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Please click on the link above or scan the QR code with the camera on your phone to be directed to our Zeffy donations page. 

Suggested donation levels are listed below. 

Every donation is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

It only takes one spark.
Your gift helps ignite important conversations in rural communities where silence often surrounds mental health.
Your Impact: Supports awareness materials and outreach that reflect real agricultural life.
Your Role: You’re helping someone take that first step toward support.

Porch Light Mental Wellness Society is a grassroots initiative created by friends and neighbours. We are not mental health providers. Instead, we are community members working to ensure that rural Canadians never face mental health challenges alone.

Spark important conversations by funding mental health awareness materials in rural communities. Your donation will help keep our porch light on, funding social media campaigns and important updates to our website, which functions as a Directory of Resources that guides people toward practical mental health resources and crisis support pathways.

Farmers are the backbone of every society. They provide essential food and raw materials that directly ensure our continued survival. Help us help them. Join us. We’ll keep the light on.

Lighting the path through tough seasons.
Like a lantern carried through the dark, your donation helps guide individuals and families toward trusted, practical resources.
Your Impact: Expands access to community-based supports tailored to farmers, ranchers, and rural youth.
Your Role: You help make support visible, approachable, and relevant.

Loneliness will affect your physical health. Rural isolation exacerbates feelings of loneliness and can be compounded by stress, making you feel like no one else will understand.

Porch Light Society is represented by Ambassador Athletes and Community Ambassadors. These individuals light a path through tough seasons and serve as trusted voices within their communities. These individuals keep important conversations about mental health open, honest, and ongoing. 

Make a lasting impact by supporting program growth, partnerships, and expanded outreach of Ambassadors to ensure no one faces mental health challenges alone.

Keeping the light on close to home.
A steady presence in the yard means no one has to feel alone. Your contribution strengthens local connections and peer support.
Your Impact: Helps individuals access counselling programs that reduce isolation and normalize asking for help.
Your Role: You’re creating a sense of safety and belonging where it matters most—at home.

Across Canada, approximately nine family farms are lost every week. Even more concerning, the suicide rate among farmers is estimated to be twice as high as the national average across industries. These statistics highlight the urgent need for stronger mental health awareness, support, and connection within rural communities.

Donate the cost of a counselling session for farmers, ranchers, and their families. Help reduce barriers to services and act as a guiding light for those searching for assistance. These sessions include assistance with financial and succession planning, which are major contributors to mental health. 

A strong light through long nights.
In agriculture, the work doesn’t stop—and neither should support. Your gift helps address ongoing stress, burnout, and emotional strain with practical, real-world solutions.
Your Impact: Funds initiatives that meet people where they are, with tools that fit the realities of farming and ranching life.
Your Role: You stand beside those carrying heavy loads, helping lighten them.

Despite national and provincial initiatives, a recent survey revealed most farmers do not know how to access agricultural-specific resources. Extending Porch Light’s reach by funding youth outreach, workshops, and community presentations tailored to agricultural communities, ensures youth and families know where to turn for support. Advertisement campaigns in local farmer newspapers and print are costly. This donation will ensure timely and appropriate assistance will be distributed to larger audiences in a more effective manner. And, as a bonus, this donation will also support another community business. 

Guiding the way for an entire community.
A beacon shines far beyond a single porch. Your leadership-level gift drives lasting change in how mental wellness is understood and supported in agriculture.
Your Impact: Enables larger-scale programs, partnerships, and stigma-reduction efforts across rural communities.
Your Role: You help lead a movement—building resilience, strengthening communities, and ensuring no one has to navigate hard times alone.

Farming and ranching are among the most demanding occupations—physically, mentally, and financially. The pressures of rising costs, unpredictable markets, extreme weather, and the loss of family farms continue to weigh heavily on rural families.

Funding donated to farm-informed therapy programs act as a beacon of hope for an entire community. This initiative ensures mental health professionals understand agricultural life, focusing on resilience and practical solutions to address high rates of distress, burnout, and suicide in the sector. We know that as a farmer, time is tight, and the work never really stops. This donation will ensure mental health professionals are advising and assisting farmers and their families with counselling built to fit the full context of their lives. 

No Farmers. No Food. No Future.