UFA Rural Communities offer $100K in grant funding
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For the third year in a row, the UFA Rural Communities Foundation is offering a $100,000 grant to projects submitted from all over rural Alberta.
Harvey Hagman, chair of the United Farmers Community Foundation and member of the board of the UFA, explains the grant.
“Two years ago we announced that we would commit $500,000 over five years to the rural communities so we’re in the third year of that.”
The money in the grant comes from United Farmers equity holders that “we’ve either lost or they’re passed on and they left some equity with the organization and so we decided to do something positive with it,” said Hagman. “We’re trying to do something positive for rural Alberta.”
Canadians should consider place-based giving, or donating 'at home,' through local community foundations that are well-positioned to navigate and bolster the post-pandemic recovery.