The Massawippi Valley Health Foundation

The Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation actively engaged in promoting the health and wellness of citizens in the Massawippi Valley and beyond and support the strengthening of Quebec’s healthcare system.

Our primary mission is to actively identify gaps in the healthcare system and raise funds to address them, reimagining access to community healthcare. A key priority is to facilitate access to primary and preventive care, closer to home. 
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About us

The Massawippi Valley Health Foundation (MVHF)

The Foundation serves to financially support a community of concerned citizens who are dedicated to improving the health of citizens and to strengthening the Quebec healthcare system.

The Foundation currently supports the CVSM clinic in Ayer’s Cliff, which has been in operation since 2015 and now has nearly 3,000 members.

There is also an opportunity to replicate the successful model of the Ayer’s Cliff clinic by developing small local health clinics, which would serve as “satellites” of the Ayer’s Cliff clinic. Our vision is to fund and operate clinics throughout the Massawippi Valley area over the next few years, offering services such as nursing and medical assessments, blood and urine testing, vaccinations, and minor emergency care. 

It is registered as a charitable organization with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and Revenu Québec.

Charitable: 84263 7571 RR0001

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2014 ​

Founding date

$1,000,000

The Foundation has raised more than $1,000,000 to help improve the lives of thousands of residents of the communities of the Massawippi Valley.

IMPACT OF YOUR DONATIONS

Thank You

The Massawippi Valley Health Foundation acknowledges the invaluable support of its donors, volunteers and partners. You are essential in the pursuit of our mission.

Established CSVM

The community-owned cooperative, CSVM, was opened in 2015 thanks to a campaign that raised $400,000 for the renovation and equipping of a heritage building in Ayer’s Cliff. It now has almost 3,000 members.

Ongoing Support for CSVM

The Massawippi Valley Health Foundation (MVHF) continues to support the ongoing operations not covered by membership fees.  A few examples include:

  • Nursing Care such as blood pressure checks, recording clients’ medical history and responding to the day-to-day medical needs of its members.
  • Friday Blood Clinic made possible by La Caisse Desjardins du Lac- Memphrémagog for staffing and a donation from the Massawippi Foundation for the purchase of a refrigerated centrifuge machine, required to process blood samples.
  • Renovation of lower level:  Thanks to the generous support from La Caisse Desjardins du Lac-Memphrémagog and La Caisse Desjardins des Verts-Sommets de l’Estrie the Wellness Centre, opened in 2019, provides healthy living options for our community. The Centre provides exercise programs, personal fitness, seminars, nutrition choices, and network-building as well as physiotherapy and massage therapy.  A grant from the Federal government provided funds to make this level accessible for those with mobility issues.

