Local community foundation awards winter grant funding to 17 regional organizations

The Community Foundation of Southeast Alberta has released its winter community grant recipients showing 17 charitable efforts in the region will receive a total of $138,000.

The foundation, which covers southeast Alberta including chapters in the Special Areas, Brooks, Cypress County and the County of Forty Mile, provides several rounds of funding to charities, non-profits and social-service agencies each year.

The next round opens in February. Current grants announced Dec. 8 include grants for Medicine Hat:

– MH Family Services, trauma therapy

training, $20,000;

– Root Cellar, emergency food pantry,

$20,000;

– Big Brothers Big Sisters, group mentor

ing, $15,000;

– Unison Veiner Centre, senior supports

program, $9,693;

– Firekeeper’s Women’s Society, round

dance, $4,500;

– MH Pregnancy Support Centre’s, Hatter

Babies Matter program, $4,000; – Be Youth Centre’s Youth, mobility initiative, $3,500.

Special Areas and the MD of Acadia:

– Chinook Applied Research Society,

CARA Soil Health, $10,000;

– Oyen and District Food Bank, hamper

program, $6,560;

– Empress Friendship Centre, commu

nity centre upgrades, $3,180;

– Hanna Food Bank, hamper program,

$3,075.

Cypress County:

– Irvine and District Ag Society, after

school curling and skating, $9,275,; – Dunmore Equestrian, arena accessibil

ity, $5,000.

Brooks

– Silver Sage Ag Society, facility up

grades, $10,000;

– Rosemary Agricultural Society, Recplex

kitchen upgrade, $10,000;

– City of Brooks, youth police academy,

$1,400.

The County of Forty Mile:

– Forty Mile Regional FCSS, youth summer theatre camp in Bow Island, $3,324.