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grants & agency services: recent community grants (2008)
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Community Grant Listing - January 2008
Community Service
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A Port in the Storm |
Capital campaign |
$20,000 |
Aboriginal Seniors Resources Centre |
Van purchase |
$30,000 |
Arcane Horizon |
Web-based database |
$25,000 |
Association for Community Living, Manitoba |
Programming |
$75,000 |
Canadian Centre on Disability Studies |
Action plan for visitable housing |
$10,000 |
Council of Canadians with Disabilities |
Telling our Story: From the Holocaust to the UN Disability Rights Convention |
$4,000 |
DASCH Foundation |
Down payment on a home |
$20,000 |
Day Nursery Centre |
100th Anniversary project and facility upgrades |
$11,000 |
Dreams Take Flight |
Disney World trip |
$10,000 |
E-Quality Communication Centre of Excellence |
Video interpretation equipment |
$20,000 |
Eyaa-Keen Centre |
Data-base client management system |
$20,000 |
Family Support Centre of Winnipeg |
Educational display |
$6,000 |
Freight House Early Learning and Care |
Renovations and equipment |
$30,000 |
Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba |
Community Resource Program |
$30,000 |
K.E.E.P. Child Care |
Renovations and furniture |
$30,000 |
L'Arche Winnipeg |
Public awareness campaign |
$6,000 |
Luxton Playcentre |
Equipment and supplies |
$4,735 |
Manidoo Gi-Miinigonaan/R.B. Russell Infant Centre |
Turtle Island Parent and Tot Program |
$31,725 |
Manitoba Rural Search & Rescue Association |
Programming in Island Lake communities |
$60,000 |
New Direction for Life Ministries |
House of Hesed |
$13,500 |
North End Community Renewal Corporation |
Tenant Landlord Cooperation program |
$30,000 |
The Rainbow Society |
Volunteer coordinator and marketing materials |
$25,000 |
River Avenue Cooperative Day Nursery |
Relocation costs |
$15,000 |
Siloam Mission Church of Nazarene |
Dental Program Coordinator |
$10,000 |
St. Matthews Kids Korner |
Summer camp and after school program |
$30,660 |
Villa Cabrini Senior Citizens Residence |
Supportive living project |
$20,000 |
Volunteer Manitoba |
On-line volunteer referral program |
$40,000 |
Westminster Housing Society |
Facility amenities |
$8,000 |
Wolseley Family Place |
New Realities program |
$50,000 |
Youth for Christ, Winnipeg |
Youth employment program |
$25,000 |
Education
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African Canadian Disability Community Association |
University course development |
$20,000 |
Canadian Council of the Blind |
Computers and training |
$14,000 |
Creative Retirement Manitoba |
Volunteer coordinator position |
$20,000 |
French for the Future/le Francais pour L'Avenir |
French for the Future conference |
$3,000 |
Manitoba WorkinfoNET |
Web-based video tutorials |
$10,000 |
Reaching E-Quality Employment Services |
Celebrating the Stars Event |
$5,000 |
Royal Conservatory of Music |
Youth Empowerment program |
$50,000 |
Society for the Advancement of Excellence in Education |
Aboriginal Schools Improvement Grants Program |
$20,000 |
Spence Neighbourhood Association |
First Jobs for Youth |
$20,000 |
White Buffalo Spiritual Society |
Youth employment program |
$18,000 |
Winnipeg Board of Jewish Education |
Website upgrades for Gray Academy |
$2,500 |
Winnipeg School Division |
Inner City Soccer League |
$5,000 |
Health
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Canadian Cancer Society, Manitoba Division |
Renovations |
$40,000 |
Convalescent Home of Winnipeg |
Facility upgrades |
$20,000 |
Mount Carmel Clinic |
Research project on long term impact of torture on refugees |
$18,500 |
University of Manitoba |
Manitoba Medical Service Foundation |
$25,000 |
Environment
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Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication |
Capacity building |
$10,000 |
Community Foundations of Canada |