Donors and Supporters

Donations $1,000 and more – from 2014 to date

  • 9130-6647 Québec Inc.
  • Arthur et Diane LaPenna
  • Banque CIBC
  • Bertrand St-Laurent
  • Beverley & Leon Dyer
  • Carol & Mike Mooney
  • Catherine Milne
  • Chantal Touzin
  • Charles Larson
  • Claude Séguin
  • Claudia Wardman
  • Crook Touzin Family Sunset Fund
  • D’Arcy Ryan
  • Darliene Wood
  • David & Mary Monty
  • David & Susan Tunnell
  • Dian Cohen
  • Donald Bishop
  • Dorel Industries
  • Edwin Cohen
  • Elizabeth Ann Dolan
  • Fondation Bannerman
  • Fondation Carmand Normand
  • Fondation de la Famille Lemaire
  • Fondation Massawippi Foundation 
  • Fondation Robert Charest
  • Fonds régional de Tillotson Coaticook
  • Geoffrey & Jane Warren
  • Global Excel
  • Guy Jolicoeur
  • Heather Wynne & Ed Pomykala
  • Helena & Jim Brodie
  • Hon. Jean Charest
  • Jake & Jocelyne Knoppers
  • James Crook
  • Jean Claude Brais
  • Jean-Pierre Lefebvre
  • Jeffrey & Debra Stafford
  • Jeremy Stairs & Nancy Layron
  • Joanne & Robert Henderson
  • John Oldland
  • Judith & Philip Webster Foundation
  • Kelley Cosgrove
  • La Caisse Desjardins des Verts-Sommets de l’Estrie
  • La Caisse Desjardins du Lac-Memphrémagog
  • Lilian Safdie
  • Lucy Hensel
  • Marché Tradition Guy Patry
  • Mary & André Labbée
  • Mary Webster
  • Melanie Drew
  • Melodie Yates
  • Michael Crook
  • Michael Everett
  • Michael Ogilvie & Anne Watson
  • Michael Sudlow
  • Michel Laumaillier
  • Michel Rodrigue
  • Mike Bresee
  • Mobile Reve Que-Sud
  • Municipalité d’Ayers Cliff
  • Neil Riddell & Marie-Eve Bouffard
  • New Horizons (Federal Government)
  • N’Oubliez Charitable Foundation
  • Patterson & Norman Webster
  • Penelope S. Eakin
  • Peter Provencher
  • R. Howard Webster Foundation
  • Robert Charest
  • Robert Farnham
  • Rotary Club of the Boundary
  • Sarah Preston
  • Sonia Nepton
  • Stanley Holmes
  • Stephen & Barbara Allatt Foundation
  • Stephen & Katherine Stafford 
  • Stephen Allatt Stuart & Jill Cobbett
  • Susan Fitzpatrick
  • Susan McDougall
  • Susan Taylor Holmes
  • Suzanne & Raymond Nault
  • Tony Straessle
  • Vincent Cuddihy
  • William Robson & Lissa McRae
  • Wulftec 

Contribute monetarily each month and multiply the impact of your donation.

You determine the amount you wish to donate. This amount will be automatically deducted from your credit card.

You can modify, suspend or cancel your commitment at any time.

A tax receipt will be issued at the end of the year for the total amount of your monthly donations.

  • Barry Shineton
  • Therrien Couture Jolicoeur
  • Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau, c.p. Compton-Stanstead
  • Hovey Manor
  • Les Marchés Tradition Patry & Fils Ayer’s Cliff
  • Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton (RCTG)
David Griffith

Innovative Support for the Well-Being of Our Seniors

Although primary care for health issues remains a key priority, our healthcare professionals’ philosophy is rooted in prevention and the well-being of our citizens, including their mental health. These ambitious projects reflect our commitment to addressing the pressing needs of our community while strengthening local healthcare infrastructure and continuing our support for seniors in the region, including the English-speaking community.

The Seniors Program helps older adults in our communities build connections and overcome isolation. Social engagement among seniors in the Massawippi Valley is essential to their well-being. The Foundation shares the community’s goal of keeping our seniors healthy, fulfilled, and aging in a place that suits them best. Through the dedication of coordinators located in Lennoxville, Ayer’s Cliff, Huntingville, Fitch Bay, Ogden, Coaticook, and Baldwin Mills, the Foundation provides moral support and resources during regular group meetings aimed at keeping rural and remote seniors informed and connected.

  • SOCIAL CAFÉ – Funded by a grant from the Tillotson Coaticook Region Fund, this initiative emphasizes the importance of regular socialization for seniors in our community. Once a month, participants gather to learn new concepts about healthy cooking, technology, medical access, play games, and engage in discussions. Another grant from the Tillotson Coaticook Region Fund allowed the purchase of videoconferencing equipment to host remote board meetings, webinars, and seminars on health-related topics.
  • CONNECTING SENIORS Project — Funded by grants from the Canada Community Foundation and the New Horizons for Seniors Program (55+), this project prioritizes isolated seniors living in their own homes. It has enabled participants to learn how to navigate the internet, use a tablet or laptop to stay in touch with friends and family, and participate in activities such as walks, lectures, workshops, exercise classes, and luncheons.

