The Battle River Community Foundation recently awarded a $10,000 grant to the Camrose Womens’ Shelter Society to support the Society’s therapy program for outreach clients. Battle River Community Foundation Secretary Stephen Kambeitz presents the cheque to Nora-Lee Rear, Executive Director of the Womens’ Shelter Society.
The grant is from income from the Jack and Lily Kirschmann Fund, established to support programs providing services to victims of family violence in the region, and by the Dennis and Doris Ofrim Fund and the Beverly (Pearson) Penner and Don W Penner Fund, both established to support programs in Camrose. Additional funding came from the Foundation’s Community Funds.
The Battle River Community Foundation exists to support organizations like the Camrose Womens’ Shelter Society in East Central Alberta, which benefit local communities and have a positive impact on the future.
Grants from the Battle River Community Foundation are primarily made possible through the generosity of individual donors and organizations that have created endowment funds. The principal of these endowment funds are kept intact and the income is made available annually to support local projects and organizations.
Since it was founded in 1995, the Battle River Community Foundation has granted over $7,900,000 to support charitable activities in the Battle River Region.