Every young person deserves a place where they belong.
We help build the long-term financial foundation for Rainbow Camp®, affirming community programs, and a permanent home for 2SLGBTQ+ youth and allied youth.
Build a future for Rainbow Camp® that lasts.
Rainbow Camp® has created a place where 2SLGBTQ+ and allied youth can experience friendship, leadership, joy, and belonging. Welcome Friend Foundation helps secure the support needed to protect that experience and build what comes next.
Belonging is more than a feeling. It can change a life.
Through Rainbow Camp® and related programming, more than 1,000 young people have experienced affirming community, connection, and support.
A permanent home for belonging.
Rainbow Camp® needs a safe, stable, long-term home where 2SLGBTQ+ and allied youth can gather, build friendships, develop leadership, and experience belonging year after year. Our longer-term vision is a welcoming place that can also support connection, learning, and community across generations.
The Foundation is helping connect donors, foundations, businesses, and community partners with the opportunity to make that future possible.
Help build what comes next.
Support Rainbow Camp®
Help young people experience an affirming camp community built around belonging, friendship, confidence, leadership, and joy.
Build a Permanent Home
Help create the stable, long-term physical home Rainbow Camp® needs to grow and serve generations of young people.
Invest in Belonging
Major gifts, foundation support, corporate partnerships, community fundraising, and legacy giving can create impact that lasts.
Rainbow Camp is what people know. The Foundation helps secure its future.
Welcome Friend Foundation helps turn generosity into long-term charitable capacity — supporting programs today while building the relationships, resources, and infrastructure needed for tomorrow.
A permanent home can create stability for camp, expand future opportunities, strengthen partnerships, and create a lasting place of belonging in Northern Ontario.
Belonging across generations.
Rainbow Camp® is at the heart of our work, but our vision reaches beyond summer camp. We are working toward a permanent, year-round home where 2SLGBTQ+ youth, adults, older adults, allies, and community partners can gather, connect, learn from one another, and build community across generations.
A place shaped by the energy of young people, the experience of older generations, and a shared commitment to creating communities where everyone can belong.
There is more than one way to build the future.
Win while helping support Rainbow Camp®.
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Your support is entrusted to a registered Canadian charity.
Welcome Friend Foundation is committed to responsible stewardship, clear reporting, and using charitable resources to strengthen Rainbow Camp®, 2SLGBTQ+ youth initiatives, allied youth programming, and affirming community work.
Our partnership with Welcome Friend Association helps translate charitable support into real-world impact through Rainbow Camp®, outreach, community education, and the work toward permanent, affirming spaces.
Registered Canadian Charity
797410362RR0001
Corporation Number
1649095-6
Receipting
Issued in accordance with CRA guidance
Financial Reporting
2025 year-end reporting in progress; summary available on request