Either a one-time gift of cash or cheque and/or a one-time donation
or a monthly donation through DonorPerfect

Gifts of stocks, bonds, mutual funds and securities do not
incur the capital gains tax.

Simply instruct your broker to transfer your shares directly from your account to the Foundation’s account.

The Foundation sells the shares as soon as it receives them, and our broker makes an electronic transfer to the Foundation’s account.

We’ll send you a tax receipt for the fair market value on the date of transfer, and you’ll pay no capital gains tax.

Please note that this process can take up to four weeks.

Please download the form and send it to us at information@fsvm.ca

Leave your legacy with a planned gift – a donation that you arrange now to be realized in the future. Planned gifts include gifts in your will and gifts of life insurance. The legal name of the Foundation is Massawippi Valley Health Foundation or Fondation santé vallée Massawippi.

You can designate FSVM as a beneficiary or co-beneficiary on an existing life insurance policy, and your estate will receive a tax credit.

Some of our donors choose to donate to honour or in memory of a family member or someone special in their lives by making a commemorative gift.

When you make a gift in another person’s name, the honouree is notified and, for gifts of $20 or more, you receive a charitable tax receipt. All gifts of $20.00 or more are eligible for a tax receipt.

Investing in the region

5 ways to give

The Massawippi Valley Health Foundation (“MVHF”) provides community leadership by offering
individuals, corporations and foundations the opportunity to invest in the betterment of healthcare in our region. Your donations in any form – from a one-time donation to a long-term commitment – are invested by directly supporting the Massawippi Valley region’s healthcare needs primarily through the Centre de la Santé de la vallée Massawippi (CSVM).

For more information about any of the above Ways of Giving, please contact us

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Our Team

Michel Rodrigue

President

After a 35 year career as a television broadcaster, producer and international distributor,playing a key role in driving the television Format industry to worldwide prominence, Michel started a new role at helming The Format People. During the past 10 years, his broad- ranging work has included substantial mandates with major broadcasters and production companies including Warner Bros, FOX Reality, Fremantle Media and Star China; executive- mentoring of leading figures in the TV business, and developing major infrastructure projects such as building Mongol TV from the ground-up into one the country’s leading broadcaster. Michel was honored with a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Minister of Cultural Affairs, Mr. Jacques Toubon, from the government of France and is an active member of the international television community.

Judy A. Hopps

Vice-President

Judy brings 30 plus years in the field of philanthropy working with a variety of
non-profit organizations in nstitutional advancement, major gift fundraising, corporate communications and donor relations. Her specialty is volunteer management and fundraising strategy. Judy is retired and now lives full time just outside the City of Magog. She is currently President of Memphremagog Wetlands Foundations, Chair of the Fundraising and Communications Committee for the Lampe Foundation, President, Quebec Council of CFUW and Regional Vice President, Quebec, National Board, Canadian Federation of University Women.

Chantal Touzin

Treasurer

Chantal Touzin is an Assurance Partner at the Sherbrooke office of Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton, a professional services firm dedicated to the success of organizations and their leaders. Chantal has over 25 years assurance and consulting experience with a predominantly English-speaking clientele in the Eastern Townships. Her extensive and diverse experience allows her to support her clients in their accounting and financial management challenges.

Lucie Brosseau

General manager

A graduate of Laval University and a woman entrepreneur for 10 years, she then turned to the tourism industry for over 20 years, where she was entrusted with management mandates in the hotel industry, project and event management, fund-raising, coaching and training. For nearly 5 years, she was CEO of 2 groups of SPAS in Quebec (NPO). She then spent 7 years managing an RPA for the Chartwell Group in Sherbrooke, the largest group in Canada. Her quest for new challenges has always been to co-create and contribute to the implementation of meaningful projects in line with her values. It was in this spirit that she accepted a 2-year mandate as Executive Director of the Memphrémagog Hospital Foundation. She has also sat́ on several boards of directors and has always been actively involved in her community, firmly believing in the power of networking and strategic alliances.

