Annual Report 2024 to 2025
Building the community pillar
of end-of-life care in Canada
This year, communities across Canada moved closer to a future where no one reaches the end of life without comfort, connection, or care. This report shares what we built together.
Our Theory of Change
The community pillar of end-of-life care in Canada
Communities have Tools, training, shared language, and culturally grounded resources so they can walk beside people with confidence, compassion, and culturally sensitive human connection which leads to a reduction in the eighty four percent access gap and a stronger pillar of care in Canada.
Annual Report at a Glance
In 2024 to 2025, Home Hospice Association strengthened the community pillar of end of life care across Canada.
Communities Supported
Partners across disability support, shelters and outreach, Indigenous communities, cultural groups, long term care, and family service agencies.
Read about One Partnership: Laying the Foundation for an Evolving Partnership
People Prepared to Support
Caregivers, students, doulas, and front-line workers gained skills, language, and confidence.
Request a Speaker for your Next Event, Meeting, Training or Conference
Download our Guide to the Death Doula Movement
Equity Focus
Support for Métis citizens, Two Spirit and LGBTQIA communities, people with diverseabilities, and people living in street involved conditions.
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Shared Tools
Practical resources and learning pathways that help communities care with clarity and compassion.
Learn about our Core Programs and how they will help your communities.
Grow your professional experience and gain community experience with either a Business Management Internship or a Social Justice Internship.
Stories of Impact
Meet George
George was the first person to receive end-of-life support through our partnership with the Nanaimo Association for Community Living. His experience showed how a supported community can walk beside someone at the end of life with compassion, presence, and respect.
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Why These Stories Matters
When caregivers, housemates, families, and community staff receive guidance and tools, they can offer care rooted in comfort, identity, and connection. One life touched helped shape a model that will support many more.
Financial Overview
We invest every contribution in lasting community capacity, shared tools, and the preparation of caregivers and community partners.
Our revenue
Training and education, grants and public funding, fundraising and individual giving, and program partnerships.
Our investments
Community capacity, caregiver supports, training pathways, cultural resources, and research that guides practice.
Our approach
We focus on solutions that last. We reduce duplication. We strengthen partners so people do not fall through gaps.
The People Who Carry This Work
Community Leaders
Community leaders across the country strengthened our impact by opening doors, shaping priorities, and ensuring every HHA initiative reflects the real needs and rhythms of the communities we serve.
Interns
Our interns strengthened HHA’s national capacity by contributing structured, mission-aligned work that enhances advanced research, community engagement, and operational flow across multiple programs.
HHA-Trained Doulas
HHA-trained Doulas advanced our mission nationally by delivering compassionate, culturally sensitive end-of-life support that embodies our Four Domains of Care and sets the gold standard for community-powered hospice.
Task Specialist Volunteers
Our Task Specialist Volunteers powered the backbone of our operations, transforming consistent, behind-the-scenes work into Mobilized Assets that increased our capacity, clarity, and reach across every program.
Organizational Leadership
HHA’s Organizational Leadership provided the strategic focus, compassionate stewardship, and operational clarity that anchor our national work and guide our evolution into Canada’s backbone organization for community-based end-of-life care.
Our Promise to Donors
Your generosity strengthens the places where compassion lives. Every gift helps communities feel ready to care, helps caregivers feel less alone, and helps people at the end of life experience comfort and connection.
How we honour your support
We invest in solutions that last. We listen to communities before we design. We build models that can be used across the country. We report honesty and clarity.
HHA-Trained Doulas
HHA-trained Doulas advanced our mission nationally by delivering compassionate, culturally sensitive end-of-life support that embodies our Four Domains of Care and sets the gold standard for community-powered hospice.
Task Specialist Volunteers
Our Task Specialist Volunteers powered the backbone of our operations, transforming consistent, behind-the-scenes work into Mobilized Assets that increased our capacity, clarity, and reach across every program.
Organizational Leadership
HHA’s Organizational Leadership provided the strategic focus, compassionate stewardship, and operational clarity that anchor our national work and guide our evolution into Canada’s backbone organization for community-based end-of-life care.
How You Can Get Involved
You can help build a Canada where no one reaches the end of life without support.
Give
Support the Equity End-of-Life Care Fund or become a monthly donor.
Partner
Bring HHA into your agency or region to strengthen end of life support.
Learn
Access training that prepares communities to walk beside people at the end of life.
Volunteer
Become a mission-support volunteer and help strengthen the systems, research, and community engagement work that powers compassionate end-of-life care across Canada. Your time and talents directly expand our national capacity.
Intern
Start your learning journey with HHA and gain meaningful, real-world experience in research, community engagement, and nonprofit operations. Our structured Confident Start and Mission Tracker systems ensure your work contributes to national impact while building your professional skills.
TESTIMONIAL
MaryAnne Pomainville
Assisted by the Bello Project
"Hi Pam - thank you so much for this- I cannot tell you how much I miss my girls and to know they are in such good care and excellent hands helps more than you know. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this peace of mind. Counting down the days when I can be with them again. Will stay in touch- in the meantime, please know that what you are doing for all of us is helping tremendously. "
Donations Made in Memory of Maryanne
Pamela Armstrong
Christopher Bunting
Betsy Caiger-Watson
Janet Campbell
Reta Currie
Margaret Haines
Karen Lambert
Madeleibe Lambert
Lisa Nudelman
Andrew MacLeod
Roseann Runte
Rebecca Savoie
Anonymous donors
Special Thank You to All the Volunteers at HHA
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