The Community Foundation Grey Bruce is distributing $191,000 in grant funding to support projects across the region.
Executive Director of the foundation Stuart Reid says the 35 organizations who are in the process of receiving the annual funding, comes from the Fall Community Grants and 2023 Capital Grant applications.
“We are really proud to be supporting for example a new Youth Council that’s providing leadership opportunities for young people through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Grey Bruce. There is a bunch of things on the list that address conservation and support for green projects, we are helping out the Bruce Peninsula Biosphere Association with monitoring and improving water quality on the Saugeen Peninsula. We are also helping the Bruce Peninsula Bird Observatory with some nets for migration monitoring at their sites across the region,” says Reid.
He says with the over 180 endowed funds the foundation manages, through community grants they match applications coming in from the community with the interests of the donors.
“The applications approved for capital funding address our recent focus on housing, and on community supports for families,” says Reid.
He adds this annual grant funding is an opportunity for organizations to receive support.
“Our application process asks them to articulate and give us some story telling about what their goals are. The Community Foundation exists to benefit well-being in Grey and Bruce,” says Reid.
More information on how you can donate to a fund or create a new fund, as well as view a list of community grant projects, is available on the Community Foundation Grey Bruce’s website here. Applications for spring will open in January with a deadline set for April 15.