Foundations in the Lake Winnipeg Watershed strategy |
$25,000 |
Ducks Unlimited Canada |
Wetland Centre of Excellence Program |
$10,000 |
Manitoba Eco-Network |
Children's Environmental Health Project |
$33,120 |
Nature Conservancy of Canada, Manitoba Region |
Field trips for inner-city students |
$20,000 |
Resource Conservation Manitoba |
Active and Safe Routes to School Program |
$9,376 |
Sustainability Network |
Boreal Learning Network |
$15,000 |
West Broadway Development Corporation |
Volunteer coordinator for greening project |
$19,270 |
Zoological Society of Manitoba |
Educational Interpretive Program at Assiniboine Park Zoo |
$10,000 |
Heritage
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Association of Manitoba Museums |
Professional Development Program |
$10,000 |
Heritage Winnipeg |
Educational Outreach Program |
$10,000 |
Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association |
Memorial wall |
$5,000 |
St. Boniface Museum (Le Musee de Saint-Boniface) |
Strategic plan |
$20,000 |
Westminster United Church |
Facility upgrades |
$15,000 |
Arts & Culture
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Agassiz Music/Agassiz Summer Chamber Music Festival |
Summer Chamber Music Festival |
$4,000 |
Alliance Francaise Du Manitoba |
Fęte de la Musique |
$10,000 |
Art City |
Celebration Artist Series and anniversary activities |
$30,000 |
Assiniboine Park Bandshell (Lyric Theatre) |
Summer programming |
$10,000 |
Camerata Nova |
Part-time position and website redesign |
$7,000 |
Canzona |
Performance of Handel's Messiah and CD production |
$10,000 |
Chai Folk Arts Council |
Marketing and communications |
$15,000 |
Dry Cold Productions |
Website |
$2,900 |
The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Winnipeg |
Electric piano |
$3,200 |
Manitoba Band Association |
Optimist Band Festival |
$2,500 |
Manitoba Japanese Canadian Culture Centre |
Signage |
$21,565 |
Manitoba Opera Association |
Capacity building |
$15,000 |
Manitoba Writers' Guild |
Capacity building |
$15,000 |
The Musical Offering |
2007/08 season |
$3,000 |
Oleg and Friends |
2007/08 concert series |
$2,000 |
Platform: Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts |
Prairiescape Project |
$10,000 |
Prairie Fire Press |
Home Place 2: the Creative Non-Fiction Writers of Winnipeg |
$10,000 |
The Ukrainian Cultural & Educational Centre |
Facility upgrades |
$6,447 |
University of Winnipeg Foundation |
Virtuosi Concerts annual spring festival |
$15,000 |
West End Cultural Centre |
Capital campaign |
$25,000 |
The Winnipeg Classical Guitar Society |
Concert season |
$3,000 |
Winnipeg Film Group |
Presentation equipment |
$15,000 |
Winnipeg International Children's Festival |
C.A.M.P. program |
$25,000 |
Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir |
Multi-media concert production |
$3,000 |
Winnipeg Scottish Festival |
Winnipeg Scottish Festival |
$3,000 |
The Winnipeg Singers |
Administrative support initiative |
$5,000 |
Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers |
Dance production |
$10,000 |
Recreation
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Brandon University |
Mini University subsidies |
$10,000 |
City of Winnipeg |
Recreation program subsidies |
$30,000 |
Friends of Sherbrook Pool |
Kidswim program |
$10,000 |
Community Grant Listing - May 2008
Community Service
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Adoption Options Manitoba |
Project administration and print materials |
$20,000 |
Agape Table |
Interim operating support |
$45,000 |
Aulneau Renewal Centre |
First Nations and Métis family attachment program |
$50,000 |
Better Fathers |
Conference on fatherhood |
$5,000 |
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Winnipeg |
Empowering Our Little Sisters |
$50,000 |
Boys and Girls Clubs of Winnipeg |
Purchase of 20-passenger bus |
$30,000 |
Brooklands Pioneer Senior Citizens Club |
Director position |
$36,000 |
Children's Wish Foundation of Canada |
Wishnic 2008. |
$2,000 |
