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Greetings!
This month in our e-news we celebrate 90 years of community philanthropy with the anniversary of the Winnipeg Foundation, Canada's oldest Community Foundation. As a member of Community Foundations of Canada, 175 community foundations strong across this great nation, we share together, we learn together, and we celebrate together. Congratulations to the board and staff of the Winnipeg Foundation for 90 years of making a difference locally.
As a Foundation we are young, but wise at 15 years old. But in that 15 years we've managed to do some incredible things locally, all with the generous support of our fund holders, donors and volunteers. For without you, we would not exist. For this I say thank you and look what we have to look forward to. The more we grow our asset base of funds, the greater our community grants will be each year.
We look forward to the upcoming Community Foundation's of Canada International Conference in Vancouver this May to meeting with colleagues and sharing great resources, ideas and inspiration of community vitality. Tracey Vavrek, Executive DirectorPh: 780.538.2820Email: tracey@buildingtomorrowtoday.com
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COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS CELEBRATE 90 YEARS OF COMMUNITY PHILANTHROPY
As we locally are celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Community Foundation of Greater Grande Prairie, the Winnipeg Foundation, Canada's first Community Foundation is celebrating 90 years of community philanthropy.
Community Foundations of Canada, our national membership organization now has more than 176 members across our great country. Community Foundation's nationally serve 89% of Canadians with annual grants of $140 million into our charitable sector.Total assets of Community Foundations are $2.85 billion ensuring sustainable support for organizations forever.
Established in 1921 with a $100,000 donation Winnipeg Foundation has now grown to over 2,250 funds established by donors of all walks of life. In 2010, the Winnipeg Foundation granted $21 million to almost 700 local charities.Over the 90 year history the Winnipeg Foundation has dispersed $260 million into their community. See what we have to look forward to!
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Winnipeg Board members and CEO Rick Frost celebrating 90 years of community philanthropy
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WE'RE SEEKING VOLUNTEER BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Do you believe in philanthropy and giving back locally? Are you passionate about community? Are you interested in encouraging others to contribute to the Peace Country's future? If so we'd love to hear from you.
The Community Foundation of Greater Grande Prairie is currently accepting resumes from interested community members from throughout the region to fill vacancies at their Annual General Meeting to be held on April 20th, plus to use when there are Board vacancies to be filled.
For more information, including how to submit an application please click here.
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LOCAL AGENCY FUNDS HELD AT THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Did you know the Community Foundation holds endowment funds for 5 local charities?
The Golden Age Centre Fund
Grande Prairie and Area Safe Communities Fund
Grande Prairie Live Theatre Fund
Grande Prairie Public Library Fund
and KidSport Grande Prairie Fund
An agency endowment fund is a safe and simple way for a nonprofit organization to establish its own endowment. Donors can be sure that the fund's principal will not be spent and can grow over time, providing a source of lasting support. And the community foundation's economies of scale provide your organization with the benefits of a diverse investment portfolio and low investment fees that typically come only with very large funds.
The community foundation can facilitate even the most complex planned gifts or gifts of appreciated stock or real estate. We handle investment management and the administrative responsibilities related to endowment so that these organization's staff and volunteer hours are concentrated on fulfilling their mission.
If any of these organizations are close to your heart we encourage you to consider a gift to their fund, a gift that will keep giving year after year, ensuring sustainable support for your favorite organization.
Your gift - and all future earnings from your gift - is a permanent source of community capital, helping to do good work forever. You can make a secure online gift to any one of these charitable funds at any time or contact our office at 780.538.2820 or info@buildingtomorrowtoday.com. |
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SEXSMITH & TRADING AREA ESTATE & FINANCIAL PLANNING SESSION
Please Join Us for this FREE event:
March 10, 2011 at 7 pm
Sexsmith Civic Centre, East Entrance
Presenting:
- Tracey Vavrek, Executive Director, Community Foundation of Greater Grande Prairie
- Don Blonke, BDO Canada LLP
- Lyle Carlstrom, Kay McVey Smith & Carlstrom LLP
Learn how you can leave a local legacy and touch the community with a gift to the Sexsmith Community Foundation Fund.
Beverages and snacks provided. If you are planning to attend please take a moment to let us know:
RSVP to Dennis Milligan by email or phone 780-568-3010.
Special thanks to: Town of Sexsmith, Sexsmith Elks Club, Sexsmith Chamber of Commerce, Sexsmith Community Foundation, The Estate & Financial Planning Institute, BDO Canada LLP, Kay McVey Smith & Carlstrom LLP, Sexsmith Insurance and the Rycroft Family for making this possible.
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Mission
We inspire philanthropy by providing a way for anyone to leave a lasting legacy through permanent endowment building, responsible grants and leadership to meet our community's needs for today, tomorrow and forever.
Vision
Bringing donors and charities together to enrich the whole community.
Proud member of
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Demonstrating Corporate Citizenship In Our Community
The following companies have made giving part of their mission.
Please support those who support us!
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Community Foundation of Greater Grande Prairie
Phone: 780.538.2820 Fax: 780.532.0672
Email: info@buildingtomorrowtoday.com
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We hope you will share this e-news with someone who may be interested in the work we do. If you feel that the Foundation is worthy of support, perhaps they will too.
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