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• CFC Chair brings Smart & Caring message to Huronia

  

  Posted 7 months ago.

  Terry Jackson had a lot to share with the Huronia Community Foundation. The Chair of Community Foundations of Canada’s Board of Directors recently addressed the foundation’s Annual...

  Year: 2012
  Province: Ontario

• Benjamin Moore program furthers work in Hamilton neighbourhood

  

  Posted 11 months ago.

  By Sharon Charters On May 31st, representatives from CFC, the Hamilton Community Foundation and Benjamin Moore had the opportunity to visit the Beasley Community Centre in the heart of downtown...

  Province: Ontario

• Donor makes indelible mark on York Region environment

  

  Posted 1 year ago.

  By Rosemary Park Thousands of years ago, glaciers retreating in the York Region area left behind the Oak Ridges Moraine, and major headwaters flowing south to Lake Ontario, or north to Lake...

  Province: Ontario

• Burlington volunteers: the superheroes of our great community

  

  Posted 1 year ago.

  By Colleen Mulholland With the recent marking of National Volunteer Week, I've been thinking a lot about how giving comes in many shapes and forms. So often, people who volunteer for their...

  Province: Ontario

• Fund honours dynamic couple, ensures food for Kingston school children

  

  Posted 1 year ago.

  By Skana Gee They were a well-known and much-loved couple in Kingston: Larger-than-life Zalman (Zal) Yanovsky, former lead guitarist and singer for the rock band Lovin' Spoonful, and his "anchor"...

  Province: Ontario

• Vital Signs reveals 16 per cent of Kingston residents living below poverty line

  

  Posted 1 year ago.

  By Vikram Varma Kingston & Area's 2011 Vital Signs talked about the working poor, revealing that more than one in 10 of the people using food banks have a job. The Kingston Community Roundtable...

  Province: Ontario

• $1.6-million gift boosts future of local hospice, via Niagara Community Foundation

  Posted 1 year ago.

  Thanks to the generosity of Patrick and Nancy McNally, the financial future of McNally House looks brighter. The McNally's have donated $1.6 million to establish two endowment funds that will...

  Province: Ontario

• Langar Project brings communal kitchen concept to South Asian seniors in Mississauga

  

  Posted 1 year ago.

  By Skana Gee Traditional meal-delivery programs don't necessarily cut the mustard as the make-up of communities evolves to be more ethnically diverse. For instance, The Greater Toronto Area's South...

  Province: Ontario