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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