Shinerama is Canada’s largest post-secondary fundraiser involving students at almost 60 university and college campuses across Canada, raising money for cystic fibrosis research. Shinerama was developed in 1961 at Waterloo Lutheran University now Wilfrid Laurier University by Paul Enns as a means of its school's first year students to get involved and give back to their community. In 1964, when the national Shinerama campaign for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation was launched, that funds were directed to support Cystic Fibrosis research. The success of Shinerama allowed this charitable event to grow from a small municipal shoe-shining event to becoming one of Canada's largest fundraising efforts. Shinerama currently boasts 55 universities participating in the event countrywide in this annual affair and continues to work with the CCFF. In 2006, Shinerama attracted more than 35,000 student volunteers in more than 56 Canadian cities, towns, and communities. Together, students from coast to coast shine shoes, wash cars, co-ordinate raffles and barbecues, as well as numerous other events, in support of cystic fibrosis research and care. Shinerama has raised more than $17.5 million to support the fight against cystic fibrosis since the campaign began. In 2007, Shinerama student volunteers raised more than $985,638, a record breaking year, to help fund CCFF research and treatment programs[3]. In 2010, Shinerama student volunteers raised $1,000,000 during their campaigns.
