The Foundation draws its revenues from several sources presently including four benefit activities:

- « Sugar Shack Meal at the Zoo » (March)

- St-Hub ZOODAY at the Granby restaurant (May)

- Golf tournament (August)

- Great wines tasting (October).

Some companies have made the commitment to help the Foundation with annual contributions. Other donations are received from other foundations, members of the community and visitors who also support our Foundation with their donations dropped off at designated locations around Granby Zoo.

Do you care about the plight of threatened species?

You can get in touch with the Fondation at 450-372-9113, ext. 2102

Take Part in the Fundraising Activities

3rd SUGAR SHACK MEAL AT GRANBY ZOO

Date: Sunday, March 30, 2008

Location: Granby Zoo’s Le Marché Restaurant

Time: Starting at 11 am

Tickets :

- 13 years old and over: $50 ($30 income tax receipt)

- 6 to 12 years old: $10

Reservations are a must.

As dictated by tradition, the meal is followed by a taffee on snow tasting, near the Hippos River.

Your Zooweet tooth will love the menu which has nothing to envy from even the best sugar shacks!

- Pea soup

- Buns

- Cretons (traditional meat spread)

- Pickles

- Ham

- Crispy pork rinds

- Sausages

- Maple syrup

- Coleslaw

- Omelette

- Potatoes

- Beans

- Sugar pie

- Pancake

- Beverage

- Taffee on snow

The 2007 sugar shack meal brought in $10,000 for the Foundation.

The ST-HUB ZOODAY

The St-Hub ZOODAY gives the population an opportunity to take part in a unique event:  supporting the Foundation’s projects while enjoying a delicious meal.

This event’s main partners are Granby’s St-Hubert Restaurant, Desjardins and Bell

Date: Friday, May 2, 2008

Location: St-Hubert Restaurant, Granby

Tickets: $20

The meal service schedule is as follows: 11 am, 1 pm, 5 pm, 7 pm.

The number of tickets is limited.

Reservations need to be made at Granby’s St-Hubert Restaurant, or contact the Foundation at 450-372-9113, ext 2102.

Included: Zoo educators on site with animals, mascots, drawings and attendance prizes, etc.

Get a group together and come support the Granby Zoological Garden Fondation.

The organising committee 2008

Paul Labrecque, director of the Foundation, Danielle Picard, Director of communications for Desjardins – main sponsor, Serge Audet, Bell Regional director - co-sponsor, Donald Trudeau, owner of the St-Hubert restaurant, Catherine Marquis and Nancy Poulin, both of Desjardins, Joannie Haché, Manager of the St-Hubert restaurant, Luc Normandin of radio M-105, Réjean Boulet, Alain Faucher, Chairman of the Foundation, Dave Whittom, Coca-Cola’s District Manager, Philippe Gosselin of Artopex and Foundation member, Granby Zoo’s Julie Picotte, Daniel Touchette, Director of Sales at La Voix de l’Est, André Dupont.

12th Annual golf tournament

The Foundation urges you to set aside Wednesday August 13, 2008 to participate in the next edition of its golf tournament when 144 golfers meet each year.

Date: Wednesday August 13, 2008 

Location: Club de Golf Le Rocher

Welcome & Breakfast: 9:00 am

Shotgun start: 11:00 am

Supper: 6:30 pm

Reservation : 450-372-9113, ext. 2102

5th Great wines tasting

Get ready for a trip around the world!

The 5th Great Wines Tasting organised by the Granby Zoological Garden Foundation will be presented on Tuesday October 21, 2008 at Granby Zoo’s Le Marché restaurant.

To mark this 5th tasting, Mr. Alain Bélanger, renowned sommelier and proud emcee of this event since its creation, will have surprises in store for us during this journey of discovery around the world.  

The legal office of Grégoire Poitras Payette Rhéaume Messier, major partners of this benefit event, will have the added support of Les Galeries de Granby, La Voix de l’Est and RBC Dominion Securities. 

This activity draws the attention of guests who, other than the sensual pleasures provided by the wine tasting, enjoy being around a table where a convivial atmosphere reigns. The most fitting words to define this evening are the satisfaction and enthusiasm of the people who collaborate at the assorted Foundation projects. 

Date: Tuesday October 21st, 2008

Location: Granby Zoo’s Le Marché Restaurant

Time: 6:00 pm

The number of tickets is limited to 132.

The 4th Great California Wines Tasting organised by the Foundation in October 2007 collected over $19,000. The architectural firm of Favreau Blais was the main partner for this benefit event.

Fundraising Activities

Mission

To the Snow Leopard's Rescue

Accomplishments

Support the Foundation

Donors

Mission

The Granby Zoological Garden Foundation is a non-profit organisation that has committed to the following mission:

- promote, support and financially assist the Granby Zoological Society in order to allow it to pursue, at a level of excellence, its activities at the Granby Zoological Garden.

- support, consolidate the financing of construction, renovations, expansions, development of buildings or spaces and the purchase of various equipments at the Granby Zoological Garden.

- promote, encourage and support popular education, research, as well as the training of Granby Zoological Society personnel at its Zoological Garden.

The Foundation also supports the Granby Zoological Society in its conservation of species of threatened or precarious status, thus contributing, along with many other zoos worldwide, to the preservation of balance between Man, fauna and the environment so that tomorrows children will inherit a healthy planet!

To the Snow Leopard's Rescue

The Foundation now wishes to concentrate its next fundraising campaign on building a habitat for its snow leopards, a threatened species that has been residing at our Zoo since 1988.

In fact, Granby Zoo plays an important role in the preservation of this species, whether in captivity (ex situ) or in the wild (in situ). Further to recommendations by the Species Survival Plans (SSP), two young snow leopards from two institutions will be reunited in Granby for reproductive purposes. Of the 365 specimens kept in captivity inside 153 zoological institutions, 23 cubs were born in the last 12 months, of which only six in North America.

It is also thanks to the financial support of the Granby Zoological Society, among orthers, that the International Snow Leopard Trust was able to carry out research, conservation and education programs in China, India, Pakistan and the Kyrgyz Republic where almost half of the snow leopard population has been lost to poaching.

The Foundation welcomes the help of everyone in the support of this cause, the perservation of the magnificent charismatic species that is the Snow Leopard.

The Foundation is proud of its Accomplishments

Generous donors have played an important role in the building of the new veterinary hospital, as well as the purchase of equipement and instruments destined for the hospital. Thanks to the contribution of assorted government levels, the Zoological Society Foundation, it can be said: Mission Accomplished.

Moreover, the Foundation insists on supporting the Zoo's assorted services and educational programs essential to making every age group aware of the stakes in the consevation of animal species and the preservation of our planet's biodiversity.

The Foundation's Board of Directors

Alain Faucher, Chairman

Catherine Marquis, Vice Chairman

Guy Vincent, Treasurer

Joanne Lalumière, Secretary

Robert Beaudoin, Administrator

Marie Benoit, Administrator

Louis Cabana, Administrator

Guy D. Champagne, Administrator

Serge Durocher, Administrator

Philippe Gosselin, Administrator

Eugène Lapierre, Administrator

André Moïse, Administrator

Claire Paradis, Administrator

Paul Labrecque, Director of the Foundation

450.372.9113 extension 2102

fondation@zoodegranby.com

Support the Foundation

If you would to make a donation, download the PDF donation form or get in touch with the Granby Zoological Garden Foundation directly. Donations to the Foundation are tax deductible.

Do not hesitate to get a touch with the Foundation should you require additional information at 450.372.9113, extension 2102 or by email: fondation@zoodegranby.com