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December 2008 Grants Awarded
- $691.24 Bowen Island Community School - Community Learning, "Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions".
- $510.00 Bowen Island Community School - Community Learning, "Rhyme Time on the Rock" to purchase floor seating tiles and to train a substitute teacher.
- $2000 Bowen Island Community Museum and Archives, Bowen Island Historians - to assist with the costs of the new exhibit "History of Western Explosives factory on Bowen island".
- $3000 Little Red Church on Bowen Island - For the Knick Knack Nook, Bowen Island Re-Use it Store project.
- $750 Bowen Island Preschool and Community Daycare Society - at Bowen Children's Center, to purchase the Adobe Creative Suite - Dreamweaver in support of the Center's website.
December 2007 Grants Awarded
- $500 Tir-na-nOg - towards the 20th Anniversary Festival of Plays
- $1,350 Bowen Island Arts Council - towards the "It takes a Child to Teach a Village" program
- $1,000 Bowen Island Conservency - towards the development of a fund-raising or educaiton program to 'save the Fairy Fen".
- $1,000 Abbeyfield House of Bowen Island Society - towards the development of materials for a membership and fundraising drive
- $2,000 Bowen Island Historians - towards the 'story-tellingof the why, what, where and how of the Bowen Island Communty Museum'
- $500 Bowen Island Senior's Keeping Young (SKY) - towards the expense of guest speakers and educational excursions to the mainland
- $500 Bowen Island Family Place Association - towards the fundraising costs of the 4th Annual Children's Spring Festival
- $500 Bowen Island Montessori School -towards the artist's time to develop a Creative Play Studo for an Arts Education Program
- $2000 Bowen Island Christmas Hamper Fund - this is a matching funds program where the Foundation will match up to $2000 in donations made to the establishment of a Community Emergency Fund to assist in Islander's sudden and unexpected emergencies.
December 2006 Grants Awarded
- $1500 Bowen Island Teen Centre Society – producing a series of special events for Bowen Teen’s throughout the year
- $750 Bowen Island Family Place Association – Assisting with the Spring Children’s Festival
- $750 TirNaNog Theatre Society – for costumes and sets for their Pre-Diploma Project Group
- $800 Seniors Keeping Young (SKY) – towards Special Excursions off the island and supplies for fundraising at the Christmas Craft Fair
- $1000 Abbeyfield House of Bowen Island Society – to develop a fundraising and awareness building program
- $750 Bowen Island Preschool & Community Daycare Society at Bowen Children’s Centre – towards a Staff Professional Development Workshop
January 2005 Grants Awarded
One of the tenets of the Bowen Island Community Foundation’s
Mission Statement is: To provide for the enrichment
of the quality of life on Bowen Island by providing philanthropic leadership
in our community.
Through its association with the Vancouver Foundation, the Bowen Island
Community Foundation was able to award a second round of Community Grants
to some of Bowen’s Charitable Organizations.
- Tir-na-nOg Theatre School Society - $750.00 to
be used towards the materials cost of a stage and stands for raised
audience seating in the new Tir-na-nOg Theatre School building. These
will become permanent fixtures in the facility, and so will serve
the community for generations to come. The plan is to have the stage
and audience seating in place for the Festival of Plays in May 2005.
- Seniors Keeping Young (SKY) - $750.00 to assist
the organization in obtaining new exercise equipment; mats, weights,
etc and to buy supplies, materials etc. to allow them to enter the
Bowfest Parade and organize events such as the fashion show they held
last summer.
- "Real Learning” project title " Get' n Real"
- $750.00 An experiential learning program for youth at risk.
It involves 3 areas of growth: intra-personal skills, inter-personal
skills and technical life skills with the goal of improving self-esteem.
Using practical exercises, at risk youth are encouraged to develop
intra-personal skills such as integrity, courage and determination;
inter-personal skills such as teamwork, compassion and leadership;
and technical life skills such as goal setting, risk management and
decision-making.
- Island Pacific School - a grant of $750.00 towards
the purchase of martial arts training equipment and supplies.
- Bowen Island Teen Centre - $1000.00 for the 'Youth
Power: Learn to Use It” programme. A youth leadership training
opportunity. This is a “train the trainer” initiative
that involves educating a group of older teens in the finer points
of leadership development and having them, in turn, train grade 7
students at BICS and/or IPS in leadership skills to empower all the
youth to make positive changes in their community.
- Bowen Island Arts Council - $1000.00 A project
that is directed toward strengthening local community through artistic
performance. Pauline Le Bel has agreed to write a play about B.I.
for the Arts Council tentatively entitled Voices in the Sound, which
will be the highlight of their Heritage Festival in July 2005. This
will give the community a sense of history to achieve a sense of place.
With this dramatic telling of the Bowen Story, the island, as a community,
will come to know each other better and deepen our connection to the
land.
Jan. 2004 Grants Awarded
- Seniors Keeping Young (SKY) wanted so much to
be able to continue their participation in the DRAGON BOAT festival
and through a $1,000 donation they will be able to rent space for
ongoing seniors activities and to purchase the needed equipment to
fulfill that dream.
- Tir-Na_Nog Theatre School received $1,000 to purchase
a new Laser Printer for theatre communications. An ink-Jet, although
nice to be able to print in colour, was extremely expensive to operate.
Through this grant, the school hopes to be able to control some of
those printing costs.
- Bowen Island Gymnastics Club is hosting a world-class
event this year and with the $1,000 from the Bowen Island Community
Foundation will be able to purchase a new table vault for the club.
Upgrading equipment is part of an overall safety upgrading program
of the club and the Foundation is pleased to assist in the initial
upgrade.
- Bowen Island Preschool and Community Daycare Society
will utilize the Community Foundation’s $750 grant to launch
Shake, Rattle and Roll, which is a project to deliver music classes
to young children.
- Bowen
Island Teen Centre Society will utilize the Foundation’s
grant of $750 to develop a Bowen
Island youth-directed website built in an Internet café
setting, based on a mentorship approach. As a result of this initiative,
Bowen’s Youth will have an opportunity to learn graphic design
and web development to create an online environment for youth community
building, a forum for art and writing and a resource for employment
and homework.
The Mission Statement of the Bowen Island Community Foundation is Giving
back to Bowen. It is only through tax-deductible donations
are we able to continue this wonderful gifting process.
Please contact the Bowen Island Community Foundation · PO Box 18 ·Bowen Island, BC V0N 1G0 Tel: 604.947-0333
or info@bowenfoundation.com .
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