CIBC Miracle Day

To a child in need, even the smallest gift can be a miracle. Whether it's through support of a breakfast program that provides students with a healthy start to their school day or recreational programs that build a child's confidence and self-esteem, CIBC Miracle Day has a tradition of making a difference in the lives of children.

Since its inception in 1984, CIBC Miracle Day has raised more than $190 million globally, including $50 million in Canada, to benefit children in communities around the world.

On the first Wednesday of December each year, CIBC's wholesale banking sales and trading staff and CIBC Wood Gundy Investment Advisors donate their fees and commissions. These gifts help more than 400 children's charities across Canada who make miracles happen in our communities every day.

• The 2009 CIBC Miracle Day raised over $3.5 million across Canada
• Whether it is medical attention, shelter in the midst of crisis or extra help with schoolwork, the Miracle touches the lives of hundreds of young people
• Miracle Day funds are donated to over 400 children's charities in communities across Canada

Miracle Day is one of Canada's largest one-day corporate fundraising events devoted to children's charities.

The CIBC Children's Foundation has three areas of focus: health, education and well-being. Here are some examples of organizations that the Foundation supports:

The Hockey Education Reaching Out Society (H.E.R.O.S.) is committed to empowering children through ice hockey. The program focuses on boys and girls of diverse ethnicity from economically challenged neighborhoods. The premise of H.E.R.O.S. is to use the game of hockey as a catalyst to attract youth to a program offering support for education self-esteem building and life skills training.

The Halton Learning Foundation collaborates with the Halton District School Board to remove economic barriers to learning for students in need. The Foundation allocates resources to enrich educational opportunities and support school initiatives.

Bloorview Kids Rehab is Canada's largest children's rehabilitation hospital that is committed to creating a world of possibility for kids with disability. Bloorview pioneers treatments, technologies, therapies and real-world programs that give children with disabilities the tools to participate fully in life.

Zebra Child Protection Centre integrates a multi-disciplinary community of professionals in a child-centred environment that enables them to respond to child abuse with a professional, compassionate and highly integrated program of healing and justice.

Centre de répit Philou welcomes physically disabled children of up to twelve years of age for periods that can vary from one day to three weeks at a time to offer respite to parents.