WHY CANADAHELPS

Our Cause Is Every Cause

As Canada's largest charitable social enterprise our mission is to inform, inspire, and connect donors and charities, and to democratize access to effective technology and education in the charitable sector.

We envision a society in which all Canadians are committed to giving and participating in the charitable sector, and in which all charities, regardless of size, have the capacity to increase their impact.

Growing
impact
More than 3.2 million people have donated almost $2.5 billion.
Trusted
by charities
More than 27,000 charities depend on CanadaHelps’ fundraising technology.
Leading
destination
Canadians can donate to every charity in Canada – 86,000 charities.
Proven
effective
Trusted by Canadians for over 21 years.

A charity that supports
all Canadian charities

We support all Canadian charities, no matter how big or small. Offering much more than just donation processing, we enable the fastest disbursements, and provide robust reporting and the best fundraising technology to charities nationwide.

What We
Offer Charities

Whether you're big or small, we work hard to alleviate the challenges charities face behind the scenes. It's our mission to help you focus on yours.

For over 21 years we've maintained a spotless record for secure donation processing and tax receipting while innovating new solutions to help charities raise more.

Top Notch Support
& Service

Committed to increasing capacity in the sector and providing the best service to charities of any size. Live support available by phone and email.

Backend
Administration

Offering fast disbursements, with weekly direct deposits to your charity’s bank account. PLUS, we take care of receipting and provide robust reporting – reducing the time you spend on administration.

The Ability To Grow
Your Supporters

Access at the donor-level, to all who have donated, to enable future communications and stewardship, by your charity.

Fundraising
Technology


More than just donation processing, we provide easy-to-use, optimized, customizable donation forms, peer-to-peer social fundraising, and events tools – premium tools without premium fees.

Meet our leaders

Duke Chang

President & CEO

Duke Chang is an accomplished executive with over 25 years of leadership experience in financial services and technology, transforming businesses through innovation and product-led growth. Most recently, Duke served as the Worldwide Head of Product, Business Development, and Customer Experience for Lenovo Solutions and Services Group where he built and scaled the broad solution portfolio to support Lenovo's $3 billion business.

Duke is adept at identifying customer needs and innovating solutions to intuitively bring tangible value to customers, solving real world problems and opportunities. He is also a co-founder of Act 3 Reality, an education technology company focused on helping children with autism and other social and learning challenges using Virtual Reality.

While Managing Director of Fidelity Investments, Duke helped champion critical innovations across financial services including investment management, charitable giving, student loans and the gig economy. He holds an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University.

Duke and his family currently reside in North York, Ontario, where he also grew up. He has endless enthusiasm to diversify the impact of CanadaHelps’ technologies and drive innovation. He focuses his priorities at CanadaHelps on enhancements that will empower Canadians to easily support their favourite causes and delivering real value in particular to small- and medium-sized charities, allowing them to grow their fundraising results and advance on their digital transformation journeys.

Meet our board of directors

The CanadaHelps Board of Directors represents experts in their respective fields, drawn from both the public and private sectors. Over the years their expertise and guidance has helped us to continue our work to increase charitable giving across Canada.

Anita Ferrari, Chair

CanadaHelps in the press

August 20, 2021
Charities require urgent digital transformation

The Philanthropist Journal

August 3, 2021
Top tips for investors from fund managers facing off for charity

The Globe and Mail

June 1, 2021
CanadaHelps challenges Canadians to support charities

News Release

May 19, 2021
Survey reveals huge deficit in charities' access to technology

News Release

Let's talk

We're here to help.

Mailing Address:
1-186 Spadina Ave, Toronto,
ON M5T 3B2

Phone Number:
(416) 628-6948 (Toronto Area)
(877) 755-1595 (toll-free in North America