Inspiring and empowering youth through access to sport, education and healthcare.
The Andre De Grasse Family Foundation is a public charitable foundation committed to inspiring and empowering youth through access to sport, education and healthcare including mental health.
Andre’s namesake foundation helps youth reach their own unique potential by providing them with the same kind of opportunities that made Andre a champion in sport and in life.
“The roots of my success are really important to me. I wouldn’t be where I am today if it weren’t for my education, the resources made available to me or the mentorship and support of my first coach, Tony Sharpe, my mom, nor countless others along the way. My foundation and the programs we support provide me with aplatform to pay it forward and give others the same opportunities I had growing up.”
– Andre De Grasse
Andre De Grasse Future Champions Fund
A joint initiative of the Andre De Grasse Family Foundation and the Athletics Canada Foundation, the Andre De Grasse Future Champions Fund empowers youth to use competitive sport as a platform to further their academic potential and become healthy and productive citizens in their community. Using the same blueprint that propelled Andre into a champion on the track and in the classroom, the program provides support and services required for high school athletes to maximize their athletic ability in pursuit of academic success and the opportunity to realize their potential.
Successful participants in the Future Champions program will receive academic counselling to help research and secure scholarships to North American post-secondary institutions.
Canadian high school athletes who are not yet training with a track and field club can apply to become a Fund recipient online each summer. Applicants who are accepted into the program will be notified in September.
Future Champions Fund recipients receive the following support:
Like so many youth during the COVID-19 pandemic, 14-year-old Montrealer, Jesse Briscoe grew frustrated by the cancellation of his sport clubs and activities due to COVID restrictions. Jesse and Andre co-created the challenge to inspire youth across the country to get active with safe outdoor activity. Named after Andre’s #1 selling children’s book, the Race With Me! Virtual Challenge motivated thousands of youth from Halifax to Whitehorse to get back on track racing a 400m distance each week for 8 weeks. Together the challenge raised $25,000 for Kids Help Phone to support youth mental health. The challenge finished with an #OlympicDay celebration webcast on June 23rd viewed by tens of thousands of students.
The Andre De Grasse Family Foundation is a proud supporter of The Hospital for Sick Children(SickKids) Caribbean Initiative; a not-for-profit collaboration between SickKids and seven Caribbean institutions across six countries that strive to improve the outcomes and quality of life for children with cancer and blood disorders. The Initiative establishes partnerships between healthcare specialist at SickKids in Toronto and their counterparts in the Caribbean, through training and education to support the early identification and treatment of children living with cancer and blood disorders in the Caribbean. This is an important project for Andre and his mother Beverley, who grew up in Trinidad & Tobago.
Andre hosts a youth basketball tournament during the last week of December. The annual Andre De Grasse Holiday Classic features more than 500 basketball players from across Southern Ontario. Proceeds from the tournament support the Andre De Grasse Family Foundation.
For inquires re: corporate partnership opportunities, please contact: Brian Levine
The Andre De Grasse Family Foundation Inc.
Charitable Registration # 763766912RR0001
These jerseys represent my Journey; from being discovered by Coach Tony and running for Speed Academy to my years at Junior College in Coffeyville, Kansas, to representing my country on a world stage multiple times from the 2014 CommonWealth games and the 2015 Pan-Am games, to eventually decided to to turn pro and run for my ideal brand in Puma.
These are the custom Puma spikes that I ran in during the 2017 season. This specific model is the 100m model. With my name on the toe! Pretty cool.
This is one of my favourite Albums by one of my favourite artists, J.Cole. This album got me through a lot of training sessions and late nights studying in University.
I won this at the Pan-Am games in Toronto 2015; it was an amazing experience getting to race in front of my family and friends and on top of that winning gold was the icing on the cake. Winning these medals at home also gave me a lot of notoriety in Toronto, had me feeling like a hometown hero haha..
Coming off of my Pan-AM experience in Toronto, I quickly had to shift my focus to Worlds’ in Beijing in a couple weeks. I went in with little to no expectations but came out with these two Bronze medals from the 100m and the 4x100m. It was almost the perfect way to end what was a breakout year, of course winning gold would have made it a completely perfect ending to my season. These medals really put me on the map!!
This experience was entirely on another level; It was my first Olympic games, the whole week was a crazy experience, being in Rio de Janeiro was an experience, putting on that Team Canada uniform and running on the biggest stage possible.. theres nothing like it! Then to medal three times in my first Olympics!? Unforgettable experience right there.. I’ll cherish these medals forever.
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