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 to directly support young people in and from foster care.

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, education 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

Option 1: Create Your Own Fundraising Page

You can easily set up your fundraiser through Canada Helps

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

Option 2: Request a StepStones P2P Fundraising Package

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

Reach out to tooba@stepstonesforyouth.com to create a customized experience tailored to your event and fundraising goals.

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.