Community Granting

One of our top priorities as a community foundation is to provide financial support to our community. This can take a number of forms. Most of the time community granting is funds that goes directly to organizations that are doing the work to improve the lives of those within our community. Typically, this happens as a community foundation receives donations and builds its endowment or directed funds, one example of this is the Care 4 Cortes fund where the moneys donated go directly to granting.  As a community foundation we also have access to one-time larger funds that come from organizations such as the Community Foundations of Canada or the Canadian Government. In 2023, we were able to disperse approximately $160,000 back into the Cortes Island community through the Recovery Fund and Fund for Gender Equality.

We are particularly proud of our diverse and transparent community jury process. These juries bring their own experience and wisdom and use a scoring matrix relevant to each individual grant to help determine how the funding should be dispersed throughout our community.