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  The Momentum Centre, Winnipeg  Variety: The Children’s Charity of Manitoba, Winnipeg  Frontier College Foundation, Winnipeg  Musee St. Joseph Museum
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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
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$11,000
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$10,000
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$3,0000
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Christmas Cheer Boards in rural Manitoba
Annually, the Foundation helps these agencies which are helping the needy at Christmas
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$8,500
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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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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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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 |
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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 |
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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
This agency teaches students that safe drinking water is to be treasured. In pursuit of this goal it makes scientific kits available to high schools to facilitate learning within the existing curriculum. This grant helped with kits destined for Manitoba schools. |
$10,000 |
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