Family & Community Services

Steinbach Family Resource Centre
The Centre has moved to a new facility and invested in leasehold improvements.

$15,000

Habitat for Humanity, Flin Flon
Habitat for Humanity, Killarney
Habitat for Humanity, Virden
These communities are building houses for a deserving family.

$15,000
10,000
10,000

The Jubilee Fund, Winnipeg
Jubilee is a lender of last resort focused on social enterprises. This grant helped with its administrative expenses.

$20,000

enVision Community Living, Steinbach
Equal Opportunities West, Winnipeg
 Community Living, Selkirk
 SPIKE, Winnipeg
 Community Living, Stonewall
 Gateway Resources, Winkler

Developmentally disabled adults in Steinbach and Selkirk have a new group home.  EOW has leased a new service truck for its employment programs.  Community Living, Selkirk is renovating its Riverside Grill, a social enterprise.  Community Living, Stonewall has acquired a multi-purpose building.  Gateway is rebuilding after a catastrophic fire.

$15,000

5,000

10,000
7,500
30,000
60,000

Union Gospel Mission, Winnipeg
Improvements to the Charis Centre, a facility for addicted women, have been partly funded with this award.

$15,000

Winkler Family Resource Centre
An “imagination library” is being established under the auspices of the Dolly Parton Foundation.

$15,000

LITE, Winnipeg
This agency promotes the employment of marginalized people from Winnipeg’s poorest communities. Its annual fundraiser, the Wild Blueberry Breakfast, was assisted.

$4,000

Agape Table, Winnipeg
This refuge for hungry people relies mostly on private donations. It has acquired fundraising software.

$3,000

Survivor’s Hope Crisis Centre, Pinawa
A regrettable increase in the need to assist abused women has led to an expansion of the Centre’s facilities in Pinawa and Powerview-Pine Falls.

$10,000

 Christmas Cheer Board of Winnipeg
 Salvation Army
 Winnipeg Harvest  
 Union Gospel Mission, Winnipeg
 Siloam Mission, Winnipeg
 Christmas Cheer Funds in rural Manitoba
  The Foundation provides grants at Christmas time to support agencies that are helping the needy.

$11,000
10,000
10,000
3,000
3,000
8,500

 Pluri-elles (Manitoba)
 A wide variety of social services are provided to francophone communities in the province.  Leasehold improvements were funded at its Winnipeg head office.

$15,000

 SPLASH Child Care, Winnipeg
 New flooring will improve this daycare which serves the public from the North End Wellness Centre.

$8,046

 Mosaic – Newcomer Family Resource Network,Winnipeg
 A newcomer parenting support program has been assisted.

$24,575

 TIDES, Canada
As part of a collaboration of funders the Foundation is supporting food security and healthy families in remote locations in Manitoba’s North.  This grant is payable over 2 years.

$100,000

 Swan Valley Crisis Centre, Swan River
 A new fence and gates will enhance the appearance and security at this emergency shelter for abused women and their children.

$7,500

 Literary Review of Canada, Winnipeg
 The SPUR Festival, produced by the LRC, stimulates public discourse on a wide variety of issues of importance to society.  It is an annual, national event.  This grant helped fund the Winnipeg festival.

$7,500

 Community Foundations of Canada
 Foundations from rural and northern Manitoba have been assisted to attend CFC’s bi-annual, national conference.

$10,000

 Westminister United Church, Winnipeg
A new community kitchen will help Westminster advance its charitable service to its neighbourhood. 

 North Point Douglas Women’s Centre, Winnipeg
This refuge for women has acquired new computers for use by its patrons. 

$7,500 

 Villa Rosa, Winnipeg
Emergency plumbing and heating repairs were undertaken at this shelter for single expectant and post-natal mothers.

  Thompson Humane Society
Capital assets which will help the Society enhance its fundraising results have been acquired.

$7,827 

 Lakeshore School Division, Ashern
The schools in Ashern are developing methods to teach its students how to succeed.  The lessons are being transferred to the wider, local community

$8,000 

  Parkland Crossing, Dauphin
Located in a former Indian residential school, Parkland offers low income housing and facilities for other charitable agencies to undertake their activities.  A boiler has been replaced.

