A Community Woven Together. Serving Barrie, Angus and Area
You are invited to our Annual General Meeting with special presentations of funds to our Community Partners.
4:00 pm September 18, 2018
The Knights of Columbus
93 Berczy Street
Barrie, ON
L4M 3R2
Light Refreshments
For more information or to reserve your spot,
please contact Doug Shaw at dshaw@baysidefinancial.on.ca.
The Barrie Community Foundation is excited to announce the addition of our newest Board Member, Amanda Whitman. For more information about Amanda and her involvement within the Barrie Community Foundation, please visit our Board of Directors page at https://www.barriecommunityfoundation.org/about-bcf/board-of-directors/.
The Barrie Community Foundation is a locally–run public foundation that builds and manages endowment funds to support charitable activities in the area. The funds that are raised in the community stay in the community.
The Barrie Community Foundation pools the charitable gifts of many donors to create permanent, income–earning endowment funds – a nest egg that will always be there to benefit the communities. A donation, large or small, will make a difference, now and forever.
The Barrie Community Foundation uses the income earned by invested funds to give grants to a wide range of community groups; the original investment is left to grow over time. Only the earnings are used for particular charitable programs that the donor is interested in supporting i.e. seniors, youth, low-income, recreation, health, environment, art, and music. Donors can choose to support their hometown broadly or designate a favourite cause.
The Community Foundations of Canada is an association of the 191 community foundations scattered across our magnificent country.
They have a few words to say about communities.
Inclusive. Forward-looking. Fair. Creative. Safe. Green. Fun.
There’s no end of words to describe what we want our communities and country to be.
But there’s one word that sums it all up.
Vital.
The vitality of our communities, or community vitality, is something community foundations care about a great deal.
Community vitality is the unique spirit that flourishes when people believe their community holds possibilities for everyone.
Vitality can be measured by how well people’s needs are being met: from our most basic needs—sustenance, shelter, health care, safety—to those that give quality to life, such as places and opportunities to play, learn and create.
Our Vision for Communities
All signs point to stronger communities. To us, the best sign for Canada’s communities—our vision for them—is that they are strong and getting stronger. What would this mean?
In our vision, our communities are ready to address pressing problems like poverty, unemployment, hunger and housing. And all citizens are able to benefit from the best a community can offer: the arts, recreation, health care, education, safe and inclusive neighbourhoods and a healthy environment.
Your local community foundation is the Barrie Community Foundation.
We are vital. We believe that the people of Barrie fulfill all of the attributes of a “vital community.”
Surprised that there are 191 community foundations across Canada? Don’t be, because the list is growing. From big cities to very small towns and villages, community foundations fulfill an important place in the charitable giving web.
The Barrie Community Foundation exists to support other charities whose work helps make Barrie a better place to live … it is a charity for charities. The Foundation funds initiatives from a broad spectrum of interests including arts and culture, education, recreation, social services and the environment.
Barrie and area
To help create a better community for us all
Today ─ Tomorrow ─ Forever.
To enhance the quality of our lives by enabling all of us, individual and corporate citizens, to give back to our community by building permanent legacies
To generate in excess of four million in endowments over time that will enable us to make grants of more than $200,000 per year.
Donors may create or contribute to any of the following funds.
A donation to this fund gives the Foundation the greatest flexibility. The earnings on this fund enable our Board of Directors to respond to current community needs through the awarding of grants to charities throughout Barrie.
Donors identify an area of interest that they would like their donation to support. Examples include the arts, environment, health, seniors, children, recreation, relief of poverty, or education.
This type of fund gives the donor the opportunity to specify, at the time the fund is established, which particular charity or charities they would like to support in perpetuity.
The donor, donor’s family, or designates recommend annually to the Board of Directors which Barrie charitable organizations should receive the income.
A donor may choose to provide direct support. The administrative fund is used to offset operating costs.
For further information, please contact us
