One pledge. Ongoing Support.
One pledge. Four automatic payments. Four different ways to do good in Centre Wellington. Show up at a quarterly event to help decide where it goes, or leave it up to us. Either way, you are making a difference!
Our next event is June 16 at 7 pm at the Grandway in Elora.
Welcome to the new CW Men Who Care
Four times a year, we gather for a casual hour to learn about good work happening in our communtiiy and decide where that quarter’s money goes. You can give regardless if you come to our events or not! Sign up for your annual giving pledge here so you can give locally four times a year: Each payment is a suggested $110. $100 goes straight to the organizations the group chooses to support. $10 covers processing fees and keeps the CW Men Who Care Lights on. You can give more or less to fit your budget.
MARCH 2027
Community groups – Small organizations doing big things. A little money goes a long way when you fund the bike rack, or the laptop that changes how a volunteer-run group operates.
JUNE 16, 7pm | At the GrandWay in Elora
Nonprofits – Established organizations with boards doing groundwork that don’t always make headlines. They are building capacity and serving our community, but they cannot issue receipts.
SEPTEMBER | Date TBC
Charities – Registered organizations with the structure and scale to tackle bigger challenges. This gift comes with a tax receipt.
DECEMBER | Date TBC
CW Men Who Care Fund – Our endowment at the CW Foundation that keeps giving long after we are all gone. You are building something that compounds over time. You get a tax receipt for this one, too.
Take The CW Men Who Care Pledge
Since 2020, we’ve raised over $20,000 for local organizations.
We want to do more, give more, and we need more men. And their credit cards. Ready to share yours?
Signing up for your CW Men Pledge will take less than two minutes. Click here for a step-by-step
- Follow this link to our page at Givesome
- Scroll down and tap “Give”.
- Pick your amount: $85, $110, or $210. Or enter a custom amount.
- Under Donation frequency, tap “Quarterly”.
- Check the box beside the consent paragraph.
- Slide the tip icon all the way to the left to zero.
- Tap “Next”.
- Create a Givesome account. Use Google or email, whichever is easier. If you choose email, you will get a verification code in your inbox. Pop it in.
- On the next screen, fill in your name and address. This is for tax receipting purposes.
- Enter your credit card.
- Tap “Confirm Donation”.
- Want these instrucations as a PDF? Click here.
FAQ’s
Our friends at the Guelph-based Givesome handle all payment processing and distribute funds directly to the organizations we choose. The CW Men Who Care leadership team will tell Givesome every quarter how to distribute the funds based on input from members who attend gatherings. Givesome will also collect the $10 admin for credit card fees and operating costs (venue rentals, web hosting, etc.) which they will give to CW Men Who Care leadership. Any year-end surplus (what we don’t spend on feed, events and promotions) will be given away at the December event.
Your $100 goes directly to the organizations we support that quarter. $10 from every gift is set aside to cover processing fees and basic operating costs, such as web hosting and venue rentals. Money left over at the end of the year will be given away at our December event!
Yes. You can cancel anytime through the Givesome platform. Is your current pledge too high? You can lower it just as easily.
No problem. Your pledge runs automatically whether you attend or not. We will email updates about where each quarter’s money went, so you stay in the loop even if you can’t make the gatherings.
Yes, for two quarters. In September (charities) and December (the CW Men Who Care Fund at the CW Community Foundation), you will receive tax receipts. In March (community groups) and June (nonprofits), no receipts are issued because these organizations aren’t registered charities.
It covers credit card processing fees and CW Men Who Care’s basic operations, web hosting, venue rentals, and administrative costs. At the end of the year, we will use any surplus to go toward a special December giveaway. Because CW Men Who Care is volunteer-driven, spending is only on the bare necessities.
- Event #1 – CW Foundation COVID-19 Community Response Fund
- Event #2 – CW Foundation COVID-19 Community Response Fund
- Event #3 – Big Brothers, Big Sisters CW, Community Resource Centre, Portage (winner)
- Event #4 – Children’s Foundation of Guelph/Wellington (winner), Kids Ability, Tree Trust
- Event #5 – Strong Start, Guelph Wellington Women in Crisis (winner), CW Meals To Go
- Event #6 – CW Food Bank, The Grove Hub, Fergus, Focus on Nature (winner)
- Event #7 – Compass Community Services, the Elora Centre for the Arts (winner), Career Education Council
- Event #8 – Community Dinner, Bungalow 55, Meals on Wheels (winner)
- Event #9 – Scientists In Schools (winner), The Seed, Big Brothers Big Sisters Centre Wellington
- Event #10 – Children’s Foundation (winner), PIN, Home for Good Campaign
- Event #11 – Supporting the CW Men Who Care fund at the CW Foundation
- Event #12 – Supporting local non-profits
- Event #13 – Supporting local Sensational Elora
- Event #14 – Supporting the CW Men Who Care Fund at the CW Foundation
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