$50,000 

  Nova House, Selkirk
A new women’s shelter is being constructed.

$50,000 

  West Central Women’s Resource Centre, Winnipeg
The Centre is expanding its kitchen to commercial status.  This will enable it to conduct more social outreach by using food preparation and eating together.

$15,000 

   Mount Carmel Clinic, Winnipeg
A major capital campaign will provide space to serve a critical clientele: street women who are addicted and pregnant.

$50,000 

 *John Howard Society, Winnipeg
The Society sponsors a project to help aboriginal prisoners lead a rewarding life upon release.  It is known as OPK and this grant helped to fund the employment coach. 

$16,000 

 Health

Prairie Mountain Regional Health Authority, Brandon
The Manitoba Branch of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Canada has been helped to hold a local conference on mental health issues.

$2,000

Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg
This grant will help the HSC conduct neuroscience research as it pertains to mental illness.

$100,000

 Southern Regional Health Authority, Carman
The palliative care unit at the Carman hospital has purchased two infusion pumps for the treatment of pain.

$5,000

Jocelyn House, Winnipeg
Beds and furniture, appropriate for palliative patients, has been purchased with this grant.

$15,000

 Ronald McDonald House, Manitoba
This grant, payable over 3 years, will help Ronald McDonald cope with increased demand from its clients in rural and northern Manitoba.

$90,000

Children & Youth

Variety, The Children’s Charity of Manitoba
Payable over 3 years, this grant will help inner-city children be screened and treated for good dental health.

$100,000

The Robb Nash Project
The Project seeks to teach young people about the perils of substance abuse and prevent suicide.

$30,000

Manitoba Foster Family Network
The Network is conducting forums throughout Manitoba to help improve the lives of foster children.

$6,000

Jessie Home, Winnipeg
This shelter for young people will be improved with new furniture and renovations.

$9,100

Binscarth Park and Pool
Extensive repairs to the pool will ensure that young people will continue to learn the life saving skill of swimming.

$15,000

Prison Fellowship, Winnipeg
  Camperships allow the children of federal and provincial inmates to attend summer camp.

$14,400

Manitoba Camping Association, Winnipeg
 The MCA will distribute $25,000 of this grant in the form of camperships.  The remaining $15,000 will be used to hire a staff person to help expand the agency’s capacity.

$40,000

Youth for Christ, Winnipeg
  This grant has partly funded “Work Force”, a project that offers work experience to inner-city children and keeps them out of harm’s way.

$10,000

* Boys & Girls Club, Thompson
With the help of this award the Club has expanded its work to the Eastwood neighbourhood of Thompson.

$20,000 

* Child/Family Resource Centre, Flin Flon
“Best Beginnings: Baby and Me” is a program that helps moms and their babies get off to a good start together.  The Centre delivers the program in several northern communities.

$5,000 

*St. Thomas Anglican Church, Winnipeg
This church serves the Weston and Brooklands neighbourhoods.  To keep children entertained in a safe environment it operates the Kreative Kids program.

$5,000 

*Swan River Daycare Centre
A new and larger building will help the Centre meet the high demand for spaces in the Swan Valley area.

$15,000 

 *Youth Employment Services, Winnipeg
YES helps young people secure employment by teaching them resume writing and interview skills.  A new computer laboratory will help its clients prepare for and obtain employment.

$10,000 

Education

Pan Am Clinic Foundation, Winnipeg
A Medical Careers Exploration Program is directed at aboriginal students who would otherwise be unlikely to consider such options. This award helped with the costs of delivering the program.

$13,256

Boissevain & Morton Regional Library

Southwestern Manitoba Regional Library, Pierson
Libraries are places of education and recreation for all ages.  The Boissevain library is building a new facility.  The Pierson library has relocated and acquired new furniture with this grant.

$20,000

$7,500

Centre for Aboriginal Human Resource Development, Winnipeg
The Centre offers a variety of technical training to help aboriginal people obtain good jobs and enjoy their lives.  A nutrition project was partly funded with this grant.

$10,000

Brandon University
Student teachers from the North are being equipped with IPads for use when they return to remote public schools where they will work.

