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Registered charities operating
within the boundaries of
School District #23 can
contact the Foundation to
discuss their granting
needs and requirements.
Grant applications are only
available after consultation
with COF staff.

Please contact Grants
Coordinator Sandi Oloffs at
861-6160 or by email





Abbeyfield Houses Society of Kelowna
Alternator Gallery
Alzheimer Society of BC
Argyle Recovery House
Arts Development Office
Association for Children & Adults with Learning Disabilities

BC Cancer Agency Centre for the Southern Interior
BC Epilepsy Society
BC Lake Stewardship Society
BC Orchard Museum
BC Original Minds Association
BC Special Olympics
BC Tree Fruits
Belaire Women’s Centre
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Okanagan
Board for Life Society
Building Healthy Families Society


Canadian Authors Association – Okanagan Branch
Canadian Celiac Association of Kelowna
Canadian Diabetic Association
Canadian Earthcare Society
Canadian Hard of Hearing Association, Kelowna Branch
Canadian Hemochromatosis Society
Canadian High School Debating Society
Canadian Mental Health Association – Kelowna Branch
Canadian National Institute for the Blind
Canadian Red Cross
Canine Connections Society
Casa Loma Community Association
Central Okanagan Access Awareness
Central Okanagan Brain Injury Society
Central Okanagan Broadcast Society
Central Okanagan Child & Family Resources Society
Central Okanagan Child Care Resources
Central Okanagan Child Development Association
Central Okanagan Community Gardens Society
Central Okanagan Crime Stoppers
Central Okanagan Day Care Society
Central Okanagan Elizabeth Fry Society
Central Okanagan Emergency Shelter Society
Central Okanagan Family Caregivers
Central Okanagan Foundation for Youth
Central Okanagan H.E.L.P. Society
Central Okanagan Head Injury Society
Central Okanagan Heritage Society
Central Okanagan Hospice Association
Central Okanagan Independent Living Society
Central Okanagan Interagency Network (COIN)
Central Okanagan Naturalists’ Club
Central Okanagan Parks & Wildlife Trust
Central Okanagan Resource Development
Central Okanagan Retired Teachers Association
Central Okanagan Roundtable
Central Okanagan Sailing Association
Central Okanagan Science Opportunities for Kids
Central Okanagan Search & Rescue
Central Okanagan Social Planning Society
Central Okanagan United Way
Central Okanagan Women’s Resource & Education Centre
Chamber Music Kelowna Society
Community Learning Society
Community Recreational Initiatives Society
Compassionate Friends
Crossroads Treatment Centre Society


Disabled Sailing Association of BC
Dr. Knox Middle School
Duke of Edinburgh’s Award

Early Maternity Discharge Program
Ellison Centennial Parks & Recreation Society
Esso Sales Agents of BC
Evergreen

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Families of Children Utilizing Services (FOCUS)
Family Support Institute
Fat Cat Children’s Festival
First Okanagan Mission Scouts
First United Church, Kelowna
Fisher Grove Ranch Centre of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons
French Cultural Centre
Friends of Ben Lee Park Society
Friends of Knox Mountain Park
Friends of Mission Creek Greenway Project
Friends of Okanagan Mountain Park
Friends of Parrot Sanctuary Society
Friends of Pioneer Cemetery
Friends of Schizophrenics
Friends of the Fire Museum Society
Friends of the Little Schoolhouse
Friends of the South Slopes

Garden Valley Community Church
Geert Masse Sculpture Gardens
Gellatly Bay Aquatic Parks Society
Gellatly Nut Farm Society
Generation Two Dance Society
George Pringle Secondary
Girl Guides of Canada – Central Okanagan Division
Glenmore Recreation After School Program
Greater Vancouver Youth for Christ – Okanagan Satellite
Gwynneth Lloyd & Betty Farrally Fund


