Impact Through Giving
The 2025-26 Changing Destinies Fund will support:
- Experiential Learning – When students can explore, create, and problem-solve through doing, they gain confidence, deepen their understanding, and develop skills that stay with them for life.
- Providing Ongoing Professional Development – Give our dedicated teachers access to further training that enhances personalized instruction for each student.
- Expanding Financial Aid (Bursaries) – Help remove financial barriers by increasing support so students can access the transformative education offered by Fraser Academy.
- Other Ongoing Needs
Together, we can empower our students to thrive–today and for years to come. Thank you for your commitment to empowering young dyslexic minds.
- AI & Technology Integration
- Acquire new AI platforms to enrich learning
- Train staff to embed technology into instruction
- Track writing progress with AI analytics
- Create a GPT-based tool for personalized learning plans aligned with class IEP needs
- Equip students to use AI for automation and summarization to support deeper learning
- Art Room improvements, including a refreshed space and new materials:
- Installation of new sinks and cabinets for better storage solutions to support a more organized classroom
- Purchase of new art equipment, including drying racks and modular work tables that provide additional workspace for students to express their creativity
- Abatement of the art classrooms to allow for the safe installation of new furniture
- Math Department enhancements:
- School-wide assessment tools
- Document cameras to improve the learning experience
- Multisensory hands-on learning instruments
- Access to resources and leading research for educators
- Developed common language and approaches for teaching foundational numeracy skills
- Incorporated multisensory and “concrete, representational, abstract” (CRA) methods into lesson plans
- Further developed our procedures to quickly identify each student’s prior gaps in learning, and established learning goals and targets specific to each grade
- Created resources for fluency, strategy lists for lesson plans, classroom hands-on and manipulative learning, and additional instructor tools
- Continued investment in staff and faculty in the area of remedial math instruction
- Art & Digital Media enhancements, including drafting tables, cameras, computer and audio recording equipment upgrades
- 17 classroom upgrades: custom student-centered furniture
- A new Sports Pad
- A new coding curriculum and Robotics Lab
- Renovations to the Junior and Senior Music Rooms
- Multi-purpose areas
- School-wide technology & presentation enhancements
- Smart Boards technology
- Incorporating Wellness into the Building Cognition Program
- A new 24-person school bus
Our Culture of Giving
Changing Destinies
Philanthropy leads to transformational change.
Our fundraising efforts and culture of philanthropy are key to our present and future in serving students’ learning needs.
Thank you for further investing in Fraser Academy and for changing destiny by changing minds.
Ways to Give
Donations for the benefit of Fraser Academy, including those to the Changing Destinies Fund, are received by the Changing Destinies Foundation for Dyslexia (a charity specifically established to support Fraser Academy) and/or Fraser Academy Association.
Donations are accepted in accordance with a Gift Acceptance Policy and used for the purposes for which donors designate or otherwise give Fraser Academy’s or the Foundation’s discretion to use them for.
NOTE: Annual gifts of $2,500 or more receive an invitation to the annual Board Chair’s Donor Recognition Dinner. Additionally, annual gifts of $5,000 or more will be recognized as Lifetime Donors on our donor wall.
Planned giving is an inspiring and transformational way to make a meaningful donation today with a lasting impact for tomorrow. It provides the opportunity to invest in our students for generations to come, and ensure the optimal educational environment for them at Fraser Academy.
Planned giving options include bequests (naming Fraser Academy as a beneficiary in your will), life insurance and other products (through donating these products, or again naming Fraser Academy as a beneficiary).
Also, planned giving may provide certain tax benefits to you or your estate. We can work with you and your tax, legal and financial advisers on planned gift options.
Information on planned giving provided by Fraser Academy does not constitute legal, tax or financial advice and such professional advice should be sought in the process of structuring such a gift.
Connect With Us
For more information on donations, how to make a gift or questions regarding your tax receipt, please contact the Advancement Office at 604 736 5575 or advancement@fraseracademy.ca.