$10,000 

Bookmates, Winnipeg
A new project, “Growing and Learning Together”, will partner with inner-city agencies that serve at-risk young people and expectant parents who face multiple challenges.

$8,224

 * Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
The Sistema music training program is being delivered to King Edward Community School in the inner city.  Music training has been shown to promote self-esteem and lead to higher education outcomes.

$15,000 

Heritage

Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre, Morden
The CFDC is home to the world’s largest Squalicorax shark fossil. It will be professionally prepared and displayed with the help of this grant.

$15,000

Cathedral Church of St. John, Winnipeg
These funds will help with the preservation of this provincially-designed heritage building.

$7,500

Neubergthal Heritage Foundation
Neubergthal is a National Historic Site renowned for its priceless collection of Mennonite housebarns. This award will assist in the restoration and adaptive reuse of the Eddie Schmidt Housebarn.

$50,000

Christ Church Anglican, The Pas
This heritage church is famous for its “Cree Panels”.  The church and the panels, which date to the 19th century, are being restored.

$10,000

Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Morden
Modern lighting has been installed to improve the museum’s displays.

$1,000

 Catholic Health Association of Manitoba
The Association, in honor of the 170 years of service rendered by Catholic Sisters in Manitoba, has developed several events to commemorate that heritage.

$7,000

 Souris & District Heritage Club
A 132 year old church in Souris is owned and maintained by the Club.  Known as “the Plum” for its colour, it is undergoing renovations.

$3,000

 Portage la Prairie Heritage
In 1891, instructions for the construction of the CPR station in Portage la Prairie were given by Sir William Van Horne, the iconic chief engineer of the railway.  This group is restoring the structure.

$10,000

 Air Cadet League of Canada, Winnipeg
Andrew Mynarski, a Winnipeger, won the Victoria Cross as a member of Bomber Command during World War II.  A statue has been erected in Vimy Ridge Park in his honour.

$15,000

 Miami Railway Station Museum
This former Northern Pacific and Manitoba Railway station is maintained by volunteers.  Their current project is window repairs.

$6,000

 Manitoba Historical Society and Friends of Riding Mountain National Park
These agencies are co-operating to commemorate the Cantin family of McCreary, Manitoba.  The Cantins provided the largest number of siblings to Canada’s effort in World War II, 8 brothers and 1 sister.  Three brothers were killed.

$5,000

Arts & Culture

Manitoba Theatre for Young People
This grant will help MTYP tour its shows to rural and northern Manitoba. Plays focus on issues of importance to young people.

$10,000

Artspace, Inc., Winnipeg
This award will help to fund ArtSupport MB, a program designed to help arts agencies around the province become more financially independent.

$15,000

Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, Winnipeg
MAWA engages aboriginal and immigrant women in artistic endeavours to encourage cross-cultural understanding.

$2,000

 Shakespeare in the Ruins, Winnipeg
Antony and Cleopatra will be performed in Central Park for the enjoyment of local residents who would otherwise not have such an opportunity.

$5,000

 Province University College, Otterburne
The theatre department at Providence offers touring performances by students which focus on issues of importance to young people.  This grant helped to purchase equipment.

$7,500

 Winkler Arts & Culture Inc.
The former Winkler Water Treatment Plant is being converted to a centre for the arts.  The landmark water tower will remain.

$50,000

Services for Seniors

Tabor Home, Morden
A long-awaited, new personal care home is being constructed in Morden. This grant will help fund resident gardens and pathways.

$75,000

Betel Home Foundation, Selkirk
Residents’ rooms in this personal care home are being refurbished.

$20,000

Environment

Red River Basin Commission, Winnipeg
The annual, international conference of the Red River Basin Commission has been supported with this grant.

$5,000

Lake Friendly, Winnipeg
 In order to expand its message regarding the rehabilitation of Lake Winnipeg a new social media strategy is being implemented with the help of students.

$5,000

Deerwood Soil & Water Management
 The Tobacco Creek Model Watershed is an outstanding example of soil and water stewardship.  Expansion of its footprint has been supported.

$15,000

* Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources, Brokenhead
 CIER is helping the Brokenhead First Nation to assess, protect and restore a precious wetland near Lake Winnipeg.

$10,000