Elmwood Community Resource Centre and Area Association |
Kennlyside Resource Centre |
$35,000 |
Fort Garry Women's Resource Centre |
Strategic fund development plan |
$30,000 |
Fort Rouge Child Care Programs Board |
Facility upgrades |
$20,000 |
Habitat for Humanity Winnipeg |
Software and organizational study |
$30,000 |
Helping Hands Resource Centre for Immigrants |
Programming for Afro-Manitoban youth and families |
$19,794 |
Heritage Park Children's Programs |
Toddler play structure |
$24,364 |
The Laurel Centre |
Coordinator position |
$10,000 |
Learning Disabilities Association of Manitoba |
Project or programming support |
$10,000 |
Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre |
PACE program |
$36,100 |
Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre |
Aboriginal Visioning for the North End project |
$65,000 |
Manidoo Gi-Miinigonaan/R.B. Russell Infant Centre |
Early learning and childcare centre at Lord Selkirk Park |
$75,000 |
Manitoba Rural Search & Rescue Association |
Program service public relations dog |
$5,000 |
Native Women's Transition Centre |
Community Learning Centre |
$35,000 |
Native Women's Transition Centre |
Transitional housing |
$100,000 |
Niigaanaki Daycare Centre |
Renovations |
$10,000 |
Nor'West Co-op Community Health Centre |
Blake Gardens Involved in Action project |
$35,000 |
North End Community Renewal Corporation |
Aboriginal youth housing renovation project |
$22,136 |
Northend Community Ministry |
Two Paths One Journey program |
$20,000 |
River East Transcona School Division |
Prince Edward Birth to Four Caregivers program |
$10,000 |
Sierra Leone Refugee Resettlement |
Summer learning project |
$23,000 |
Simaril |
Down payment on a house |
$25,000 |
St. James-Assiniboia Senior Centre |
Learning the Way Across Generations project |
$20,000 |
Winnipeg Harvest |
Canstruction project |
$30,000 |
YM - YWCA of Winnipeg |
Women of Distinction Awards |
$5,000 |
Education
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Actua |
Inner-city school camps |
$17,000 |
Duke of Edinburgh's Award Young Canadians Challenge, Manitoba Division |
Lighthouses Implementation Initiative |
$30,000 |
Junior Achievement of Manitoba |
Volunteer management and stewardship program |
$25,000 |
Learning Partnership of Greater Toronto |
Welcome to Kindergarten program in Winnipeg inner-city schools |
$15,000 |
The Lieutenant Governor's Youth Experience Program |
Incentives for participants |
$10,000 |
Literacy Partners of Manitoba |
Research analysis |
$25,000 |
Manitoba Metis Federation/Louis Riel Institute |
Standing Tall project |
$25,000 |
Manitoba Indian Cultural Education Centre |
Capital campaign for facility renovations |
$100,000 |
Manitoba Science Academy |
Bursaries for Winnipeg high school students |
$4,000 |
Norwood Nursery School |
American Sign Language training for staff |
$6,282 |
Order of St. Luke, Winnipeg Chapter |
Professional development for staff |
$1,000 |
The Seven Oaks School Division |
Pathways program |
$50,000 |
St. Paul's College |
Winnipeg International Storytelling Festival |
$10,000 |
University of Manitoba |
Aboriginal Student Centre and bursaries |
$300,000 |
The University of Winnipeg Foundation |
Coordinator for Experiential Learning Program |
$7,000 |
Versatech Industries |
Equipment upgrades |
$35,000 |
Wahbung Abinoonjiiag |
Aboriginal Child Support Helper program |
$30,000 |
Winnipeg School Division |
Science laboratory |
$15,000 |
Health
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Alzheimer Society of Manitoba |
Healthy Brain public education initiative |
$30,000 |
Andrews Street Family Centre |
Addictions program for William Whyte community |
$75,000 |
The Behavioural Health Foundation |
Van |
$29,120 |
Klinic Community Health Centre |
Man to Man project |
$30,000 |
Muscular Dystrophy Canada |
Families First program |
$20,000 |
The Osteoporosis Society of Canada, Manitoba Chapter |
Bones for Life project |
$24,000 |
St. John Ambulance |
Capital campaign support |
$100,000 |
