{"id":36654,"date":"2021-02-02T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=36654"},"modified":"2021-02-02T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T21:54:10","slug":"co-op-community-spaces-accepting-online-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2021\/02\/02\/co-op-community-spaces-accepting-online-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-op Community Spaces Accepting Online Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/coop.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Co-op\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/coop.gif 300w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/coop-228x171.gif 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Co-op Media Release |<\/p>\n<p>For years, Co-op has been creating places for Western Canadians. <\/p>\n<p>This year as we\u2019ve been staying safe by staying apart, Co-ops continue to invest in spaces for when we can safely come back together.<\/p>\n<p><\/br>Co-op Community Spaces was launched in 2015 to help protect, beautify and improve spaces across Western Canada. Since then, it has provided $9.5 million to 132 projects that improve the social, economic and environmental wellbeing of local communities. Entering its seventh year, the program is dedicating $1 million in funding and is accepting applications for capital projects that will improve spaces across Western Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLocally, Swan Valley Co-op is proud to support organizations and projects that make a difference to our members and our community,\u201d said Colin Peters, General Manager of Swan Valley Co-op. \u201cFinding ways to support our community is even more important as we\u2019ve been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We\u2019re looking forward to a time when we\u2019ll all be able to gather as a community again and we encourage all of our community organizations who could benefit from capital funding to apply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Capital funding between $25,000 and $150,000 per project is available. Co-op invites registered non-profit organizations, registered charities or community service co-operatives to apply online between February 1 and March 1, 2021. Program funding categories include recreation, environmental conservation and urban agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Federated Co-operatives Limited administers the giving program on behalf of more than 160 independent local co-ops across Western Canada that form the Co-operative Retailing System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-op Media Release | For years, Co-op has been creating places for Western Canadians. This year as we\u2019ve been staying safe by staying apart, Co-ops continue to invest in spaces for when we can safely come back together. Co-op Community Spaces was launched in 2015 to help protect, beautify and improve spaces across Western Canada. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-36654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}