As we continue to celebrate Canada's 150th year, we will be sharing stories of the local initiatives we funded through the Canada 150 Fund, a collaboration between COF, Community Foundations of Canada, the Government of Canada, and extraordinary leaders from coast to coast. Our second Canada 150 Fund feature is on the Lake Country Public Art Gallery and the Lake Country Public Art Commission. Stay tuned throughout the summer for more Canada 150 stories in the Kelowna Capital News!

Our fifth and final Central Okanagan Foundation Volunteer Spirit Scholarship feature is on Wyatt Slattery. Thanks to the Kelowna Capital News for highlighting our 5 scholarship recipients. Watch for the next round of applications early in 2018!

Check out our fourth Central Okanagan Foundation Volunteer Spirit Scholarship feature on Justice Neyedli!

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Check out our third Central Okanagan Foundation Volunteer Spirit Scholarship feature on Serena Slonowski!

Our second Volunteer Spirit Scholarship recipient feature with the Kelowna Capital News is on Anne-Sophie Beaudoin. Learn more about her story below!

We are pleased to be working with Kelowna Capital News to feature each of our 5 Central Okanagan Foundation Volunteer Spirit Scholarship recipients. Watch between now and July 14th for a story on each of these great young people doing amazing things in our communities across the Central Okanagan. Check out the first feature on Awantika Mittal!

Today we got to meet up in beautiful downtown Kelowna with students and faculty from UBC Okanagan who were given Youth Initiative Grant funding for two projects, the One Button Chap Book Press and the Student Okanagan Film Festival! Thanks to United Way of the Central and South Okanagan / Similkameen and GenNext Kelowna who work with COFFY - Central Okanagan Foundation for Youth to make these grants possible!

Central Okanagan Foundation is celebrating Canada's 150th Birthday! We have funded an array of local initiatives through the Canada 150 Fund, a collaboration between COF, Community Foundations of Canada, the Government of Canada, and extraordinary leaders from coast to coast. Learn more about one of the projects we funded, the 150 for 150 Challenge through KCR - Community Services, and watch the Kelowna Capital News for more stories featuring these celebratory projects!

Thank you to everyone who attended our Annual Spring Event at The Harvest Golf Club last night! It was a beautiful evening filled with delicious food, wine, and conversations. Not to mention incredible gelato from Artisto Gelato!! We were thrilled to announce the 5 recipients of our inaugural Central Okanagan Foundation Volunteer Spirit Scholarship, pictured here thanks to the Kelowna Capital News.

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Congratulations to Kelowna's Gospel Mission for receiving the Central Okanagan Foundation Volunteer Organization of the Year award at this years City of Kelowna Community Civic Awards! We are pleased to sponsor this award and recognize outstanding volunteer organizations in our community.

Central Okanagan Foundation is proud to support Foundry Kelowna in partnership with Canadian Mental Health Association, Kelowna and KGH Foundation.

COF is hiring! If you are interested in community engaged research, check out this posting for Vital Signs Coordinator Vital Signs is a national program led by local community foundations and coordinated by Community Foundations of Canada that leverages local knowledge to measure the vitality of our communities and support action towards improving our collective quality of life through a combination of scientific research and public opinion. https://classifieds.castanet.net/details/vital_signs_coordintator/3017110