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

Kelly Graham Legacy Award Grants Locally
Grants Promote Wellbeing Programs for Young Women
Jun. 28, 2022: Kelly Graham Legacy Award, that promotes health and wellbeing programs for young women in Grey Bruce, granted to three local organizations offering programming to advance the health and wellbeing of local young women this summer.
Vital Focus on Housing Report Launch
Vital Focus on Housing Report Released
May 17, 2022: Community Foundation Grey Bruce has released its Vital Focus on Housing Report online.

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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 for the day
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." ~ Henry David Thoreau, American author & philosopher, 1817 - 1862
Dundalk Team Town Hall received a grant to complete a feasibility study on costs to re-open a revitalized theatre at our Olde Town Hall in Dundalk for community arts and culture.

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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.