The Heart and Stroke Foundation

Run for Heart & Stroke

When you run with Heart & Stroke, every step helps save lives.

Heart disease and stroke touch nearly every family in Canada — often without warning. A heart attack. A stroke. A life forever changed in an instant. But because of supporters like you, what was once impossible is becoming possible.

By choosing to fundraise for Heart & Stroke at the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon, you’re helping to power lifesaving research, advance prevention, and ensure more people survive — and recover — from heart disease and stroke.

Your fundraising supports:

• Groundbreaking research that improves prevention, treatment, and recovery for heart disease and stroke
• Stroke Best Practices and FAST awareness, helping Canadians recognize stroke sooner and get life‑saving care faster
• CPR and AED training, giving more people the skills to act in a cardiac emergency
• Cardiac Crash™ program, which helps communities prepare for cardiac emergencies by improving emergency response, access to AEDs, and bystander CPR — because minutes matter when a heart stops
• Risk Screen Tool, a free, online tool that helps people understand their risk of heart disease and stroke — and what they can do to lower it
• Health equity initiatives, including research focused on women who continue to be under‑researched, under‑diagnosed, and under‑treated for heart disease and stroke

Every kilometre you run helps turn hope into action. You’re not just crossing a finish line, you’re helping more families stay together, more survivors return home, and more lives get a second chance.

Run for breakthroughs.
Run for recovery.
Run for lives saved.
Run for Heart & Stroke.