H.O.S.O.T.O. House (Helping Other Stand on their Own)
Hope for the Nations

Interior Alzheimer Society
International Sculpture Symposium 2002

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Joe Rich Ratepayers and Tenants Society
John Howard Society South Okanagan/Kootenay Region of BC
Jonagold Park Committee
Jubilee 2000 Symposium – Promise & Peril
Junior Achievement of BC

Kalano Club
Kelowna & District Arts Council
Kelowna & District Boys & Girls Club
Kelowna & District Child Care Committee
Kelowna & District Foster Parents Association
Kelowna & District Safety Council
Kelowna & District Share Society
Kelowna & District Society for Community Living
Kelowna & District Society for People in Motion
Kelowna 2000 Seniors Games Society
Kelowna Alternative to Drinking
Kelowna Antique Fire Apparatus Society
Kelowna Aqua Jets Swim Club
Kelowna Art Gallery
Kelowna Ballet Society
Kelowna Canada Day Concerts Society
Kelowna Child Care Society
Kelowna Children’s Fund Society
Kelowna Christian School
Kelowna City Concert Band Society
Kelowna Clearly Canadian Selects
Kelowna Communities in Bloom
Kelowna Community Food Bank Society
Kelowna Community Music School Society
Kelowna Community Resources
Kelowna Connection Soccer Team
Kelowna Coronary Exercise Society
Kelowna Drop-in & Info Centre
Kelowna Family Caregivers Network
Kelowna Family Service Centre Society
Kelowna Food Bank
Kelowna Friends of the Library
Kelowna Fringe Festival
Kelowna General Hospital
Kelowna Geology Committee
Kelowna Gift Giving Roundtable
Kelowna Gospel Mission Society
Kelowna Habitat for Humanity
Kelowna Help Line
Kelowna Homelessness Steering Committee
Kelowna Infant Development
Kelowna International Festival Society
Kelowna Jazz Festival
Kelowna Junior Girls Curling Team
Kelowna Kiai Volleyball Club
Kelowna Mediation Society
Kelowna Minor Lacrosse
Kelowna Museum
Kelowna Music School Society
Kelowna Parent & Child Preschool
Kelowna Philharmonic Festival Society
Kelowna Quick Silver Selects Girls Soccer Team
Kelowna School Concerts Committee
Kelowna School of the Arts Society
Kelowna Senior Secondary School
Kelowna Ski Club
Kelowna South-Central Association of Neighbourhoods
Kelowna Summer Games Society
Kelowna Track & Field Club
Kelowna Veendam Sister City Association
Kelowna Visual and Performing Arts Society
Kelowna Waldorf School
Kelowna Water Colour Guild
Kelowna Women’s Resource Centre
Kelowna Youth Concerts Committee
Kelowna Youth Outreach Care Society
Kelowna Youth Rugby Association
Kelvern Celtic Society
Kidney Foundation
KidSport Kelowna
Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society
Kiwanis Music Festival Society
Kiwanis Summit & Kelowna Club for KLARC
KLO Secondary School


Lake Country Community Complex
Lake Country Heritage & Cultural Society
Lake Country Native Association
Lake Country Soccer Society
Lakeview Heights Community Association
Lakeview Heights Scouts & Beavers
Laurel Packing House Association
Liquid Lightning Swim Club
Living Positive Resource Centre

Meals on Wheels
Miss Kelowna “Lady of the Lake” Society
Mountain Home Ministries
Multicultural Society of Kelowna
Muscular Dystrophy
Myra Canyon Trestle Restoration Society

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Naramata Centre
National Arts Centre
National Federation of the Blind
Navy League of Canada – Kelowna Branch
Neighbourlink Kelowna
New Attitudes
New Hope for Widow/ers and their Families
New Mothers Support Group
New Opportunities for Women Canada Society
Nordic Cross Country Ski Club

