Family Dynamics, Winnipeg
For 8 decades Family Dynamics has served Winnipeg families in need. This grant purchased tickets to help low income families participate in its 80th anniversary celebrations.
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$2,500 |
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 LITE, Winnipeg  Samaritan House Ministries, Brandon  Brandon YM/YWCA  The Momentum Centre, Winnipeg  SEED, Winnipeg  Thompson Humane Society  Prairie Partners, Boissevain  Inner City Youth Alive, Winnipeg  Daniel McIntyre / St. Matthews Community Association, Winnipeg  Food Matters Manitoba, Winnipeg  Habitat for Humanity SE Chapter  Variety: The Children’s Charity of Manitoba, Winnipeg  Frontier College Foundation, Winnipeg  Musee St. Joseph Museum  Heritage Winnipeg  Musee St. Pierre Jolys Inc. 
 Red River Basin Commission, Winnipeg
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The Winnipeg Foundation
The Winnipeg Foundation and the Thomas Sill Foundation have a unique relationship with the Nitra Community Foundation in Slovakia. This grant helped to build its “Manitoba Fund”.
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$5,000 |
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LITE, Winnipeg
LITE helps marginalized people secure employment. This grant helped to fund its major annual fundraiser, the Wild Blueberry Pancake Breakfast.
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$5,000 |
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Pembina Counselling Centre, Morden
New premises have been renovated by Pembina to help serve its clients, most of whom have personal and family crises to address.
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$20,000 |
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Samaritan House Ministries, Brandon
Samaritan House provides a wide range of services including housing, emergency shelter, counselling and a food bank to marginalized people in Brandon. This grant helped to keep its winter “Safe and Warm Shelter” open.
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$25,000 |
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Brandon YM/YWCA
Low income families in Brandon can benefit from subsidized memberships at the “Y”. This grant helped to fund that program.
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$13,000 |
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The Momentum Centre, Winnipeg
The Centre helps to secure futures for adolescents who badly need guidance. Its success rate is high. The Centre has purchased a building which it had been renting.
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$25,000
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Christmas Cheer Board of Winnipeg
Salvation Army
Winnipeg Harvest
Union Gospel Mission
Siloam Mission
Christmas Cheer Boards in rural Manitoba
Annually, the Foundation helps these agencies which are helping the needy at Christmas
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$11,000
$10,000
$10,000
$3,000
$3,000
$8,500 |
SEED, Winnipeg
Over 3 years this grant will help immigrants and refugees use their marketable credentials under SEED’s “Recognition Counts” program.
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$75,000
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Thompson Humane Society
Significant improvements to the Society’s building are necessary if it is to continue being a regional refuge to abandoned and neglected animals in the North.
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$10,000
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Prairie Partners, Boissevain
The “Sawmill Tea and Coffee House” offers employment to developmentally disabled adults and a friendly meeting place for the community. New flooring has been installed.
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$10,000
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Pulford Housing, Winnipeg
Two new group homes are being built by Pulford to offer a safe and welcoming environment for mentally challenged adults.
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$15,000
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Inner City Youth Alive, Winnipeg
Young people are encouraged to stay in school and learn life skills at this core area refuge where they also learn to stay out of harm’s way. Renovations to the building were undertaken.
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$10,000
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Daniel McIntyre / St. Matthews Community Association, Winnipeg
Bed bugs are a scourge, particularly (but not exclusively) in poorer neighborhoods where this agency is a leader in remediation.
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$15,000
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Food Matters Manitoba, Winnipeg
FMM promotes food security, primarily for marginalized people. This grant helped to fund its “Newcomer Nutrition Program”.
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$12,000
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Riverdale Place Workshop, Arborg
Developmentally delayed adults in the Interlake region are provided with meaningful employment and valuable socialization. A new wheelchair van has been acquired.
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$20,000
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Habitat for Humanity SE Chapter
The Chapter builds homes in the Southeast region of Manitoba for lower income families. The current project is to build a side by side for 2 families in Mitchell, Manitoba
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$10,000
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Oak Lake Hall (RM of Sifton), Oak Lake
Oak Lake Community Hall has served the community well over 30 years. This grant helped to fund hall renovations.
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$15,000
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Health
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St. Raphael Wellness Centre Foundation, Winnipeg
Individuals who have undergone therapy for mental illnesses benefit from the “post-treatment”, or follow-up services, provided by St. Raphael.
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$25,000 |
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Mount Carmel Clinic Foundation, Winnipeg
Sage House is a shelter for homeless women. Here they are provided with medical and mental health care while being helped to re-build their lives.
