A purpose-built building is a profound gift. Actualizing the vision of exceptional care — the kind of care Neshama was designed and built to hold — requires equipment, systems, set up, training, and the sustained philanthropic investment that brings it all to reality. Your gift will help make that happen.
For gifts of $10,000 or more and/or to make payment over multiple years, please contact donations@neshamahospice.com.
Neshama Hospice will open its doors in less than a year, and this final stretch is critical. Before the doors can open, we must hire nurses and social workers, recruit and train volunteers, install and test equipment, and put the systems in place that make exceptional care possible.
Ontario’s Ministry of Health will contribute ONLY 50% of our annual operating costs, approximately $152,250 per bed annually. Like all hospices in Ontario, the funding for the remaining 50% of operating costs will always need to come from dedicated and generous donors such as you.
Your support is what will make Neshama Hospice a place where people are surrounded by love and supported by expert care at end-of-life—at no cost.
We need you now!
Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of our inaugural donors, fundraising for building construction of Neshama Hospice has been reached. Our purpose-built hospice residence is rising because our community chose to make it happen and committed to building a future of exceptional end-of-life care.
Now we are in the most important countdown of all: the months between a completed building and a hospice fully prepared to begin caring for residents and families. We are grateful for the dedicated donors who helped raise the walls; now we need dedicated donors to help realize the care and support that will take place inside those walls.
A building is rising. Help open the doors.
Neshama Hospice’s 12-bed residence on Cadillac Avenue is a testament to what a community can accomplish together. The building reflects values we are committed to: dignity, excellence, and care for the whole person.
Delivering exceptional care — the kind of care this residence was built to hold — requires the equipment, set up, training, programs, people, and resources that only philanthropic investment can sustain. In the months ahead, there is a tremendous amount of work to be done before a single resident can be welcomed:
We are in our Countdown to Care: the critical months between construction completion and becoming a fully operational hospice filled with residents. Generous, visionary donors have built these walls, and we are counting on generous, visionary donors to ensure that inside them we fulfill the promise of Neshama Hospice.
At end-of-life families and loved ones often become caregivers and medical managers, losing the essence of who they are to one another. We need to change that story.
Purpose-built beds providing 24/7 care
Residents and families served annually
avg cost per day/per hospice bed versus $1,378 per day/per hospital bed1
of ongoing operations funded by donors — Ontario’s hospice funding model
1 This figure assumes strong volunteer coverage and does not include grief and bereavement programming. Excellence in care requires more.
Every donor contributing to this foundational phase of Neshama Hospice with a gift of $10,000 or more will be recognized on the walls of our residence. This is a tribute to the people who believed in and helped make it everything it was built to be.
Philanthropy is the foundation of hospice care in Ontario. Your investment in Neshama Hospice will help establish the full experience of care — the clinical excellence, the grief support, the human presence — that partial government funding alone cannot provide.
Your instant gift helps us complete construction and gets us closer to doors open. Help families today.
Provide sustaining support all year, ensuring care and comfort for hundreds of families.
Honour a loved one with a donation in their name. Ensure their memory supports a new beginning of care and connection for others.
Leave a lasting mark through bequests or estate gifts. Join those whose names will be celebrated in Neshama’s founding story.
Leaving a gift in your Will is a powerful way to make a lasting impact to transform end-of-life care. If you’re considering a legacy gift and would like to learn more, we’re happy to help. Contact us today to start a conversation.
Neshama Hospice
c/o 2041 Avenue Road
Toronto, ON M5M 4A5
647-289-7200
info@neshamahospice.com
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Neshama Hospice
c/o 2041 Avenue Road
Toronto, ON M5M 4A5
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Provide multi-year support all year, ensuring care and comfort for hundreds of families.
You can create an enduring family legacy and help families face their hardest moments with multi-year support and care they need. Naming opportunities are available for donations of $250,000 or more. For more information contact Lisa Kronenberg at lisa.kronenberg@neshamahospice.com
Neshama Hospice will be the first hospice residence in Canada built on Jewish values and open to all. It will be the first hospice residence in North York, one of Toronto’s largest communities. Built in the heart of North York, we are creating a sanctuary where the deepest human values—lovingkindness, dignity, and community—transform the final chapter of life from an ending into a supported journey that wraps around every resident and their loved ones.
We are a registered charity, and our charitable registration number is: 7659 13892RR0001.
Our journey started in 2014, when a dedicated and diverse team of physicians, social workers, community care and clergy professionals, all with extensive experience in the field of palliative care, came together to form Neshama Hospice. Since then, we’ve welcomed development professionals, architects, archivists, builders, and we are building an interprofessional community of care supported by dedicated volunteers.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Lisa Kronenberg, MSW, RSW
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS: Laura Mandell
MEDICAL DIRECTOR: Dr. Russell Goldman
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
FOUNDERS
Construction for Neshama Hospice is funded through substantial philanthropy from Toronto's Jewish community, along with others dedicated to Neshama’s vision, mission and values, with support from the Ontario Ministry of Health.
While government funding covers approximately 50% of hospice operations in Ontario, the remaining costs must be raised through community support. Donations ensure we can establish and operate, providing exceptional and comprehensive care and support in a home-like environment at no cost to families.
Your donations will directly help build the first hospice in North York, Toronto and Canada’s first hospice built on Jewish values and open to all. You are helping to bring holistic end-of-life care and support to thousands of people each year.
Yes! All donations above $10 receive a tax receipt as per Canada Revenue Agency guidelines.
If your donation is made online, a tax receipt will be emailed to you immediately to your email address. For all other donations, a tax receipt will be sent by mail or email. In the event that your receipt has been lost or misplaced or you have moved, a duplicate receipt can be issued. Please call us at 1-647-289-7200 or email us at info@neshamahospice.com.
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Thank you for considering giving to Neshama Hospice. We want all donors to feel confident about how their gift will benefit our community. Please feel free to contact our team with questions or ideas.
Neshama Hospice
c/o 2041 Avenue Road
Toronto, ON M5M 4A5
647-289-7200
info@neshamahospice.com
