Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta. (Lethbridge News Now)

By David Opinko

$770,000 in COVID-19 relief funds given to 40 local non-profits

Sep 28, 2020 | 1:08 PM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – Dozens of charities in the region will share local, provincial, and federal grants.

The Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta received just over $770,000 from the Government of Canada’s Emergency Community Support Fund (ECSF) and the Government of Alberta’s Charitable Donation Matching Program while utilizing some of their own donations.

Grants were distributed to local non-profits by the Community Foundation.

“It has been an extraordinary time at the Community Foundation,” said Executive Director Charleen Davidson. “We’ve really seen the best in our community as people came together to support one another through this pandemic. All of us at the Community Foundation feel incredibly privileged to be able to facilitate these contributions into Southwestern Alberta to help maintain a healthy, vibrant, and inclusive community.”

The full list of grant recipients are as follows:

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COVID-19 Response and Recovery Grants Program (Funded by the Community Foundation and various donors)

• Blood Tribe Administration: Blood Tribe Recreation and Parks, $15,000
• Bridges of Hope: Blue Rein Ranch, $9,300
• Good Samaritan Society: Prairie Ridge, $13,229
• Green Acres Foundation: Golden Acres, $9,842
• Interfaith Food Bank Society of Lethbridge, $3,500
• Kidney Foundation of Canada: Southern Alberta, $10,000
• Lethbridge Food Bank Society, $10,000
• Safe Haven Women’s Shelter, $18,481
• Streets Alive Mission, $2,550
• University of Lethbridge Food Bank, $10,000

Government of Alberta’s Charitable Donation Matching Program (Funded by the Government of Alberta and various donors)

• Blackfoot Family Lodge Society, $24,300
• Kainai Food Bank Society and the Blood Tribe FCSS, $30,000
• Napi Friendship Association, $16,566
• Pincher Creek Foundation, Crestview Lodge, $4,565
• Shinah House Foundation, $23,400
• Taber Special Needs Society and the Taber and District Handi-Bus Association, $2,320
• Southern Alberta Self-Help Association, $33,264
• Willow Creek Foundation, $20,000

Emergency Community Support Fund (Funded by the Government of Canada)

• Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge, $2,000
• Blood Tribe Administration, $23,000
• Boys and Girls Club of the Foothills, $51,820
• Canadian Bhutanese Society, $20,000
• Canadian Cancer Society, $10,000
• Chinook Sexual Assault Centre, $4,500
• Family Centre Society of Lethbridge and District, $9,713
• Foothills Detox Centre, $25,800
• KidSport, Lethbridge and Taber, $35,000
• Lethbridge College, $12,500
• Lethbridge John Howard Society, $10,530
• Opokaa’sin Early Intervention Society, $75,000
• Southern Alberta Ethnic Association, $35,000
• South Country Treatment Centre, $40,000
• Starlight Children’s Foundation, $8,120
• Taber and District Housing Foundation, $18,000
• Town of Fort Macleod, $17,704
• Volunteer Lethbridge Association, $17,028
• Vulcan County, $17,000
• Wandering Willows Fundraising Society, $1,700 (partially funded by the Government of Alberta)
• YMCA of Lethbridge, $15,000
• YWCA Lethbridge and District, $65,000