{"id":36812,"date":"2021-06-08T07:51:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T12:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=36812"},"modified":"2021-06-13T13:57:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T18:57:09","slug":"cfsv-spring-grants-awarded-cespite-covid-19-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2021\/06\/08\/cfsv-spring-grants-awarded-cespite-covid-19-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"CFSV Spring Grants Awarded Despite COVID-19 Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Community Foundation of Swan Valley (CFSV) normally holds a spring granting evening this time of year. With COVID-19 restrictions still limiting public gatherings, the group held a \u2018drive-up\u2019 event to showcase the wonderful projects either happening or planned for the Swan Valley. The event was not open to the public but rather the grant recipients from fall 2020 and spring 2021 attended an outdoor time slot for a photo opportunity with Directors from the CFSV Board.<\/p>\n

All in attendance gave thanks to the CFSV for their support to a variety of local projects. In total $46,500 in new grants for spring 2021 were handed out. To date, the foundation has awarded just over $949,000 back to the community in just over 16.5 years of giving.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s spring grant recipients are:
\n\u2022 Taylor School (SVSD): Self-regulation Room – $1,500;
\n\u2022 RM of Mountain: Mafeking Outdoor rink construction – $2,000;
\n\u2022 Swan Valley Minor Hockey: Jersey Purchase – $2,000;
\n\u2022 Baseball Legacy Committee: baseball concession\/storage facility – $7,500;
\n\u2022 Minitonas First Baptist Housing Corp.: window replacement – $1,000;
\n\u2022 Bowsman School (SVSD): adjustable basketball nets – $3,000;
\n\u2022 Multi-year grant to the Thunder Hill Ski Club
\n– $20,000\/year for five years for a potential total of $100,000;
\n\u2022 Benito Legion Ladies Auxiliary: washroom accessibility upgrades – $1,000;
\n\u2022 ESRSS (SVSD): Physical Literacy through Gymnastics -$1,000; and
\n\u2022 Town of Swan River Rec Dept.: Rotary Trails Upgrade-Phase 1 – $5,000.<\/p>\n

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Two Youth in Philanthropy grants were also awarded by the SVRSS Student Committee:
\n\u2022 Heyes Child Care Centre: Projector purchase – $560; and
\n\u2022 SV Trails Association (SV Museum): Brush mower purchase -$1,940.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Community Foundation of Swan Valley (CFSV) normally holds a spring granting evening this time of year. With COVID-19 restrictions still limiting public gatherings, the group held a \u2018drive-up\u2019 event to showcase the wonderful projects either happening or planned for the Swan Valley. The event was not open to the public but rather the grant recipients […]<\/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-36812","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\/36812","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=36812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}