{"id":22774,"date":"2025-05-23T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cufoundation.ca\/pitching-in-fundraising-for-canada-ukraine-foundation\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:26:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:26:19","slug":"pitching-in-fundraising-for-canada-ukraine-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cufoundation.ca\/fr\/pitching-in-fundraising-for-canada-ukraine-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitching in: Fundraising for Canada-Ukraine Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Paul Waldie, The Globe and Mail<\/a><\/p>\n\n

The organizers:<\/strong> Bert Clark, Roman Dubczak and Tim Griffin<\/p>\n\n

The pitch:<\/strong> Raising more than $1-million and climbing<\/p>\n\n

The cause:<\/strong> The Canada-Ukraine Foundation<\/p>\n\n

Roman Dubczak likes to joke that he\u2019s probably the best-known Ukrainian-Canadian on Bay Street.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m the only Roman,\u201d he said with a laugh.<\/p>\n\n

Mr. Dubczak was born and raised in Toronto and has spent more than 30 years with CIBC, where he is deputy chair of capital markets.His parents immigrated to Canada from Ukraine in the 1950s, and he has three cousins who live near Lviv.<\/p>\n\n

Ever since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February, 2022, there has been a flurry of donations to help various causes in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n

Bert Clark, chief executive of Investment Management Corporation of Ontario, wanted Toronto\u2019s financial district to get involved as well. He organized the Bay Street Breakfast for Ukraine in 2023 and invited former Ontario premier and UN ambassador Bob Rae to speak. The event raised around $300,000 for the Canada-Ukraine Foundation to help fund its medical outreach programs in Ukraine. <\/p>\n\n

Mr. Dubczak got involved as well along with Tim Griffin, former chief executive of Connor, Clark & Lunn Private Capital. They followed up with a second breakfast in June, 2024, featuring Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Kyiv-based human-rights lawyer. That event also raised more than $300,000 for the foundation. <\/p>\n\n

The group is planning a third breakfast on June 6, the day before Ukraine\u2019s national soccer team plays Canada in the Canadian Shield Tournament in Toronto. The speaker will be Ukrainian soccer legend Andriy Shevchenko. The organizers are hoping to raise as much as $400,000, putting the total for all three events at more than $1-million. <\/p>\n\n

Mr. Dubczak said he keeps in close contact with his relatives in Ukraine and supports several local initiatives. \u201cIt\u2019s tough to call and say, \u2018How\u2019s it going?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cYou feel you\u2019re not doing enough.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

He has two sons and a daughter in their 20s and knows that if they were in Ukraine, the boys would likely be in the military. \u201cYou feel it. It\u2019s drawn me in a lot more,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n\n

The group plans to hold the breakfast again next year when the emphasis will likely be on raising money to rebuild Ukraine. And while interest in the war has waned, Mr. Dubczak said, the Bay Street crowd is still very much engaged. \u201cThe awareness and the passion is very, very high on this topic.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Waldie, The Globe and Mail The organizers: Bert Clark, Roman Dubczak and Tim Griffin The pitch: Raising more than $1-million and climbing The cause: The Canada-Ukraine Foundation Roman Dubczak likes to joke that he\u2019s probably the best-known Ukrainian-Canadian on Bay Street. \u201cI\u2019m the only Roman,\u201d he said with a laugh. Mr. Dubczak was born […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,186,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuf-in-the-news-fr","category-cuf-in-the-news-show-on-home-section-fr","category-news-fr"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 23:03:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cufoundation.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cufoundation.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cufoundation.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cufoundation.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cufoundation.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cufoundation.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22775,"href":"https:\/\/www.cufoundation.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22774\/revisions\/22775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cufoundation.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cufoundation.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cufoundation.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cufoundation.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}