National Volunteer Week – Day 4
As we continue our journey through National Volunteer Week, today we’d like to highlight our wonderful Saskatchewan Talent participants (Sask. Talent). The quantity and quality of talent in this province is always impressive. They come from all four corners of the province, to perform for our cause and it’s not as easy or glamorous as […]
National Volunteer Week – Day 3
As National Volunteer Week continues, today we’d like to send a mega shout out to the highly skilled Production Volunteers! They are another vital piece of the TeleMiracle “machine” as they are the ones who get the show onto people’s televisions and computers. Our Production Volunteers include roles such as Camera Operators, Lighting, Audio, Directors, […]
National Volunteer Week – Day 2
Today, we’re shining a light on the outstanding volunteers who started it all! 1920 Harold (Hal) Rogers started the first Kinsmen Club in Ontario. Link to Kin Canada History 1928 Kinsmen Club of Saskatoon was formed KCOS History 1929, 24 Kinsmen clubs are formed into five districts under Governors and District officers. Saskatchewan is […]
National Volunteer Week 2022 – Day 1
Since its inception in 1972, the Kinsmen Foundation Inc. has relied on dedicated and hard-working volunteers. To this day, its Board of Directors is made up primarily of volunteers from the Kinsmen and Kinettes clubs in Saskatchewan. It wasn’t long after it was founded that the requests to the Kinsmen Foundation, for assistance, exceeded the […]
Donations, Receipts, and Bears. Oh my!
Every year, once TeleMiracle is over, we get asked the same types of questions, so we thought we’d answer the most common ones here, for people to refer back to. DONATIONS If you phoned in a pledge during TeleMiracle you have a couple options for honouring your pledge. Option 1: You should have received […]
School Fundraisers for TeleMiracle 46
We want to say a big THANK YOU to all the schools across Saskatchewan who raised money for TeleMiracle 46! We appreciate the fact that they fit it into their very busy schedules and maneuvered around the COVID restrictions! We know it wasn’t easy. We thought we’d share what a couple of Saskatchewan schools did […]
TeleMiracle 46 50/50 Winner!
A big thank you to everyone who bought a 50/50 ticket! If you missed the announcement of the winner during our Countdown to TeleMiracle pre-show, here’s the winning information! We sold 79,214 tickets for a total jackpot of $385,730. The winner, Curtis Bender (ticket number 3600611642505779124), received $192,865! We notify the winner via phone and/or […]
TeleMiracle Week Recognized by Provincial Government
Get Ready To Ring Those Phones TeleMiracle Week Runs February 27 to March 5 Leading Up to 46th Annual Telethon Released on February 25, 2022 Today, Minister Responsible for the Provincial Capital Commission Don McMorris and the Kinsmen, Kinettes, and Kin Clubs of Saskatchewan announced TeleMiracle Week begins in the province this Sunday, February […]
TeleMiracle 46 50/50 Raffle is now live
The Kinsmen Foundation announced today that it is bringing back its popular online 50/50 raffle for another year, this time in support of TeleMiracle 46. Saskatchewan residents will have the ability to support “Saskatchewan’s Charity” while also having the chance to take home half of the final jackpot. Last year’s 50/50 sold $726,120 worth of […]
Does the Kinsmen Foundation Fund out of province applicants?
We recently released a 30-second television ad using clips from one of our recipient testimonials, that was filmed in advance for TeleMiracle 46. Unfortunately, this ad seems to have caused some confusion. We have received many concerned calls and messages from people asking – is TeleMiracle funding a family who are not from Saskatchewan? It […]
