Help Frontline Healthcare Workers & Local Businesses When You Purchase Downtown Gift Cards

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The Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBIA) has launched a great new initiative to support both downtown businesses and frontline workers during this crisis.

The DBIA is donating $25 to the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) Foundation in support of the hospital’s COVID-19 response effort for every $50 in gift cards purchased at supportdowntownptbo.ca. 

Photo courtesy DBIA

Thanks to a generous community donation of up to $50,000, the PRHC Foundation is able to match community donations for a limited time, meaning your purchase of $50 in gift cards for your local downtown businesses can leverage $50 in support of the PRHC Foundation. 

Donations to the PRHC Foundation’s COVID-19 response fund will help fund vital investments such as additional ventilators, laryngoscopes for emergency intubation, additional ICU beds, wellness supports for staff who must stay at the hospital while treating patients, and more protective equipment and scrubs to help keep them safe.

Photo by Mary Zita Payne

Local businesses continue to face many challenges and your support with the purchase of gift cards is helping them through a very difficult time. 

 “The support of our community has been phenomenal,” says Terry Guiel, Executive Director of the DBIA. “Your support with these gift cards has absolutely helped to save some of our local businesses. Let’s keep this up and support our hospital and the amazing work they’re doing to keep us safe.”

 HOW IT WORKS

• Go to supportdowntownptbo.ca

• Find your favourite shops, restaurants, pubs, and services

• Select the gift cards you would like to purchase and add them to your cart

• Select the $25 PRHC Foundation Special Promotion and add one for every $50 in gift cards you purchase 

• Check out

• Receive your gift cards (or instructions from the business via email on next steps to activate it) in the mail to use at a later date

The DBIA will continue to donate $25 to the PRHC Foundation for every $50 in gift cards purchased until $5,000 in gift cards have been purchased.

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