Invest in Research Today to Create Tools for Tomorrow

Your gift fuels the research that leads to real–world solutions

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder affects 1.5 million Canadians. Your support helps individuals, families, and caregivers access the resources, research, and hope they need.

CanFASD is Canada’s only national research network dedicated to FASD. Your donation fuels the research that drives real‑world solutions and ensures no one falls through the gaps. With your help, we can expand support for families, reduce stigma, and improve outcomes for people with FASD. Together, we can create a future where every person is given the opportunity to thrive.

Please consider giving a gift today to support life‑changing research and resources across Canada. Every penny counts! A commitment of just $5 a month can make all the difference in getting the word out.

For questions related to donating, including alternative donation options, please contact info@canfasd.ca.

Impact Areas

Open Access Research

Your generosity ensures that vital FASD research reaches those who need it most, paving the way for a brighter future for individuals with FASD and their families.

Open-access research is scholarly work that is freely available online to anyone, without subscription or cost barriers. Researchers pay a hefty fee to publish their research open access. At CanFASD, we try to cover the cost of open-access publications through grants or our own operations funds. But with the number of articles we publish each year, we don’t always have the money for open-access publications.

By contributing, you can help us cover the publishing fees for scholarly journals so that our research doesn’t end up behind a paywall.

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Where It’s Needed Most

Your donation helps us to continue to create world class research and resources that improve the lives of people with FASD and their communities.

At CanFASD, our mission of creating and sharing collaborative research that solves real-world problems is a 24/7 undertaking. Research projects are often funded by grants, but this funding model often leaves out the most important part: sharing the research with those who need it most.  As a not-for-profit organization, we rely on community support. The webinars we run, awareness campaign we organize, issue papers we write, resources we create, and advocacy work we do are funded in part by donors. Our efforts would not be possible without the help of supportive community members like you!

By contributing, you can help us continue to share resources and tools to help people with FASD live their best lives and help communities find solutions for tomorrow.

Lived Experience Leadership Fund

Your gift supports those with living experience to be part of the research

We need the voices of those with lived experience in discussions about research, policy, and practice. However, lack of financial support is a big barrier to participating. The costs of flights, hotels, transportation and extra support for individuals to attend meetings, conferences, and events shouldn’t be a barrier to having your voice heard. The Lived Experience Leadership Fund is a donation-based fund that covers the cost for people with lived and living experience to participate in research activities.

By contributing today, you are investing in research that shapes – and is shaped by – the FASD community.

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For questions related to donating, please contact info@canfasd.ca.