Grants Update
These pages reflect the grants awarded subsequent to our last year end and since August 1, 2015. At our coming year end, July 31, 2016,
these grants will form the core of our next annual report. These pages are updated regularly.
Those grants marked with an asterisk ( * ) are new awards.
Family & Community Services
*SEED, Winnipeg
Over 3 years this grant will help marginalized people secure a
variety of government benefits to which they are entitled, but
which they have difficulty accessing. It is known as the Access
to Benefits program.
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$75,000 |
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*SMD Self-Help Clearinghouse, Winnipeg
The Clearinghouse hosts several small agencies that serve
people with physical disabilities. This grant partners with
SEED Winnipeg to deliver its Access to Benefits programs
to those people.
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$15,000 |
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*Asperger Manitoba, Winnipeg
This award has partly funded Asperger Manitoba’s
biannual national conference.
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$3,000 |
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* YWCA, Brandon
Serving women and children in distress is the YWCA’s
mission. Its building has undergone renovations.
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$25,000 |
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* Food Matters Manitoba, Winnipeg
FMM operates a community garden at the
University of Manitoba to help immigrant
families integrate by learning to grow food.
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$5,000 |
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*LITE, Winnipeg
This agency promotes the employment of marginalized
people from Winnipeg’s poorest communities. Its annual
fundraiser, the Wild Blueberry Breakfast, was assisted.
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$4,000 |
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Health
* Grace General Hospital, Winnipeg
As part of a larger capital campaign an MRI is being
located at the Grace.
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$50,000 |
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Children & Youth
*Winnipeg Harvest
“Tools for School” is a program that helps children from
low income families have the supplies to start school in
the fall.
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$15,000 |
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*Can U Canada, Winnipeg
This program introduces children to University of Manitoba educational
and sports programs. The grant is payable over 3 years. |
$75,000 |
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Education
Heritage
Arts and Culture
*Manitoba Crafts Museum & Library, Winnipeg
The MCML is moving to larger and more efficient quarters
Leasehold improvements have been partly funded with this grant. |
$25,000 |
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*Urban Shaman Gallery, Winnipeg
An arts workshop focused on inner-city youth has
been assisted. |
$4,250 |
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Services for Seniors
Environment
*RM of Yellowhead, Shoal Lake
A children’s splash park has been built in Shoal Lake.
This grant helps to cover the additional costs of re-circulating
the water in the system rather than allowing it to be lost. |
$10,000 |
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*University of Winnipeg
For several years the Foundation has supported research
on Dead Horse Creek in southern Manitoba as a vehicle for
documenting the pressures on Lake Winnipeg. This grant
helped to fund a video documentary on the project’s history
for the purposes of public education. |
$7,500 |
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*Safe Drinking Water Foundation
The SDWF is headquartered in Saskatoon and specializes in
providing water analysis kits to science students in public
schools. Such kits have been funded for use by Manitoba
schools. |
$10,000 |
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