April 21, 2020: Oakville, Ontario: Oakville ‘Community Hero’ Turns Donor with a $200,000 Personal Pledge & Challenge To Our Community A local Oakville Family Physician wants to Inspire and Challenge others with her personal pledge of $200,000 in support of Food Relief efforts, a gift made to the Oakville Resiliency Fund. But she doesn’t want […]
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Private Family Foundations Partner with Oakville Community Foundation To Support Resiliency Fund and Priority Needs
Our focus on Community Heroes in Phase 1 of the Oakville Community Foundation’s Resiliency Fund has allowed some wonderful new partnerships to form – partners who are also focused on funding front-line organizations supporting the most vulnerable in our community. A number of Private Foundations have invested in the Oakville Resiliency Fund: the Kindred Foundation, […]
Oakville Community Foundation Announces First Round of Grants from Oakville Resiliency Fund Phase I – Supporting our Community Heroes
April 8, 2020: Oakville, Ontario: Oakville Community Foundation Announces First Round of Grants from Oakville Resiliency Fund Phase I – Supporting our Community Heroes The Oakville Community Foundation has created the Oakville Resiliency Fund to support our local community during this State of Emergency and beyond when it is time to help our charitable sector […]
Leading Together – Halton Region Charity Support by your Local Community Foundations
March 31, 2020: Leading together – the Burlington Foundation, Community Foundation of Halton North and Oakville Community Foundation are working together to collaborate, share information on pressing needs, and ensure that our collective knowledge drives strategic funding to those agencies on the frontlines of COVID-19 response across Halton Region. At this unprecedented time when community […]
Community Building at a time of Social Distancing
Dear Community Foundation Fundholders, Agencies, Charity Partners and Volunteers Like many of us I find myself in a different situation than I thought I would be earlier this week. I was looking forward to a week of skiing during spring break with my family and friends. Now like other businesses and organizations, we are focused […]
Fun Ways to Stay Connected to Our Community
Oakville Community Foundation March 25, 2020 Many of us are used to being out and about in the community. On any given day we’re going out to local restaurants, stores, parks and trails. In this time of increased physical isolation – as a way to take part in social distancing – it’s difficult not to […]
