Sage Youth Workbooks
Sage Youth Donations Gift Catalogue
Sponsor a Hero
Support a Sage Youth Student for a Year
$350
Your generous gift will provide a student with literacy and mentoring programming for an entire school year. Your spirit of giving will be present in the life of a young person from a low-income, new Canadian, special needs or homeless community and will provide:
- a welcoming place for him or her to learn and grow in a positive, supportive environment
- the priceless gifts of literacy skills and the precious confidence that those skills build
- caring, enthusiastic, well-trained volunteers who specialize in working with youth who need extra support to succeed
- originally created, inclusive Sage Youth workbooks, full of engaging stories and activities to motivate youth to learn about Canadian culture and how to become role models in our diverse society
Supplying the Essentials
Class supplies for a full program for a year
$200
Student attention spans are sometimes in short supply! Unfortunately, so are paper, pencils, pens, erasers, pencil sharpeners and dictionaries…the basic tools needed for reading and writing, teaching and sharing knowledge.Your gift goes directly to the classroom to provide essential materials for a full year of programming. From pencils and rulers to guest speakers and reference books, your contribution will equip tutor/mentors with the tools they need to help children learn to read, write and be confident about learning.
To sponsor a class supplies kit for a program for one year is only $200.00.
There’s the bell…please donate now!
Mentoring Wisdom
Train a volunteer literacy tutor-mentor - $50
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Sage Youth programs strive to bring the gift of literacy through free mentoring programs to high-need children and youth. Without the help of our talented, dedicated volunteer tutors and mentors, we could never deliver the gift of literacy—and hope—to these wonderful children and youth. Each volunteer is screened and trained in our approach to literacy skills development.
Perhaps you would like to volunteer but cannot, then why not donate $50 toward the cost of training one literacy volunteer tutor-mentor to help defray our training costs.
As an added bonus, once trained, our volunteers become literacy advocates in their communities, workplaces and public institutions reminding those around them that literacy should not be taken for granted, and that more work must be done!
A Working Gift that Works Wonders –
Literacy Workbooks for a student for a year - $30
Being Canadian-based, our workbooks focus on Canadian-relevant themes encouraging students to learn more about First Nations and multi-cultural issues, as well as our parliamentary system and civic responsibilities in Canada. Many of our students are of colour, new Canadian, from financially disadvantaged families, from single parent homes and many face a number of physical and developmental challenges. We have strived to make our workbooks as inclusive as possible to all of our students. Our workbooks teach our students how to become role models in our diverse society. Sage Youth students receive these materials at no cost.
Building a Case - From your hand to theirs
A full pencil case - $10
“ I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. ”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Remember the joy of opening a freshly-stocked pencil case in your first class at the beginning of a new school year in September? Each sharpened, pointy pencil brought new hopes for achievement and success for the year that lay ahead. We try hard to help our kids succeed at school and sustain that “September” enthusiasm for learning. In doing this, we go through oodles of pencils in our Sage Youth programs because we teach our students how to print, write in cursive writing, capture their thoughts in full sentences, proofread and change and improve upon their own work. And what tool is more effective at helping you hone your thoughts on paper, than a pencil with a small eraser on the end? Since we use, and sharpen, so many pencils, we need lots of pencil cases for our tutors and their students!
To help cover the cost of a full pencil case for one of our Sage Youth programs, please donate $10.00.
How to make a donation for an item from our Gift Catalogue
Once you decide on an item that you would like to donate please follow the following instructions: Please click on the Canada Helps link at the bottom of this page When on the Canada Helps website, please follow these steps: Step 1 – Please enter the donation amount related to your gift(s). Step 2 – Please select the desired frequency of your donation. Step 3 – Under fund/designation you will find a drop down menu. Please select the appropriate gift item. We apologize for the possible inconvenience, but for multiple donations of different gift items, separate donations will have to be submitted. Step 4 – If you wish your gift recipients to receive an e-card, notifying them of your gift, please select that option. If you would prefer that Sage Youth send your gift recipient a card by standard mail, please select that option and enter the details as indicated. Thank you for your generous support!
