Mothers Matter Centre 20th Anniversary

Mothers Matter Centre
START
07
October 2020
09:00 AM PDT
END
22
October 2020
09:00 AM PDT
RAISED
$14,760.00
GOAL $20,000.00
73.8% To Goal

About Our Auction

The Mothers Matter Centre’s 20th Anniversary Celebration and presentation of its annual Because Mothers Matter Awards will take place, virtually, on October 21, 2020.

This year, the MMC, proud home of the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program, celebrates 20 years of changing lives in Canada. It is a journey of 20,000 low-income newcomer, refugee, Indigenous and other Canadian mothers who have overcome unique educational, linguistic, and cultural barriers and who share courage, determination, and resilience.

The event will include the story of the MMC as well as the Because Mothers Matter Awards. To mark this important milestone, the MMC sought the guidance of Indigenous supporters and champions to provide advice on ways to pay respect and recognize the organization’s two decades of outstanding work. As a result, our Indigenous partners have graciously agreed to guide the MMC in a traditional blanketing ceremony at the event to honour accomplished mothers’ exceptional community work.

We kindly ask that you support us in this event through the purchase of a private virtual Zoom room for you and your guests.


About Mothers Matter Centre

The Mothers Matter Centre (MMC) — previously known as the Home Instruction Program for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) Canada — is a not-for-profit, registered charity incorporated in October 2001. We are a virtual, national consortium of organizations dedicated to serving socially isolated and low economic status mothers and their families using our proven mother-to-mother approach.

Since our inception, the Mothers Matter Centre has helped more than 20,000 mothers gain new skills and abilities essential to strengthening mother-child relationships. This means at least 20,000 children and families were better prepared to get the most from their early school experiences.

Piloted in Canada in 2000 at the Britannia Community Service Centre in Vancouver, BC, our foundational program — HIPPY— has grown to over 28 sites, each of which helps 35 – 100 families per year. The HIPPY programs are operated by settlement and Indigenous Social Purpose Organizations (SPOs) and First Nations communities. We will continue to grow and sustain HIPPY while developing other program innovations such as housing assistance, job-skills training, literacy and language training, healthcare, and more.

We are committed to a comprehensive performance management process (PMP) that holds itself accountable to its stakeholders, funders, and, most importantly, to the families served. This process gives us the real-time data needed to adjust programming strategies to better serve clients. The performance management approach helps us and our partners measure and understand the process of change.

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