Family physicians are essential to the provision of continuous care to patients. Known also as skilled generalists, they take on diverse roles that reflect their patient communities’ needs, such as emergency care, obstetrics and gynecology, and palliative care. Family physicians care for patients and their families from the cradle to the grave and connect patients with other specialists. Family doctors are often the first point of contact patients have with the health care system and they are leaders in their communities.

The Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine (FAFM) is a registered charity. It raises funds to support the CFPC members in providing the best care for everyone in Canada and to lead the advancement of family medicine through philanthropy.

Your contributions support the following areas [list as below].

Please give generously by clicking the Donate Now or by sending a cheque made payable to:

The Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine
2630 Skymark Avenue
Mississauga, Ontario
L4W 5A4

With your generous donation (minimum of $15), it will be recognized with a charitable tax receipt.

Please contact [email protected] for further details.

Thank you for your contribution. Your donation improves lives for all Canadians!

The following are to be listed as accepting donations for:

Bruce Halliday Restricted Fund 

This fund supports the Bruce Halliday Care of the Disable award, which recognizes the achievements of a family physician CFPC member who is making an exceptional contribution to the welfare of the disabled in his or her community through practice, teaching, research, or advocacy.

C. Robert Kemp Restricted Fund

This fund supports the C. Robert Kemp Palliative Care Grant, which supports family physician CFPC members in active practice in their participation in a continuing professional development/continuing medical education traineeship to help them attain or enhance their knowledge and skills in the areas of hospice palliative care. 

Daniel Glazier Restricted Fund 

This fund supports two grants – a research grant and a CPD grant, both for Adolescent Mental Health and Substance Abuse for Canadian family physician researchers and/or educators. These grants are named in memory of Daniel Glazier, a young man from Toronto, Ontario, who died at age 18 in July 2009 of circumstances related to mental health and substance abuse and are meant to support research and/or education that will help family physicians in assessing and treating mental health and substance abuse among adolescents and young adults up to the age of 25

Donald I. Rice Restricted Fund      

This fund supports the Donald I. Rice Award, which recognizes outstanding CFPC Family Physicians for contributions to teaching and leadership in the discipline.

Jean-Pierre Despins Restricted Fund          

This fund supports the Jean-Pierre Despins Award, which honours a family physician CFPC member who is recognized as an outstanding advocate and public spokesperson for family medicine, family physicians, and their patients.

Jim Ruderman Restricted Fund     

This fund supports the Jim Ruderman Family Medicine Education Leadership award, which recognizes an outstanding Canadian family physician who embodies the qualities of an outstanding leader — excellent role model, inspires others to work collaboratively, promotes a work environment that is respectful, collegial and supportive, effective delegation, self-awareness and humility. It recognizes a teacher of family medicine – either community-based or university-based – whose unique and innovative contribution has had a significant local or regional impact.

Greatest Need    

To provide contributions to the programs in the greatest need.