Carol Mooney

Director

Carol Mooney has been an educator in the Eastern Townships for thirty-five years in a variety of levels – elementary, high school, and university. During the last ten years of her local career, she was Director of Practice Teaching in the School of Education, Bishop’s University. From 2003-2007, she was a member of a Canadian team working in Kosovo and Serbia to establish a Faculty of Education. As a volunteer, she has served as President of CFUW, Sherbrooke & District. Currently she is a board member of the Lampe Scholarship Foundation. Carol was a founder and the first president of Centre de Santé de la Vallée Massawippi. She participates in golf, cycling and gardening.

Marie-Eve Bouffard

Director

A native of the area, Marie-Eve, along with her husband and their six children, are deeply rooted in the community. She and her husband have owned a business in Sherbrooke for sixteen years. She was involved with Vision Santé Idéale, a charity supporting children from disadvantaged backgrounds. She also served as vice president of the Vision School board in Sherbrooke for many years and continues to act as a consultant. Marie-Eve has always had the well-being of the community and healthcare at heart.

Royal Orr

Director

Royal Orr is a strategic communications advisor and trainer with a career background in community organizing, journalism, and broadcasting. He is a consultant with Les Communications Royal Orr, an Affiliate Member of Faculty at McGill’s Ingram School of Nursing, and farms 150 acres in Hatley.

He was the volunteer President of Alliance Quebec in the late 1980’s, then became a radio personality with CJAD and CBC Radio in Montreal.

He went from journalism into communications and public relations as a vice president at Cossette Communications in Montreal and a Senior Member of Faculty with the Canada School of Public Service.

Dian Cohen

Founder

Ambassador’s Council

Ambassadors of the Massawippi Valley Health Foundation are an advisory body formed to assist
the President and Executive Directors of the MVHF Board with relationship building to better
connect the communities in the Massawippi Valley with the mission and programs of the
Foundation.

Helen Antoniou

Helen Antoniou is an executive coach for corporate leaders and their
teams, as well as family business owners and their successors. She is
the Chair of the Board of Governors of Concordia University. Helen
lectures on leadership and the governance of family businesses at
institutions such as the MIT Sloan School of Management and the
ICD-Rotman Directors Education Program. Helen holds Civil and Common Law degrees from McGill University, a master’s in law from Université de Paris II, and a master’s in public health from Harvard University. She became certified as an executive
coach at the Hudson Institute of Coaching in Santa Barbara, California. Her community involvement focuses on health and education. In May 2018, Helen published the business biography, “Back to Beer… and Hockey: The Story of Eric Molson”, that she wrote about her father-in-law and past chairman of Molson Coors Beverage Company, which was on the Top 10 Non-Fiction Books list of the Globe and Mail.

Testimonials

Before the clinic opened, I had to go to the emergency ward at Magog Hospital once a month as I have no
family doctor. Since the clinic opened, I can now see the nurses, the physiotherapist when needed. The nurses
will fit me in to see the doctor when necessary.
From a North Hatley resident
I can’t find the words to describe how I feel about the clinic: it’s bilingual! The fees are extraordinarily low! I love Nurse Ines and all the staff!
Monica Perdriel
I am always well satisfied with the clinic. All the medical and non-medical staff are prompt and polite. I don’t have to travel long distances. Winter travel isn’t necessary. They offer follow-ups. I like that I don’t have to go to Magog for a blood test.
Norma Ellis

Contact us

Please leave us your name and contact information, as well as your message, and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you!

P.O. Box 2658, North Hatley, QC J0B 2C0

Lucie Brosseau, GM | luciebrosseau@gmail.com
information@fsvm.ca

information@fsvm.ca

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