The AEBC conducts limited door-to-door fundraising initiatives in the following areas of the country:

• On Vancouver Island (outside of Victoria)
• In the Okanogan Valley
• In Southwestern Ontario

If you are approached by one of our canvassers and make a donation, you will be issued a temporary donation receipt, which you can submit to our national office to receive a tax-deductible charitable receipt.  Each temporary receipt will be numbered, and will be a two-part form (with one part of the receipt remaining in the receipt book).

Temporary receipts must be issued for all donations, regardless of amount.

To protect your personal information, we do not generally take credit card donations at the door.  If you are approached by a canvasser and wish to donate by credit card, please ask for their name, the name of their supervisor, and contact the national office directly at 1-800-561-4774.  We will make those arrangements with you directly.

Check our page on Temporary Receipting for more information on how to obtain your official, tax-deductible donation receipt.

Donation Fraud

If you are approached by someone with photocopied temporary receipts, or temporary receipts which are not in a bound receipt book, please contact us immediately at 1-800-561-4774.

Unfortunately, charities are often subjected to "donation fraud," whereby a person goes door-to-door, purporting to be collecting money on behalf of the charity, when they are, in fact, merely pocketing that money for their own use.  You can protect yourself from this type of fraud by asking for identification, and ensuring that the temporary donation receipt you receive is not an illegitimate photocopy. 

If you have any reason to doubt the authenticity of a solicitation, simply do not donate at the door.  Ask them for their name, and the name of their supervisor, and contact the national office directly.  You always have the option of sending a donation directly to AEBC.