Health · Mental Health · 7 hrs ago
Capitalize for Kids conference expected to raise more than $3-million
Jeffrey Gallant and Kyle MacDonald founded Capitalize for Kids, a Toronto charity focused on youth mental health.
They started it after seeing how depression and suicide affected their families and communities.
The charity works with youth mental-health agencies, offering pro bono services and innovative funding.
Its annual investors conference brings together people from pension funds, hedge funds and other investment firms, who pay to attend and discuss investment ideas.
Conference proceeds fund the charity’s work, which aims to help agencies address shared problems and reach more young people.
The charity now works with close to 80 organizations, including community-based mental-health programs.
This year’s conference is expected to raise more than $3-million when it takes place on Nov.
18 and 19.
Capitalize for Kids expects its annual investors conference to raise more than $3-million.
The Toronto-based charity works with youth mental-health agencies, providing pro bono services and innovative funding.
The conference brings together investment-firm representatives to discuss market insights, with proceeds supporting the charity’s work.
Founders Jeffrey Gallant and Kyle MacDonald established the charity after seeing the effects of mental illness on their families and communities.
The charity now works with close to 80 organizations.
- Who
- Capitalize for Kids, founded by Jeffrey Gallant and Kyle MacDonald.
- What
- Its annual investors conference is expected to raise more than $3-million for the charity.
- When
- Nov. 18 and 19, 2026.
- Where
- Toronto. The conference location is not stated.
- Why
- To fund the charity’s work with youth mental-health agencies.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Capitalize for Kids held its first conference, raising $1-million.
The charity is scheduled to hold this year’s investors conference, which is expected to raise more than $3-million.
- Expected fundraising
- More than $3-million
- Conference dates
- Nov. 18 and 19, 2026
- First conference
- 2014; raised $1-million
- Organizations supported
- Close to 80
- Founders
- Jeffrey Gallant and Kyle MacDonald
What people are saying
Growing up, both myself and Kyle saw firsthand just how deeply depression and suicide can affect people’s lives and communities.
We’re trying to drive system-wide change by bringing a series of agencies together to work on a concurrent problem to ensure that we can reach the most amount of kids possible.
It remains a very important passion project for us.