Sponsorship

02 Feb

TCBC Spotlight on Dwayne Morgan

Dwayne Morgan is a two-time Canadian National Poetry Slam Champion. He began his career as a spoken word artist in 1993.  In 1994, he founded Up From The Roots entertainment, to promote the positive artistic contributions of African Canadian and urban-influenced artists. Morgan made the 2022 Shifter Magazine list of outstanding Black men in Canada, while also winning the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Celebration of Cultural Life award and the 2018 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award for Career Achievement in the Spoken...

13 Dec

Toronto Maple Reefers ParrotHead Club

About the Toronto Maple Reefers ParrotHead Club, the 184th PHiP-sanctioned official ParrotHead club in the world! Founded in Fall 2003, we adopted the “party with a purpose” mandate of all Parrothead clubs. Our Club holds regular social events to benefit the environment & local charities, primarily  Children’s Breakfast Clubs. This non-profit believes that every child deserves a nutritious breakfast. They serve an estimated 4,000 meals each week across the Greater Toronto area. The Maplereefers held the Annual Christmas...

30 Aug

Meet Michelle Siman

We interviewed a proud Tim Horton franchisee and TCBC supporter, Michelle Siman. Here is the interview: Angharad Hatt: Can you tell me a bit about who you are, your family, a little bit about you? Michelle Siman: I’m Michelle. Our Family, my dad, has been part of the Tim Hortons family for 25 years actually, as a broker. So like, growing up, Tim Hortons was all around me, I was pretty much raised with it. There was at one point where I decided...

30 Aug

Meet Ella Jo

We had the privilege to interview Ella Jo, a proud Tim Horton’s franchisee and TCBC supporter! Angharad Hatt: Can you tell me a bit about you, your family, who you are? Ella Jo: Sure, so my family, my parents, started with the organization back in 2000. It’s been over 20 years since we joined Tim Hortons and then me and my brother, we are still working for Tim Horton’s now, and then my sister’s, well there’s four of us, so my two...

05 Aug

Meet the Papageorge Family

Our TCBC Spotlight interview with Alexander Papageorge and Ben Papageorge: Angharad Hatt: Can you tell me a bit about you, who you are? Alexander Papageorge:  I’m Alex and this is Ben. I’m the youngest of three brothers, so there are three of us, Leo, Alex, and Ben. My parents started 30 years ago. To be exact, since ‘92 so 29 years ago. Obviously, we are their children taking over the family business. All of us are involved, running it and just keeping...

18 Mar

Celebrating Tim Hortons!

The Children’s Breakfast Clubs is very excited to announce that we have been selected as the 2021 Toronto Tim Hortons Smile Cookie benefactor. TCBC operates solely through donations from our sponsors, our largest supporter being Tim Hortons.  Over the past 8 years, we have received over $1.7M in funds from the Tim Hortons Smile Cookie program – now that’s a lot of SMILE COOKIES!  This has enabled us to provide over 3.4 million meals to school-age children. ...

22 May

Thank you, Daytrippers

Despite the dark cloud of the pandemic, we’re so happy to share some joy with you that has certainly brightened our year thus far. Our friends of the Daytrippers Charity organization recently donated $50,000 dollars to The Children’s Breakfast Clubs and we are absolutely over the moon. The Daytrippers Charity organization is focused on bringing Canadian children experiences that build confidence, curiosity and bright futures. They are able to bring these experiences by funding school trips for K-8 that...