Family & Community Services


Killarney Food Bank
The food bank building is being renovated and expanded.


$2,500

 

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LITE Winnipeg

LITE, Winnipeg


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Siloam Mission, Winnipeg


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EPIC de St. Malo


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Assiniboine Park Conservancy, Winnipeg


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Prairie Partners, Boissevain


Community Financial Counselling Services, Winnipeg
This agency helps individuals deal with chronic debt. New software will assist in complex file management.


$5,000

 

LITE, Winnipeg
Annually, LITE hosts a Wild Blueberry Pancake Breakfast where its work in helping marginalized people is showcased to the community.


$4,000

 

Salvation Army
Winnipeg Harvest
Union Gospel Mission
Siloam Mission
Christmas Cheer Board of Winnipeg
Christmas Cheer Boards in Rural Manitoba
The Foundation helps with the Christmas relief services of several agencies on an annual basis.


$9,000
$9,000
$2,500
$2,500
$10,000
$6,500

 

EPIC de St. Malo
This agency serves developmentally delayed adults. The grant will help it to mount an annual play, “Works of Beautiful Minds”, starring its clients.


$5,000

 

Assiniboine Park Conservancy, Winnipeg
In recognition of the Foundation’s 25th anniversary this grant will support the redevelopment of Aunt Sally’s Farm. The grant is payable over 5 years.


$250,000

 

SPIKE, Inc., Winnipeg
A new group home for developmentally disabled adults has been acquired.


$15,000

 

The Winnipeg Foundation
“Community Roots” is a magazine focused on community foundations in Manitoba. It is published by The Winnipeg Foundation.


$2,500

 

Prairie Spirit School Division, Glenboro
A public park will serve community-wide needs and will be located on the grounds of Glenboro School.


$5,000

 

Town of Minnedosa
A wellness park will be developed on the banks of the scenic Little Saskatchewan River. Mulitiple features will enhance wellness in Minnedosa.


$2,500

 

Prairie Partners, Boissevain
Adults with intellectual handicaps are proud to work at the Sawmill Tea and Coffee House, an endeavour of Prairie Partners. Renovations have been undertaken.


$7,500

 

Prendergast Association, Winnipeg
Prendergast makes space available for a variety of community agencies in Windsor Park, a suburb of Winnipeg. Those agencies include day cares, senior centres, recreational groups and self-help groups. This grant purchased various capital items.


$10,000

 

ImagineAbility, Winnipeg
This agency’s facility has been improved so that it can better serve adults who are developmentally delayed.


$50,000

 

Manitoba Centre for Families in Transition, Winnipeg
The MCFT has been awarded a start-up grant to help it deliver programs for the benefit of children who have been affected by the acrimonious divorce of their parents.


$12,500

 

Food Matters Manitoba
FMM seeks to enhance nutrition and food security, especially in the North. This grant is for program delivery in two remote communities.


$8,635

 

St. Amant Foundation, Winnipeg
St. Amant helps intellectually disadvantaged adults. Its clients will enjoy a new vacation cottage being built on 18 acres of riverfront land donated by the Grey Nuns.


$10,000

 

King Edward Community School, Winnipeg 
The school’s playground area is being redeveloped to serve both the students and the wider community.


$10,000

 

Pinawa Community Multipurpose Facility
The kitchen in F.W. Gilbert School is being renovated to facilitate programming delivered at the school by several community groups.


$5,000

 

Esther House, Winnipeg
This treatment facility helps women recover from addictions. Programming was funded.


$10,000

 

Knox United Church, Winnipeg
An emergency grant was awarded to help historic Knox United Church repair its roof so that its tenants could continue to serve the Central Park community.


$20,000

 

Today House, Steinbach
Homeless people now have a refuge in Steinbach. A start up grant has been provided.


$10,000

 

North End Community Renewal Corporation
NECRC is the heart beat of Selkirk Avenue. Renovations have improved its head office.


$20,000

 

Habitat for Humanity, Springfield
A deserving family in the Rural Municipality of Springfield will soon move into a new house.


$20,000

 

Initiatives for Just Communities, Winnipeg
A pilot project known as “Stride”, is being offered to women who have been in conflict with the law.


$12,000

 

Community Foundations of Canada
This grant was made in honour of the late Betsy Martin who was a supporter of our rural foundations project.


$2,000

 

Visions of Independence, Portage la Prairie
A new van will help adults in Portage la Prairie who have developmental challenges.


$10,000

 

Juniper Centre, Thompson
Capital repairs to group homes will enhance the quality of life enjoyed by those with developmental handicaps in Thompson.


$15,000

 

Aulneau Renewal Centre, Winnipeg
Aulneau provides counselling and assistance to families under stress. Landscaping will offer a therapeutic outdoor opportunity.


$10,000

 

Western Manitoba Regional Women’s Centre, Brandon
The Centre is expanding its services for women to many rural towns in southwestern Manitoba.


$7,395