| COF Spring 2018 Project Grant Recipients | |||
| Organization | Project Name | Description | Amount Awarded |
| BC Poverty Reduction Coalition Community Action Network | Leadership Development for People in Poverty | This program will support 10-15 individuals to participate in five workshops over four months. The workshops will connect personal experiences of poverty to structural issues and equip participants with confidence, skills and ongoing support to become self-advocates. | $14,998.37 |
| Canucks Place Children's Hospice Society | Okanagan Fall Camp Program | This grant allows Canucks Place to offer Central Okanagan families the opportunity to participate in three days of daytime and overnight camp activities at the accessible, barrier free Agur Lake Camp Society. | $13,800 |
| Kelowna Community Resources | Wise & Well | Wise & Well project will support isolated and at-risk Immigrant seniors who otherwise would not be eligible for settlement programming under existing federal and provincial government funding. | $7,365 |
| Lower Mainland Down Syndrome Society (LMDSS) | Okanagan Parent Networking Group | The grant will be used exclusively to support Okanagan activities for individuals with Down Syndrome and their families. | $1,000 |
| Okanagan Immigrant Collective Society (OIC) | The Multi-cultural Hub Homework Club | The Homework Club will create a safer space for immigrant children to gain academic and social support for their school life and also offer a parent support group and workshops catered to parents’ needs. | $13,464 |
| Okanagan Regional Library | American Sign Language Storytimes | The goal of this project is to provide monthly story times in both American Sign Language and English. | $7,400 |
| Peachland Seniors' Support Society | Community Amenity Space - Furnishings | The grant funds will go towards furnishings for the indoor, multi-use and publicly accessible amenity space of a new 74-unit seniors’ affordable housing project. | $14,551.07 |
| The Okanagan Festival Singers | Children's Messiah Concert | On Nov. 24, 2018, at 2pm, the OFS will present a Children’s Messiah Concert at First Lutheran Church. The better known excerpts from the repertoire will be sung by the choir with piano accompaniment. | $5,000 |
| Theatre Kelowna Society | A Taste of Fringe | “A Taste of Fringe” is a launch event showcasing past Fringe Festival favourites and award winners as mainstage performances at the Mary Irwin Theatre in Kelowna. | $15,000 |
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| COF Spring 2018 Year 1 Multiyear Grants | |||
| Organization | Description | Amount Awarded | |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Society of British Columbia | The equipment loan program supports people living with ALS by providing the required equipment at any stage of their disease at no cost. | $15,000 | |
| Athletics for Kids Financial Assistance (BC) Society | Each eligible child may receive up to $600 per year. | $30,000 | |
| British Columbia Schizophrenia Society - Kelowna | Participants in the course learn about proper mental health diagnoses, which have demonstrated to significantly improve their outcome. They also learn about what mental health treatments work best for themselves and their peers. | $45,000 | |
| Cerebral Palsy Association of BC | This grant will support programming for Adapted Yoga for youth with cerebral palsy and other disabilities; as well as Dance Without Limits program. | $18,000 | |
| Elevation Outdoors Experiential Programs Association | The 3 year funding will e used to hire a part-time program coordinator. | $45,000 | |
| Freedom's Door | This multi-year grant will make it possible for us to create a new program expanding the number of participation days from 90-days to 180-days. | $45,000 | |
| Hope Air | Hope Air will meet the need for approximately 175 free flights for those patients from the Central Okanagan who need to access critical medical. | $45,000 | |
| Junior Achievement of BC | This grant will support the delivery of education programs in financial literacy, work-readiness and entrepreneurship in collaboration with educators and volunteers, benefitting a minimum of 2,500 youth in 100 classes in the catchment area of School District 23 annually. | $45,000 | |
| New Vintage Theatre Society | This grant is to support their mainstage productions in the fall, winter and spring. | $45,000 | |
| Okanagan Central Small Dog Rescue Society (OSDR) | This grant will be used to supplement operating funds to ensure that seniors, and low income individuals or families, will be able to have their dogs spayed or neutered. | $12,000 | |
| Okanagan Humane Society | Funds will be used to pay for the costs of having free-roaming cats Cats are spayed or neutered, vaccinated and permanently identified with tattoo or microchip. | $45,000 | |
| Seniors Outreach Services Society | The funding will assist the increase of the Information and Referral and Crisis Counselling and Income Tax preparation programs. | $45,000 | |