Founders

Mary-Anne Frith

Barbara White

Mary-Anne Frith is a recently retired Occupational Health & Safety consultant specializing in WSIB claims management.  Her passion for helping others proves to be an asset to serve her community.

As the Co-Founder of Ripple of Kindness, Mary-Anne’s desire to work with other like-minded women to foster collective impactful giving for local organizations is what gives her great joy.  The impact these gifts have on local charities is filling a great need for programs and services in the region. 

Mary-Anne also serves as the chair of the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre’s Keep LifeWild campaign and sits on the RVH Foundation Board of Directors as Vice-Chair.  

She was honoured to be recognized by Barrie Today’s Community Builder Awards as the “2023 Unsung Hero for her volunteer efforts in the community to improve the lives of others and create a positive impact now and in the future”.

Mary-Anne and her husband Brent are local business owners, have 4 daughters and two amazing grandsons!  She enjoys spending time with her family, travelling, walking the Barrie waterfront and the many Simcoe County trails with her dog.

Barbara White works with her husband as managing partner to Jeff White Group and Jeff’s Junk for the past 32 years in Barrie. They have continued to give back to their community in many ways.

Being community minded with successful fundraising and organizational skills, co-founding Ripple of Kindness and creating a circle of like-minded women who care as much about the community as she does, seemed like the obvious next step in her philanthropic journey. The impact that Ripple has had since 2016 has been life changing for the charities that they have reached.

Barb serves as a director on the Barrie Chamber of Commerce Board as well as the Barrie Community Foundation.

Rotary International has recognized Barb’s dedication to volunteerism by twice awarding her with the “Paul Harris Fellowship Award”. She is very proud to be the recipient of the first “Heart and Soul Women of the Year” award of Barrie in 2018 from the Barrie Chamber of Commerce.

Barb and her husband Jeff have 1 daughter, 2 sons and 3 grandchildren. She enjoys spending time with them and her two dogs; entertaining, crocheting and gardening.