Okanagan Community Asthma Network
Okanagan Counseling Group
Okanagan Drum & Bugle Corps
Okanagan Families Society
Okanagan Festival Singers
Okanagan Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Initiatives
Okanagan Film Festival Society
Okanagan Halfway House Society
Okanagan Handelian Society
Okanagan Health Sciences Museum Society
Okanagan Historical Society
Okanagan Humane Society
Okanagan Interior Council of Trails BC
Okanagan Jewish Community Centre
Okanagan Kokanee Gymnastics Club
Okanagan Lifetime Networks Association
Okanagan Mainline Juried Art Show
Okanagan Military Museum Society
Okanagan Mission Community Hall Association
Okanagan Mission Residents (Community Policing Station)
Okanagan Mission Secondary
Okanagan Mission Secondary Band
Okanagan Mission Youth Action Team
Okanagan Montessori Elementary School Society
Okanagan Music Festival for Composers
Okanagan Nature Centre Society
Okanagan Regional Library District
Okanagan Similkameen Health Region – Central Okanagan Community Health Services Home Support
Okanagan Society for Independent Filmmakers
Okanagan Special People Society
Okanagan Steps to Freedom Society
Okanagan Symphony Society
Okanagan University College
Okanagan Valley Pregnancy Care Centre
Okanagan Valley Women’s Field Hockey Association
Okanagan-Thompson International Sculpture Symposium Society
Orchard City Abbeyfield Society
Osteoporosis Society of Canada – BC Division


Pacific Interior Highland Ballet Society
Parent Effectiveness Program
Parents in Crisis Committee
Peachland Boxing Club Society
Peachland Community Arts Council
Peachland Community Health Resource Centre – The Wellness Centre
Peachland Elementary School
Peachland Little Schoolhouse Society
Peachland Pipe Band
Peachland Senior Citizens’ Housing Society
PEPtalk Peer Support Program – BC Schizophrenia Society
Pipes & Drums of Royal Canadian Legion Branch #26 (Kelowna)
Pipes & Drums of Westbank
Ponderosa Spinners, Weavers and Fibreits
Project Literacy Society
Project Rachel – Roman Catholic Diocese of Nelson, BC
Public Legal Education Society

Quilchena Playground at Kettle Valley

R.C.M.P. Appreciation Banquet
Rainbow Centre for Attitudinal Healing
Rainbows for All God’s Children
Regional District of Central Okanagan
Resurrection Recovery Resource Society
Return of the Peregrine Falcon Society
Rotaract Club of Kelowna
Rotary Centre for the Arts
Rotary Club of of Peachland
Royal Canadian Air Cadets
Rutland Business Association
Rutland Citizen Patrol Centre Society
Rutland Junior Secondary School
Rutland Senior Centre Society
Rutland Senior Secondary Stage Band

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S.P.C.A. Kelowna Branch
Salvation Army
School District #23
Scouts Canada Interior Regional Council
Scouts Canada – Central Okanagan District
Seniors Integrated Information & Referral Task Group
Seniors Outreach Services Society
Shetler Park – Regional District
Silver Lake Forest Education Society (previously: BC Forestry Association)
SK8 (Skateboard Park – Winfield)
Society for Community Concern
Society for Learning in Retirement
South Kelowna Community Recreation Society
St. John’s Ambulance
Stardust Theatre
Stride with Pride/KGH Orthopedic Walk
Sunnyside Community Association
Sunshine Theatre Company
Sunview Community Park Fundraising Committee
Sutherland Hills Park Board

The Jazz Requiem
Theatre Kelowna Society
Towards Better Parenting
Trepanier Creek Linear Park


University 2000
University of BC

Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre
Variety Club Development Centre
Viva Musica Society

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Westbank Boys & Girls Club
Westbank Kinsmen Park Recreation
Westbank Lions Community Development
Westbank Museum & Arts & Crafts Society
Westbank Womens Institute
Western Institute for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Westside Health Network
White Sails Chorus
Winfield Community Action Committee
Winfield Memorial Hall Association
Women’s Emergency Shelter Society
Workshop Retreat for Cancer Patients (BC Cancer Agency)

YMCA - YWCA of the Central Okanagan
Young Life of Canada
Young Readers’ Choice Awards Society of BC
Youth Explosion Strategies
Youth Symphony of Okanagan Society


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