Brockville & Area Community Foundation held their 2023 Grants Ceremony on Wednesday Morning – VIDEO

Maitland – The Brockville and Area Community Foundation held their 2023 Grants ceremony to celebrate this year’s Community Fund Grant Recipients and Community Services Recover Fund Projects on Wednesday morning at the Maitland Recreation Centre in Maitland.

Four organizations received grants from the Government of Canada’s Community Services Recover Fund which is a one-time investment of $400 million by the government to support the adaptation and modernization needs of non-profit and charitable community service organizations after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The program was a collaboration between the Canadian Red Cross, Community Foundations and United Way Canada.

The four organizations, Girls Inc. of Upper Canada, John Howard Society/Connect Youth, the Brockville Public Library and the Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust were provided with funding to help adapt and modernize internal systems.

The total amount of funding to all four organizations is $357,000 total.

Video news story below:

This year’s Community Fund and Thomas Daily Endowment Fund recipients were:

Community Funds

• Cycling Without Age – Funds will go to overhaul the two 5-year-old Trishaws.
• Brockville and Area Food Bank – Funds for the Survival Packs program
• Scientists in School – funding to help bring STEM education to elementary-aged children in rural and remote areas.
• Senior Support Services CPHC – HOPE fund grant
• Clay Studio Collective – funds for equipment, infrastructure
• Leeds and Grenville Interval House – funding for upgrading a room in the basement to make it more inviting and comfortable.
• DIFA Do It For Aaron Foundation – Battle of the Bands program.
• Commonwealth Public School – Supplementing the hot lunch program at the school sponsored by BBBSLG and Sifton Foundation for 65 children who need a hot lunch subsidy.
• Society of St. Vincent de Paul – Weekender Program provides nourishing snacks/meals to children who experience food insecurity on the weekend.
• Autism Ontario East Region – Fun Art Paint Party for Kids with Autism in Brockville.

Thomas Daily Endowment Fund

• The City of Brockville – Funding towards a new pavilion at Reynolds Park.
• Brockville Rowing Club – Dock repairs.

The total amount of grants from the Community Fund and Thomas Daily Endowment Fund this year is $43,150.

This year the Brockville & Area Community Foundation received applications from 34 local charities with a grand total of $65,000 plus in grant requests via the Community Fund.

As well, they had $38,800 in requests via the Tom Daily Endowment Fund for projects focused on benefitting and beautifying the downtown and waterfront.

The 2023 requests for funding totalled over $100,000.

For more information on the Brockville & Area Community Foundation please visit: https://www.yourcommunityfoundation.ca/ or on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/brockvillefoundation