Peer-to-Peer Fundraising: Bring Your Community Together for a Purpose

Looking for a meaningful way to celebrate a birthday, honour a milestone, run a marathon, host a dinner party, or rally your workplace? Peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising empowers you to raise funds on behalf of StepStones for Youth and directly support young people in and from foster care.

Create Your Fundraiser with Canada Helps!

When you start a P2P fundraiser for StepStones, you’re raising awareness of the realities youth face when leaving foster care at the required age of 18, and helping ensure they have stable housing, educational support, and lifelong connections.

 

Why Start a Peer-to-Peer Fundraiser?

Multiply Your Impact

  • When you share your fundraiser with friends, family, and colleagues, your network becomes part of the solution. Small donations add up quickly and create lasting change.

Celebrate with Purpose

  • Birthdays, weddings, athletic challenges, corporate team-building events, school initiatives– any moment can become an opportunity to give back.

Directly Support Youth 

Funds raised through P2P campaigns help provide: 

  • Stable housing supports 
  • Education and employment programming 
  • Caring adult connections and mentorship 
  • Community-building opportunities 

It’s Easy to Set Up: Create your page, personalize your story, and start sharing – we’ll support you along the way!

How to Get Started

There are two options for starting your own fundraiser:

You can easily set up your fundraiser through Canada Helps:

Create Your Fundraiser Page

 The platform will allow you to:  

  • Customize your page 
  • Set a fundraising goal 
  • Share your story 
  • Track donations in real time 
  • Send charitable tax receipts automatically through CanadaHelps 

We can also provide:

  • A digital P2P toolkit (logos, brand assets, impact stats, messaging guidance) 
  • Sample email and social media templates 
  • Graphics for Instagram and LinkedIn 
  • Key talking points about StepStones’ impact 
  • Staff support to help promote your campaign 

Want a little extra guidance? We’re here to help. 

Reach out to create a customized experience tailored to your event and fundraising goals:

 

Contact Us to Get Started

Gather for Good

Gather for Good is StepStones’ primary peer-to-peer initiative inspired by our Weekly Youth Community Dinners, where community comes together around shared meals, stories, and connection. The campaign invites individuals, families, and organizations to host their own Gather for Good events, bringing people together in their homes, workplaces, or communities to raise awareness and support for youth involved in child welfare. Every gathering helps fuel critical programs that strengthen housing stability, education, employment, and long-term belonging for young people from foster care.Learn More about Gather for Good

When you fundraise for StepStones for Youth, you’re helping ensure that young people leaving foster care are not alone. You’re helping build stability, connection, and opportunity, one campaign at a time.