After three decades of transformative leadership, heartfelt compassion, and unwavering dedication to empowering women, girls, and gender diverse communities, YWCA Toronto’s CEO, Heather M. McGregor is retiring.

To honour this legacy, YWCA Toronto has created the Heather M. McGregor Fund, an initiative that will help sustain what Heather has built - a continuum of care. The Fund will embolden our future by allowing YWCA Toronto to strengthen affordable housing, respond to gender-based violence, expand mental health services, and ignite new advocacy and programming.

Women, girls and gender diverse people are counting on your support.

Your donation to the Heather M. McGregor Fund allows us to provide a powerful array of interconnected services for thousands of women, girls and gender diverse people now and long into the future.

Here is How Your Donation Makes an Impact

  • Dedicated Emergency Shelters: Your support helps us provide secure spaces for women, gender diverse people and their children after they leave a violent situation.
  • Employment Programs: Gifts to this Fund help people to improve their marketable skills or learn new ones, build confidence and gain meaningful employment.
  • Affordable Housing: Your gift helps reduce the number of women, gender diverse people and their families experiencing homelessness by funding safe, affordable housing.
  • Mental Health Support: Your gift today helps fund critical mental health services that help survivors recover from the trauma of violence and homelessness.
  • Advocacy: Informed by the communities we serve and the structural barriers that keep them from achieving equity and justice.

When you donate to the Heather M. McGregor Fund, you are making a powerful difference in the lives of women, gender diverse people and their families as they find refuge and begin to rebuild their lives.

Read full case for support here.

In honour of Heather’s legacy, join us in continuing to champion a vision of Toronto where everyone has the chance to thrive.

Contact Us


For more information about the Heather M. McGregor Fund, please email HMMFund@ywcatoronto.org or call 416-961-8101 x335