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Royal LePage real estate agents help Canadians find their dream home. For those who do not have a safe and peaceful home, Royal LePage is also there, helping families in the neighbourhoods where we live and work.

Violence against women and their children is a significant problem in all communities in Canada. We are proud to be working with women’s shelters and our national partners to provide safety and hope to women and children experiencing violence and abuse.

Research tells us the following:

• Violence against women happens in all cultures and religions, in all ethnic and racial communities, at every age, and in every income group
• Half of all women in Canada have experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16¹
• Every year in Canada, an estimated 360,000 children witness family violence²
• On any given day in Canada, 3000 women (and their 2500 children) are living in an emergency shelter to escape family violence³
• On average, every six days in Canada a woman is murdered by her intimate partner.⁴
• Collectively, Canadians spend $7.4 billion each year to deal with the aftermath of spousal violence. This figure includes immediate costs such as emergency room visits, future costs such as loss of income, and intangible costs such as pain and suffering.⁵

By supporting women’s shelters, we are ensuring that women and children have a safe place to go to escape domestic violence. With our national partners, we fund healthy relationship programs for youth and support programs that help women and children heal from their experiences of abuse and rebuild their lives.

For additional research on family violence, visit www.canadianwomen.org

To make a meaningful difference at a local level, the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation matches Royal LePage offices with a women’s shelter in their community. Royal LePage brokers, agents and staff are passionate champions for their local shelter. They help organize fundraising events and many agents donate a portion of the commissions they receive when they help their clients buy or sell a home. All support stays in the local community and because Royal LePage covers the administrative costs of the Shelter Foundation, one hundred percent of the funds raised goes toward our cause. Since 1998, the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation has raised more than $46 million.

Women’s shelters direct our funding to meet their greatest needs and priorities. Shelters use our funding to provide critical services such as: trauma counseling; job training and placement; emergency transportation to the shelter; play therapy for children; homework help for youth; renovations to existing shelters; and building new shelters. In some cases, the funds are used to help women and children after they leave the shelter and move into their own accommodations.

In addition to addressing the immediate needs women and children have for safety and support, we also take a long-term view to stopping the cycle of violence. We are a founding partner of the Fourth R, a curriculum-based education program that has been delivered in 5,500 schools across North America, and we continue to help youth develop healthy relationships through annual funding of educational programs.  With the help of our national partner, the Canadian Women’s Foundation, we support grassroots programs in every province that help women rebuild their lives after violence, that help children heal and prevent them from becoming victims or abusers themselves, and that help teenagers recognize and avoid abusive relationships. As a founding national partner of the online resource sheltersafe.ca, we are making it possible for women seeking safety to identify a shelter in a specific geographic area along with its 24 hour emergency phone line. This ensures that women and children get the help they need as quickly as possible.

While we appreciate the range of shelter and housing-related needs in the community, the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation does not accept unsolicited applications or make grants outside of our current commitments.

Our National Sponsors

We are very grateful to the following companies that sponsor the Shelter Foundation’s national initiatives:

Royal LePage offices across Canada are fortunate to have many business partners who support their efforts to raise funds for the Shelter Foundation. We are very grateful for their commitment to our cause.

Recognizing Our Top Donors in 2024

We appreciate every donation made to the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation. During 2024, with your support, we raised $4.5 million in support of women’s shelters and intimate partner violence prevention. Together, we have now raised over $51 million to date! The list below represents the Top 1%, 5%, 10% and 15% of individual donors who provided commission donations or other personal financial gifts to the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation for which an official charitable donation receipt was issued.

Please click here to view the 2024 Top Donors.

Shelter Award Winners

Recipients of the Shelter Awards have made an outstanding or extraordinary contribution of time and effort to their local community or to the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation. They are nominated by their peers and recognized each year at provincial Royal LePage awards events.

Our 2024 Shelter Award Winners were:

2024 Philanthropist of the Year (National): Frank Binder, Royal LePage® Binder Real Estate

British Columbia

2024 Individual of the Year: Chris Fenton, Royal LePage® Port Alberni-Pacific Rim Realty – The Fenton Group
2024 Administrator of the Year: Rebecca Tycholiz, Royal LePage® Coast Capital Realty
2024 Team of the Year: Karen & Anthony Boos, Royal LePage® Aspire Realty
2024 Brokerage of the Year: Royal LePage® Coast Capital Realty

Prairies

2024 Individuals of the Year: Kim & John Acevedo, Royal LePage® Noralta Real Estate
2024 Administrator of the Year: Pam Bouman, Royal LePage® Community Realty
2024 Team of the Year: Team Hripko, Royal LePage® Benchmark
2024 Brokerage of the Year: Royal LePage® Noralta Real Estate

Ontario

2024 Individual of the Year: Heather Lemieux, Royal LePage® Connect Realty
2024 Administrator of the Year: Laura Lippert, Royal LePage® Royal City Realty
2024 Team of the Year: Carmela & Nick D’Amico, Royal LePage® Terrequity Realty
2024 Brokerage of the Year: Royal LePage® Wolle Realty

Quebec

2024 Individual of the Year: Cristian Butler, Royal LePage® du Quartier
2024 Administrator of the Year: Johanne Robert, Royal LePage® Canada
2024 Team of the Year: Golf tournament committee, Royal LePage® Au Sommet
2024 Brokerage of the Year: Royal LePage® Privilège 

East Coast

2024 Individual of the Year: Anne Smith, Royal LePage® Atlantic
2024 Administrator of the Year: Pat Hillier, Royal LePage® Atlantic
2024 Team of the Year: Holiday Bake Sale Committee, Royal LePage® Atlantic
2024 Brokerage of the Year: Royal LePage® Turner Realty

Past Shelter Award winners

2023 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2022 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2021 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2020 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2019 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2018 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2017 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2016 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2015 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2014 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2013 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2012 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2011 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2010 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2009 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2008 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2007 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2006 Shelter Awards (.PDF)
2005 Shelter Awards (.PDF)

Help us put an end to violence against women and children by making a donation to the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation or by participating in one of our fundraising events. You can also help by ensuring your next home purchase or sale is handled by a Royal LePage agent who makes commission donations. Use the Agent Search function to locate a Shelter Foundation commission donor.

We are very grateful for all donations. Official charitable donation receipts are provided for gifts over $20 (Charitable Reg. No. 882531304 RR0001). Please view our Tax Receipt policy.

1. To make an online donation: Make your gift in honour or in memory of a loved one or to celebrate a happy occasion. Visit our secure online donations page:

2. To make a donation by regular mail: Please send your cheque made payable to “Royal LePage Shelter Foundation” to:

Royal LePage Shelter Foundation

39 Wynford Drive, Suite 200

Toronto, ON M3C 3K5