Create your legacy by leaving a gift in your will to CAMH.

Ways to Give and What You Need to Know

We are pleased to provide you with some information to guide conversations with loved ones and advisors.

Here are the 3 most common gifts in wills:

1. You can leave a specific dollar amount.

2. You can leave a residual bequest where you can donate a percentage or the remainder of your estate after other needs have been fulfilled.

3. You can leave a contingent bequest made on the condition of a certain event.

Your advisor will be able to provide final text, but this is a good place to start.

"I give the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Foundation [the sum of $_________] or [___% of the residue of my estate.]"

You'll also need our address and our charitable registration number to properly update your will:

CAMH Foundation
100 Stokes Street, 5th Floor
Bell Gateway Building
Toronto, ON M6J 1H4

Charitable registration number: 106932320RR0001

Resources

Your Free Will Guide 
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Your Legacy, Your Values, Your Will: 4 Steps to Getting Started

Here are 4 steps to help you get started. We hope this information is helpful when you have conversations with your loved ones and your advisors.

  • Review your assets. This includes your home, your valuables, your investments and more.
  • Remember your loved ones. Consider what you wish to leave for your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews or other loved ones.
  • Reflect on your values. We invite you to talk to us about what you hope your gift will accomplish.
  • With the help of your loved ones and your advisors, create or update your will and consider what type of legacy gift is best for you.
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Ted's Story

I've had colleagues, friends, and family all affected by mental illness in various forms, and CAMH has played a critical role in helping them recover. Directly or indirectly, mental illness affects all of us, which is why I am an enthusiastic supporter of CAMH's work. Over the past years, my interest has deepened in the hospital's research initiatives geared toward understanding and treating mental illness. 

While expanding emergency care and broadening the availability of treatment is absolutely crucial, I believe we also need to push hard on developing targeted solutions that are fine-tuned for the different ways individuals can suffer. We urgently need to make progress on deepening our understanding of the brain and sustain this effort into the future.

CAMH is responding today while investigating the future of mental illness treatment. I have tremendous confidence in CAMH: many of the research discoveries that have already been established as treatments were only notions when I first engaged with the hospital 20 years ago. And I know that 20 years from now, we will have made more astounding progress. Given the complexity of the human brain, there are more discoveries to make and more innovations to develop. That’s why CAMH is a beneficiary in my will - so I can continue to support this cause for a long time to come. My teenage daughters and I have open and honest conversations about my will and my legacy. They are reassured that they are part of my legacy, but also very proud that supporting CAMH is part of our family plan.

Resources

Your Free Will Guide
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