Vital Focus on Housing Report Released

The report aims to prompt conversation and broaden awareness around issues that our community is facing related to housing.

Vital Focus on Housing Report Launch
 

Community Foundation Grey Bruce

Community Foundation Grey Bruce enhances community vitality by fostering open discussion about local need, sharing knowledge, and growing endowments to provide strategic granting and support to a wide range of non-profit organizations.

Our vision is that everyone in Grey Bruce benefits from a vital, healthy, and resilient community.

What's Happening

Participants of the event sit on the Salvation Army amphitheater listening to Jennifer from the Community Foundation
On The Road Again: Wiarton
Aug. 18, 2022: The final On The Road Again event was hosted by Community Foundation Grey Bruce at the Wiarton Propeller Club. Attendees joined from across the Peninsula to share about their projects and events.
Kids Can Play Bruce Grey is now accepting applications.
Fall Grant applications are open now!
Aug. 16, 2022: #KidsCanPlayGreyBruce Grants are being offered this year to support Grey Bruce organizations that provide recreation programs to youth. Fall Community Grants are also receiving applications. The deadline to apply is September 15.

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Nature is Nurture
Your community foundation supports many local environmental projects that build a healthy and resilient community for all. Consider a donation today, to preserve and protect our natural bounty and to connect more people with the healing power of nature.
Thought of the day
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." ~ Mahatma Gandhi, Indian philosopher & advocate, 1869-1948
Community Foundation Grey Bruce at Neyaashiinigmiing to present grants to Habitat for Humanity for energy efficient appliances & a defibrillator, Canadian Feed the Children Cape Croker school food pro

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Whether small or large, your gift can make a big impact because it is added to the Foundation's investment pool which provides income that is regularly distributed as grants to nonprofit organizations across Grey & Bruce Counties.
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Walkerton Action Committee's project ensured people with physical challenges can still garden! Ecoraster grid on the ground lets wheelchairs or wheeled walkers access the raised beds easily

Grants

Community Foundation Grey Bruce provides grants and scholarships each year to not-for-profit charitable, educational, cultural, recreational and environmental organizations in an effor to enrich the quality of life for people of the area.
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Local students wrote letters of support for people living with mental illness in housing programs through CMHA's Good Deeds project that were hand delivered as part of The Heart Project kits.
Local students wrote letters of support for people living with mental illness in housing programs through CMHA's Good Deeds project that were hand delivered as part of The Heart Project kits.

Stories

GRANTS IN ACTION: The Heart Project Spreads Love
A great road trip to spread love wound through Grey Bruce on Thanksgiving Monday thanks to a 2021 community grant to CMHA (Canadian Mental Health Association) Grey Bruce, together with community champion Mary Sundermeier.
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Learn about the impact of housing in Grey Bruce

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This Vital Focus on Youth Report digs deeper into the "issue clusters" that Grey Bruce youth brought forward in our Vital Conversations.

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Read about what the Community Foundation Grey Bruce has done in 2021.

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This report contains important data on six topics related to life in Grey Bruce: health & wellness, the environment, living standards, arts & culture, education & lifelong learning, and community connections.