Youville Centre |
Capital campaign support |
$50,000 |
Environment
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Fort Whyte Alive |
Greenhouse Training and Education Coordinator |
$25,000 |
The Friends of the Assiniboine Park Conservatory |
Abilities Garden project for children |
$10,000 |
Nature Conservancy of Canada |
Workshop for teachers |
$10,900 |
Polar Bears International, Canada |
Adventure Learning Program Leadership Camp |
$10,000 |
Heritage
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Canada's National History Society |
Website |
$40,000 |
College De Saint-Boniface |
Commemorative publication |
$15,000 |
The Dominion Institute |
Memory Project digital archive |
$20,000 |
La Maison Gabrielle-Roy |
Gabrielle Roy literary walking tour |
$30,000 |
Mennonite Heritage Village, Canada |
Costumes |
$3,500 |
The Vintage Locomotive Society |
Railway track rehabilitation |
$50,000 |
Western Canada Aviation Museum |
Business plan |
$7,500 |
Arts & Culture
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Contemporary Verse 2 |
Translation |
$10,000 |
Graffiti Art Programming |
Strategic plan and symposium |
$15,000 |
GroundSwell |
Young Composers and New Music concert |
$3,000 |
Le Cercle Moliere |
Capital campaign support |
$25,000 |
Manitoba Arts Network (Manitoba Association of Community Arts Councils) |
Rural and Northern Art Show |
$2,500 |
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra |
Commission of new music and to support a film collaboration |
$20,000 |
Manitoba Printmakers' Association |
Community outreach |
$15,000 |
Manitoba Theatre for Young People |
Aboriginal Arts Training and mentorship programs |
$20,000 |
Manitoba Writers' Guild |
On the Same Page project |
$6,000 |
The Musical Offering |
Marketing initiatives |
$5,000 |
National Screen Institute |
Furniture, equipment and renovations |
$15,851 |
Plug In |
Feasibility study for capital campaign |
$35,000 |
Sarasvŕti Dramatic Theatre Productions and Repertory |
Production of play |
$15,000 |
St. Norbert Arts Centre |
Signage and public relations materials |
$5,000 |
Storyline FX/Freeze Frame |
Staffing |
$30,000 |
Winnipeg Art Gallery |
Retrospective exhibitions of Manitoba artists |
$20,000 |
Winnipeg Arts Council |
Youth Arts Initiative Collaborative Grant Program |
$15,000 |
Winnipeg School Division |
ARTCLASS project at Strathcona School |
$5,000 |
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra |
Educational outreach at inner city schools |
$20,000 |
Recreation
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Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability |
Manitoba Adaptive Golf Initiative Coalition |
$10,000 |
B'nai Brith Jewish Community Camp |
Motor boat and camperships |
$25,000 |
Bird River Camping |
Facility upgrades |
$15,000 |
Camp Massad |
Camperships for newcomer children and sports equipment |
$20,000 |
Camp Quality Manitoba |
Programming |
$10,000 |
Canadian Diabetes Association, Manitoba Division |
Camperships for children with diabetes |
$15,000 |
Chess Federation of Canada/Manitoba Chess Association |
6th Annual Abe Yanofsky Memorial Chess Tournament |
$2,000 |
Gimli Bible Camp (Canadian Sunday School Mission) |
Maintenance garage |
$5,000 |
Manitoba Pioneer Camp and Wild-Wise Wilderness Adventures |
Camperships |
$6,500 |
Louis Riel Institute |
To support local athletes in the North American Indigenous Games |
$40,000 |
Manitoba Camping Association |
Camperships and publicity |
$32,500 |
Manitoba Recreational Trails Association |
Trail development |
$25,000 |
Manitoba Riding for the Disabled Association |
Rental of riding arena |
$25,000 |
Rossbrook House |
Summer programming for youth |
$8,100 |
Winnipeg Inner City Missions of the Presbyterian Church in Canada |
Summer programming for youth at Flora House |
$8,500 |
Zoological Society of Manitoba |
Educational Interpretive Program at the Assiniboine Park Zoo |
$6,000 |
Community Grant Listing - Archived
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