting CMHA, you’re helping to create lasting change — in people’s lives, in communities, and across systems. Your fundraising fuels programs that promote mental health for all, advocate for better policies, and strengthen local CMHAs so they can deliver care where it’s needed most. Together, we’re building a Canada where everyone belongs and everyone’s mental health is supported.
Choose How You’d Like to Fundraise
Select the type of fundraiser that best fits your idea. Whether you’re hosting something personal, at work, or in honour of someone special, your efforts help bring mental health support to more people in your community.