The West Vancouver Community Foundation awarded $103,315 in 2014 community grants at an event at the West Vancouver Seniors' Activity Centre last month.
Grants were given to organizations in the fields of health, education, youth, seniors, the arts, social services and the environment. The foundation awarded more than $94,000 to 31 nonprofit organizations for the annual grant cycle.
The activity centre was one of the many grant recipients, receiving funding for the seniors' activity bus from Mayor Michael Smith's annual donation of his raise.
Among the other award recipients were the Ferry Building Gallery, to support the feature exhibition A Celebration of Creativity on creativity and dementia from July 3 to 27; the Harmony Arts Festival, to support operations and sponsor the main stage at John Lawson Park; and the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation, to help cover the cost of a new CT scanner for the hospital.
The West Vancouver Community Foundation, founded in 1979, is a non-government, nonprofit foundation that assists individuals, families, corporations, and nonprofit organizations to make donations in perpetuity to the community.
The foundation uses gifts and donations to establish permanent, income-earning endowment funds that are used to meet and respond to evolving community needs.
For more information on the foundation, visit westvanfoundation.com.
