Welcome to the George Jeffrey Children's Foundation

The George Jeffrey Children's Foundation is a charitable organization that encourages and administers charitable gifts to support the George Jeffrey Children's Centre.

The George Jeffrey Children's Centre provides care and support for children in Northwestern Ontario with physical and developmental disabilities and their families.

Our Final Challenge

The George Jeffrey Children's Foundation is facing its Final Challenge.

The campaign has raised an amazing $4.5 million dollars to help build the new centre, but we still need $1 million dollars more in order to complete construction.

Why is this important? Reaching our goal of $10.5 million dollars will ensure that the Centre can continue to run all of the programs that are so essential to helping the physically and developmentally challenged children of Northwestern Ontario.

The children at the George Jeffrey Children's Centre face challenges every day. Help us complete our final challenge so we can continue to help them meet theirs.

How to donate:

There are many ways to donate to the George Jeffrey Children's Foundation. Choose the contribution option that best suits you.

Save Me A Seat: For just $20.00 per month over 50 months or $1000.00, you can sponsor one of the 1000 child spaces at the new George Jeffrey Children's Centre and allow your name to live on in a child's future for generations to come.
Sponsor a room: Naming opportunities are available at the new George Jeffrey Children's Centre. There are still rooms available for sponsorship.
Planned giving: There are many ways to make a gift to the George Jeffrey Children's Foundation. From Insurance Policies to appreciated securities to charitable bequests and more. Your Financial Advisor or one of our Planned Giving Committe is available to help you.
Recurring donation: Make a monthly donation by cheque, credit card or automatic withdrawal from your bank account. For less than the cost of your daily cup of coffee you can make a difference.
One-time donation: Your donation helps make a difference in the lives of physically and developmentally challenged children in Northwestern Ontario. Please help us complete our New Centre.

Call 623-6050 to pledge your support or email us at , and we will call you to confirm your details and chosen payment method.

Tentative Weekend Schedule.

Friday, June 5

6:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m.

Compulsory driver and pit crew meeting at the Big Tent in Waverley Park.

Turn in ALL Pledges at this time.

Practice Runs for All Drivers

Saturday, June 6

8:00 a.m.

9:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

1:00 p.m.

6:00 p.m.

Pit Area Opens

Racing Begins

Open Ceremonies and Lunch Break

Racing Resumes

Racing Concludes

Sunday, June 7

*11:15 a.m.

12:30 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

Pit Area Opens

Racing Begins (Eliminations Begin)

Awards Presentations and Photos

Attention! GJCf Still Accepting applications for 2009 thunder 100 grand prix soap box race.

May 28th, 2009 - If you are still interested in submitting an application for this years event, please contact 623-6050.

ATTENTION! All 2009 Thunder 100 Grand Prix Soap Box Race Participants!

It has been brought to the attention of the Thunder 100 Grand Prix Soap Box committee that the current age limits on the Modification Class are not on par with the other Soap Box Organizations in Ontario. After a period of investigation, the Soap Box Committee has decided to align ourselves with other Soap Box organizations. We will be changing our age limit for children driving modified cars to 8 years old and up.

However, the Soap Box Committee reserves the right to determine that each driver has the ability to safely control and manage their vehicle.

ATTENTION! 2009 Soap Box Manual, Application Form, Pledge Sheet and Race Waiver are Available for Download

Please click on the link below to access the .PDF or .DOC version of the 2009 Thunder 100 Soap Box Manual. Included in this manual are the specifications for building your cars. If you have any questions or concerns please call the Foundation Office at 623-6050.

Soap Box Inspections will take place at:

Dominion Motors Ltd.
882 Copper Cres Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay, ON P7B

Saturday May 9th: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Sunday May 24th: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

2009 Thunder 100 Soap Box Race Manual (3MB, .DOC)
2009 Thunder 100 Soap Box Race Manual (834KB, .PDF)

2009 Thunder 100 Soap Box Application Form(.DOC)

2009 Thunder 100 Pledge Sheet(.DOC)

2009 Thunder 100 Soap Box Race Waiver(.DOC)

Thumbs Up!

A Thumbs Up! goes out to Carter Weiis and Jeremy Dunmore for showing that genorosity can come from the most unexpected places. Carter and Jeremy chose to forgo birthday's presents this year, and instead ask for donations to be made to the George Jeffrey Children's Foundation.

The George Jeffrey Children's Foundation would like to thank Carter and Jeremy for their efforts.

Rotary Club of Thunder Bay (Fort William) presents $35,000 cheque

35 members of the Rotary Club of Thunder Bay (Fort William) were given a tour of the new George Jeffrey Children's Foundation, Wednesday Sept 3.

Rotary Club members make a surprise cheque presentation of $35,000 as the first instalment toward the new Family Lounge.

AbitibiBowater Rewards Local Charity with Cash Award

Photo, AbitibiBowater cheque presentation.

Thunder Bay, ON (Wednesday, September 3, 2008) – Dave Paterson, President & CEO of AbitibiBowater visited Thunder Bay to present the Board of Directors Safety Award to the Thunder Bay Sawmill for achieving 500,000 recordable incident free man hours. With this recognition comes a $10,000 award to be donated to a charity of the mills choice.

The AbitibiBowater Thunder Bay Sawmill selected the George Jeffrey Children's Center as the recipient of this donation. The donation of $10,000 to benefit George Jeffrey Children's Foundation Capital Fundraising Campaign was presented by the Joint Health and Safety Committee from the sawmill. The donation is to help the organization in its final challenge to raise $1 million in the next 8 weeks prior to opening the new Centre.

"It was a great accomplishment to receive this award but an even greater reward to donate the money to the George Jeffrey Children's Foundation," said Kyle Mathers, Co-Chair of the AbitibiBowater Sawmill Joint Health & Safety Committee. "At AbitibiBowater we care about safety and enhancing the well being of our employees and their families. But, we wanted to take this one step further and reach out to our community. With this donation, AbitibiBowater is sponsoring the Maintenance Workshop in the new Centre and we will help keep the new Centre safe for the children and families it services."

With George Jeffrey Children's Foundation announcing its $1 million final challenge last week, AbitibiBowater Thunder Bay Sawmill is one of the first local organizations to step forward to contribute to this challenge.

$1,000,000 for New Centre

MPP Bill Mauro thanks Minister of Northern Development and Mines and Chair of the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund the Honourable Michael Gravelle upon presentation of $1,000,000.00 to the new Centre.

Wal-Mart Presents $60,000 to the George Jeffrey Children's Foundation

Walmart has been fundraising all year for the George Jeffrey Children's Foundation and has raised $60,000 through Clowning for Kids, staff donations and matching donations from the corporate office.

Local and regional stores who participated in helping raise these funds: Thunder Bay, Fort Frances, Kenora, Dryden, Kapuskasing, New Liskeard and Timmins locations. The generous donations will go a long way in helping with the completion of the construction of the new George Jeffrey Children's Centre. A special thanks to the Coca Cola Company for their participation. Santa is shown here presenting the cheque to Erica & Zachary.

James Richardson International to Build Toy Lending Resource Library

Thunder Bay, ON (December 14, 2007): Darwin Sobkow, Vice President of Agribusiness Operations at James Richardson International (JRI), visited Thunder Bay today to announce a gift of $50,000 to benefit the George Jeffrey Children's Foundation Capital Fundraising Campaign. JRI's donation will support the construction of the Toy Lending Resource Library in the new 35,000 square foot George Jeffrey Children's Centre.

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