FOR GOOD, FOREVER
Your vision for our community
downtown? A place where all children ar- rive at school well-fed and ready to learn? Safer neighbourhoods? A community
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everyone has an equal chance to realize their education and employ- ment dreams?
As much as we love this city we call home, we all see opportunities for improvement. The Winnipeg Foundation regularly makes grants for a wide variety of
hat are your great hopes for our community? Would you like to see a more vibrant
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charitable projects that help realize our vision of “a Winnipeg where commu- nity life flourishes.”
We’re able to provide this support
thanks to donors, people from all walks of life who have chosen to make change in our city by giving what they are able. Each of these donors has a unique, per- sonal hope for our community and rea- son for giving. We work closely with them to help realize their goals. Over the past 92 years, these donors
have established and grown the more than 2,500 endowment funds that make up our Foundation and provide a per- manent source of support to communi- ty agencies doing good work in our city. Thanks to their generous gifts, we were able to support almost 800 charitable projects last year, with grants totalling $21.2 million.
You might think only wealthy people establish funds at the Foundation, but the reality is that many individuals and families of modest means choose to give through our organization. As a com- munity foundation, it’s important to us that we are accessible to all. That means providing grants across a wide spectrum of charitable organizations and it means making sure that everyone has the op- portunity to lend support.
So, we offer a variety of giving op- tions to donors. Donors choose when to make a gift (today or tomorrow through a bequest, gift of life insurance or retire-
ment assets), what to give (cash, appre- ciated property, publically traded securi- ties) and how their gift will be used in the community (we offer a range of fund types). Is there a particular local charity close to your heart that you’d like to support forever? You can establish a Designated Fund to help ensure it continues to ben- efit our community. Are you passionate about safeguarding the environment, preserving local heritage treasures or supporting Winnipeg’s colourful arts community? You can start a Field of In- terest Fund to benefit the
areas that are important to you. Are there so many great causes that
you want to support them all? You can start a Community Building Fund that benefits the full range of community organizations supported by the Founda- tion.
Do you want to help promising stu-
dents access higher education? You can start a Scholarship Fund and determine criteria for award winners.
Do you want to be involved in how granting decisions are made? You can establish a Donor Advised Fund. Do you want to help ensure future generations of Winnipeg kids have enough to eat, build literacy skills and have the opportunity of post-secondary education? You can make a gift to an ex- isting fund, such as Nourishing Poten- tial, Literacy for Life or the You Can Do It Awards. Every gift, no matter the
size, is
worthwhile and makes a difference. I invite you to join the community of do- nors who are shaping the future of our city.
You can make a secure, online gift through our website at www.wpgfdn. org, call our office at 204-944-9474 (toll free 1-877-974-3631), or send a cheque to The Winnipeg Foundation at 1350-One Lombard Place, Winnipeg MB, R3B 0X3.
Rick Frost is CEO of the Winnipeg Foundation.
Here's to a taste of elegant living!
local people, with some driving in from across the province. For them, the main floor, casual family-style res- taurant will do just fine and it stays. It has a fully licenced lounge, and a nice big patio overlooking the lake. Of course, recreation facilities – many of them tailored to families— are also central to the resort’s offering. Waiting outdoors is a family water park with a three-storey water slide and a pool area with a hot tub. Inside is an impressive adult spa, with a mineral pool, a hydro kinetic pool, and a whirlpool. The whirlpool has a gravel bottom with air jets un- derneath that offer guests the inter- esting experience of having their feet massaged as they walk. Another inter- esting experience – certainly a chilling one – begins in the spa’s steam room with its hot tub and is highlighted by a followed-up plunge into a roughly zero-degrees pool. Guests, it’s prom- ised, will feel rejuvenated.
Then there’s the prestigious Hecla golf course, widely known as one of Manitoba’s best. In a normal year, the championship 18-hole course, a ma- jor Hecla attraction would be open by now. It brings in many a visitor for an
over-night stay or two.
Weekends, families coming to enjoy the pools will also set off on one of the many hiking trails, play volleyball on the small provincial beach nearby, or check out other amenities of Hecla Island provincial park: renting a kay- ak, fishing equipment or a bike, or in winter cross-country skis perhaps or snowshoes.
The hotel has 90 rooms, and nine meeting rooms for the conferences that are so basic to its operations. The conference rooms accommodate eight to 300 people and are popular for corporate retreats. Groups gather- ing for a couple of days get to enjoy a change of scene for meetings or some special team building exercises – and of course some especially appreciated hikes and recreation.
Lakeside Hecla will be open now through to the launch of new year, 2014. The three months following are traditionally Hecla’s slow period, and management plans to wait and see how business develops before committing to staying open or clos- ing. With their new family-affordable mix of offerings, they may have some difficulty getting away.
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