In recognition of the exceptional pressures facing health care today, the CMA Foundation (CMAF) is pleased to announce a commitment of $20 million, one of the largest COVID-19 donations to date. This funding will be allocated through targeted grants to support urgent needs within the healthcare system, including:

• Innovation in family medicine: $5 million will be granted to the Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine (FAFM)’s COVID-19 pandemic response and impact grant program (Co-RIG).
• Frontline hospitals and COVID-19 crisis response efforts by physicians and health care workers:
  • $5 million will be allocated to the Frontline Fund for Healthcare Workers which will benefit hospitals and health care workers across Canada with 100+ bed count and Intensive Care Units (ICU);
  • $5 million will be set up as a fund by the CMA Foundation to benefit community hospitals;
  • $250,000 will be granted to Doctors without Borders / Médecins sans frontières’ COVID-19 Crisis Fund.

• Medical learners: More than $5 million will be granted to 17 medical schools to address financial hardships experienced by medical students and residents in the context of COVID-19.