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$30,000 |
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Children & Youth
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Day Nursery Centre, Winnipeg
Three inner-city day cares are operated by this agency. Renovations at all three have been assisted.
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$10,000 |
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Variety: The Children’s Charity of Manitoba, Winnipeg
Payable over 3 years, this grant will help Variety continue to deliver its excellent dental program to inner-city children. Tooth pain is a leading cause of absenteeism. |
$50,000 |
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Right to Play, Toronto
This international agency is headquartered in Toronto. In Manitoba it helps First Nations children on reserves learn the joys and attain the benefits of sports. The grant is payable over 3 years. |
$30,000 |
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Knowles Centre, Winnipeg
The Centre provides accommodation, education and other social services to children entrusted to its care. One of its apartment buildings needed a new boiler.
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$18,000
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YM-YWCA, Winnipeg
New equipment including toys and play stations has been acquired by this inner-city daycare.
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$10,000
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Victoria Albert Daycare, Winnipeg
Victoria Albert is located in the very heart of the core area. This multi-purpose grant covered repairs, equipment, supplies and toys.
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$10,000
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Westgrove Children’s Centre, Winnipeg
This high needs suburban daycare received funds for a variety of operational purposes.
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$3,500
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Education
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Frontier College Foundation, Winnipeg
Frontier operates summer camps in remote locations to help vulnerable children combat the phenomenon of “summer learning loss”.
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$10,000 |
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Manitoba Young Readers Choice Awards, Winnipeg
This agency promotes reading as an irreplaceable part of education as well as a satisfying pastime. It’s “Books in a Box” program helps children in remote communities to have access to books.
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$3,000
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Heritage
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Musee St. Joseph Museum
The historic Union Point School has been moved to St. Joseph and has been restored.
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$10,000 |
Heritage Winnipeg
Winnipeg’s last streetcar, old number 356, is being restored in time for the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike.
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$15,000
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Societe Historique de Saint Boniface
The historical society serving Francophone Manitobans has acquired new, moveable shelving for its archives.
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$10,000
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Ogniwo Polish Museum, Winnipeg
Fittingly located in Winnipeg’s North End, the museum has paved the parking lot and improved its exterior lighting.
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$4,000
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Rural Municipality of Dufferin
A cairn has been erected to commemorate the building and flying of the first helicopter in Canada in Homewood, Manitoba in 1938.
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$2,000
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Musee St. Pierre Jolys Inc, Saint Pierre-Jolys
The museum is located in the Municipality of De Salaberry on the banks of the historical Rat River and Joubert Creek. This grant helped with the overall maintenance of the Museum.
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$10,000
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The Historical Museum of St. James-Assiniboia, Winnipeg
Located in St. James-Assiniboia, consists of three buildings including the first District of Assiniboia Municipal Government Building. This grant helped pay for a new furnace in one of their buildings.
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$3,100
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Arts & Culture
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Royal Winnipeg Ballet
The RWB, through its “Sharing Dance” program is engaging with inner-city students to help them experience and appreciate dance. |
$10,000 |
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Shakespeare in the Ruins, Winnipeg
A unique program is introducing Shakespeare to inmates at Stoney Mountain Penitentiary. Those studying the bard gain self-confidence as well as a high school credit in drama. These inmates are courageous. |
$6,000 |
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Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, Winnipeg
A new central air conditioner will help MAWA deliver its life-changing artistic endeavours to women in the community, many of whom have significant challenges to overcome. |
$4,715 |
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Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg
RMTC tours rural and northern Manitoba to facilitate exposure to professional theatre for isolated Manitobans. |
$10,000 |
Camerata Nova, Winnipeg
This grant helped Camerata Nova deliver its arts programming in northern Manitoba.
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$5,160
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Services for Seniors
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A & O: Support Services for Older Adults, Winnipeg
The program, “Senior Centre Without Walls”, helps isolated seniors gain access to the services provided by A & O via technology. |
$15,000 |
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Environment
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Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources, Winnipeg
The Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, north of Winnipeg, is restoring and protecting the Brokenhead Wetland. |
$7,900 |
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Safe Drinking Water Foundation, Saskatoon
Scientific kits have been provided to teachers in rural and northern Manitoba schools for use in the existing curriculum to teach students about the protection and pollution of water. |
$10,000 |
Red River Basin Commission, Winnipeg
Red River Basin Commission creates a shared vision for action with regards to land and water issues. This grant helped subsidize their 34th annual Red River Basin Land and Water International Summit Conference. |
$2,500 |
