We believe everyone should have the opportunity to thrive. Help us Even the Odds!
In Canada, our household income, education, and experiences of discrimination strongly affect our odds of staying healthy.
That’s why Staples and MAP – Canada’s largest health equity research centre, based at St. Michael’s Hospital – have joined forces to Even the Odds. Through evidence-based solutions from MAP’s researchers and community partners across Canada, we’re working to help end childhood health inequities, break down barriers to care and disease prevention, and create pathways out of chronic homelessness.
Please donate today and help us bring Even the Odds programs to more communities. Staples will match your donation, up to $500K per year.
Even the Odds funds groundbreaking programs across the country, including:
APPLE Schools
an award-winning, school-based health promotion project for elementary students in underserved communities (Alberta, Ontario, Manitoba)
Our Healthbox
“Smart” vending machines that dispense free HIV self-tests and other health supplies such as naloxone (Atlantic Provinces)
Navigator
An outreach program that helps patients who are homeless recover after a hospitalization, by connecting them with healthcare and social services in the community (British Columbia, Quebec)
Healthy Food Prescription
The largest-ever research trial to understand the potential of food vouchers (prescribed by physicians) to prevent chronic disease complications among people with low incomes (British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec
The Ayaangwaamiziwin Centre
A ground-breaking HIV and STBBI testing, treatment and prevention initiative for underserved and remote communities (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Yukon, Nunavut, Northwest Territories)
