The Graff Group has supported their community and local charities for over 40 years and will continue to do so. Cheryl Graff and Samantha Graff Benmor have made significant contributions to The Princess Margaret Cancer Research, Mount Sinai, Sick Kids, Baycrest, North York General Hospital, Toronto General Hospital, Sunnybrook Hospital, IDF Soldiers, Beit Halochem, and Humewood House.
The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
The Princess Margaret (PM) Cancer Centre is the largest integrated cancer research, teaching and treatment centre in Canada. Its research institute, formerly known as the Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI), includes internationally recognized researchers and cutting-edge research infrastructure. The Centre focuses on cancer research across various fields including genomics, informatics, molecular biology, signalling, structural biology, health services and biophysics. PM’s laboratories and facilities are primarily located at the Centre itself (610 University Avenue) and at the Princess Margaret Cancer Research Tower (in the MaRS Centre).
Mount Sinai Hospital
Sinai Health delivers excellent and compassionate care in hospital, community and home. Focusing on the comprehensive needs of people, they push boundaries for health solutions and innovative models that connect care across the continuum and the lifespan. They discover and translate scientific breakthroughs, and educate future clinical and scientific leaders.
Sinai Health is a leading academic health science centre and a trailblazer for integrated care across the health continuum. Their fusion of science, innovation, care and learning has earned them international, national and provincial leadership for unique programs and compassionate care.
Sick Kids
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), affiliated with the University of Toronto, is Canada’s most research-intensive hospital and the largest centre dedicated to improving children’s health in the country.
SickKids’ approach for delivering health care is centred on the needs of patients and their families, covering a wide range of clinical departments. To support the patient and family experience, their Family Spaces offer opportunities for family recreation and programming, while Interpreter and Spiritual & Religious Care services make their environment accessible to the unique needs of your family.
With passionate and dedicated staff, SickKids is much more than a hospital. They work each day to provide the best in child and family-centred care, pioneer ground-breaking clinical and scientific advancements, and train the next generation of experts in child health.
Together, they are advancing Precision Child Health, a movement to individualize care for every child based on what makes them unique – from their genetic code to their postal code.
Baycrest
Baycrest is an academic health sciences centre providing a continuum of care for older adults, including independent living, assisted living, long-term care and a post-acute hospital specializing in the care of older adults all within one campus.
We are a global leader in geriatric residential living, healthcare, research, innovation and education, with a special focus on brain health and aging.
Clinical services at the Baycrest Hospital, Ben and Hilda Katz Building, offer a full spectrum of specialized inpatient care services for the older adult population, from inpatient to ambulatory rehabilitation patient needs.
North York General Hospital (NYGH)
North York General Hospital (NYGH), affiliated with the University of Toronto, is one of Canada’s leading community academic hospitals. They offer our diverse community a wide range of acute care, ambulatory and long-term care services across multiple sites. Through partnerships, collaboration and academic endeavours, they seek to set new standards for people-centred care. Working together with patients and their families, they are making a world of difference.
They provide an exceptional care experience for our patients and their families, and have proudly served diverse communities in North Toronto, and beyond, since 1968.
Their staff, physicians and volunteers have a history of transforming health care to better serve their patients. NYGH are leaders who adopt the most innovative health information technology, strategists who carefully chart patient flow and find ways to reduce wait times, and visionaries who dream of, and work towards, the ideal patient experience. From boardroom to bedside, they go above and beyond to offer the best and safest care. They put their patients first in everything they do.
Toronto General Hospital
Toronto General Hospital (TGH) is one of Toronto’s oldest hospitals, dating back to 1819 when the Loyal and Patriotic Society of Upper Canada organized a trust fund to support the construction and maintenance of a hospital in the provincial capital, the Town of York. Construction began in 1820 and the General Hospital of the Town of York was opened for patients in June 1829 at Simcoe and King Streets. As Toronto General, it expanded to Gerrard and Sumach in 1856 and then to College Street in 1913. The College Street location has since become the MaRS building, while Toronto General has spread out south along University Avenue.
Among its world firsts, TGH performed the world’s first successful single lung transplant in 1983, followed by the first double-lung transplant in 1986. In 1950, the first external heart pacemaker was used in an open-heart resuscitation. And in 1922, insulin was developed and saw its first clinical use in the treatment of diabetes on a young patient at TGH.
Sunnybrook Hospital
From our beginnings as a hospital for Canadian veterans, Sunnybrook has flourished into a fully affiliated teaching hospital of the University of Toronto, evolving to meet the needs of our growing community.
Today, with 1.1 million patient visits each year, Sunnybrook has established itself across three campuses and is home to Canada’s largest trauma centre.
Sunnybrook’s groundbreaking research changes the way patients are treated around the world. They have a team of over 200 scientists and clinician-scientists that conduct more than $100 million of breakthrough research each year. They continue to work to discover ways to treat the untreatable.
Israel Defense Force
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) believes that courage, loyalty and diversity, unified by the common goal of defense are essential. When combined, they create the unique strength that enables the IDF to thrive. People from every corner of Israel, every religion and every walk of life come together in order to serve in the IDF. Their soldiers invest their time, withstand challenges, and often risk their lives to protect the State of Israel from its enemies and ensure the safety of the people they love.
Beit Halochem Canada
Since 1978, Beit Halochem Canada, Aid to Disabled Veterans of Israel has raised funds for the rehabilitation of the courageous men and women injured while safeguarding the State of Israel.
Beit Halochem Canada, Aid to Disabled Veterans of Israel, raises funds to support rehabilitating, rebuilding, and enhancing the lives of thousands of Israelis disabled in the line of duty or through acts of terror. At Beit Halochem Centres across Israel, injured veterans, and their families, are provided with personalized rehabilitative services, specialized sports, and cultural and recreational programming from the time of injury and for the rest of their lives.
With the unwavering commitment of their dedicated volunteers, generous donors, and supportive community, BHC is proud to be making a difference today for our Heroes’ tomorrow!
Humewood House
Very few Torontonians know about Humewood House. It’s located at St. Clair & Oakwood. It was established by nuns in 1912 to provide housing, food, support and high school education to pregnant teen mothers. The values at Humewood House are about mothers, children and family.
One of the goals at Humewood House is “to empower young pregnant women to make positive life choices for themselves and their children.” The Graff Group is honoured to help these young women at Humewood House, by giving them the support and encouragement to do so.
We hope that you can help us support these young women too! Please check out their page to learn more and connect with the amazing team.