Fall grants from Community Foundation for Kingston and Area

Dec 13, 2023

The Community Foundation for Kingston and Area (CFKA) has included some small grants for Frontenac County organisations in their fall grant announcement this year.

A total of $181,128 has been handed out to support 17 different community service organisations.

New Leaf Link is one of them.

The South Frontenac based organisation fo developmentally disables adults, which runs its programs out of the Harrowsmith Free Methodist Church, received $6,268 in funding under the Recovery and Rebuilding stream.

According to a CFKA media release, the “funding will allow them to retain a Developmental Program Manager to help them recover from the pandemic. This key person will focus on an outreach, marketing and recruitment program with the goal of a 50% increase in participants. They will also seek out new and exciting fundraising opportunities, donors, and potential corporate sponsors, helping NeLL to attain their goal of financial sustainability.”

Wintergreen Studios, located on Canoe Lake Road in South Frontenac, has been granted $1,000 to support the Land Art Bio-blitz that they have been running for several years. Children and families are invited “free of charge, to visit the land and learn about the plants, animals, and fungi of the Frontenac Arch Biosphere. The programming is multigenerational, attracting participants from school-aged children to seniors. Looking ahead to 2024, and its 10th anniversary, LABB will expand to become a year-long multi-seasonal offering: Four Seasons of LABB. This suite of year-long programming will invite visitors to explore the incredible species and living organisms that call the Frontenac Arch Biosphere home through Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn.”

Among the other projects that were announced this week, was a $16,000 donation in support of the Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington Public Health (KFLAPH) Dental Treatment Assistance Fund which provides $400 toward emergency medical treatment throughout the region.

And a grant of $3420 went to the Rideau Waterway Land Trust to support a Conservation Co-Op student in the coming spring/summer season.

The annual Fall funding commitment from the CFKA makes use of the revenues generated from a $25.7 fund that has been built up over time. A team of 16 community-based reviews all grant applications and determines how to best dole out the available funds based on a granting focus on Arts and Culture,  Children’s Mental Health, Community Development, Education & Literacy, Environment, Health & Social Services, Heritage Preservation, Recreation, and Youth.