Grants Awarded

Yorkton & District Community Foundation is pleased to have partnered with Community Foundations of Canada and the Government of Canada to deliver the Government of Canada’s Emergency Community Support Fund (ECSF) in Yorkton and surrounding communities.

Through the ECSF,  $75,000  was  made  available  to  assist  local charities and qualified donees supporting populations experiencing heightened vulnerability during this crisis. We are pleased to announce that the  following grants  have  been  awarded.  

• $18,750 was invested to help  Saskatchewan Abilities Council Inc.  -  Yorkton to  purchase  technology for continued personal development and community connection virtually, augmenting in-person programming during COVID-19.
• $5,730  was granted  to  SIGN  (Society  for  the  Involvement  of  Good  Neighbours)  This project provides delivery of food and family resources to vulnerable families, as well as much needed transportation to seniors in our community.
• $15,000  was  invested  for Rail  City  Industries  in  Melville  to  purchase  technology  to  help provide services to vulnerable persons in isolation and connection for participants with their families, friends and for online learning.
• $21,000 was granted to Boys & Girls Club of Yorkton, Inc. to the BGCY at Home  program which provides children, youth and families with quality, engaging, productive program activities and opportunities to participate from the safety of their homes. 
• $6,538 was invested for the SIGN Kamsack Family Resource Centre to  provide Kamsack and area families, with children pre-natal to age 5, with  materials, resources, and education necessary to help the families stay safe, healthy, and mentally well during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• $7,982 was granted to the Parkland College for mental health and tutorial support of post-secondary students attending fall and winter sessions and who were impacted by the pandemic, examples being students whose grade 12 courses may have been disrupted and persons retraining following disruption of employment.

The ECSF funds are now fully dispersed and the Yorkton & District Community Foundations thanks these charitable organziations for the work they are doing to assist our community during the pandemic. 

More applications were received than could be funded.  If you would like to help support local sharities and the good work they are doing in our community during the pandemic, please consider donating to the Yorkton & District Emergency Fund. 

Click  here  to  access  the  list  of  Community  Foundations in  Canada  that are still  accepting applications.