The North Central Family Centre established the Hopes and Dreams Fund at the Community Foundation to work as the back end of their campaign to raise $4 million to establish and sustain the new Orange Buffalo Lodge 30-unit intergenerational living complex and community hub.

The non-profit Regina Paramedics with Heart (PwH) is run by local paramedics “to enhance paramedics’ quality of life through professional and community collaboration.” Their volunteer members educate and promote their profession in initiatives at schools, senior living, local events, festivals, and other public initiatives, taking requests from the public to attend charity events.

For over 40 years, Phoenix Residential Society has provided residential and case management services to individuals in a variety of different programs. They serve individuals with major mental illness, substance use disorders, cognitive and developmental disabilities, acquired brain injuries, and those experiencing chronic homelessness.

In 2022, Regina & Area Sexual Assault Centre (RSAC) was granted $2,500 through the South Saskatchewan Vital Community Fund for their “Prevent It” program.

The centre aims to reduce and eliminate the impacts of sexual violence in the communities they serve through education, support and advocacy...

An anonymous donor through the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation (SSCF) has provided a generous donation of $250,000 to Regina Humane Society towards the Almost Home Capital Campaign. This campaign’s goal is to construct a new Animal Community Centre to serve as the new home for the Regina Humane Society.

February is Indigenous Storytelling Month. We’d like to take a moment to appreciate a recent grant recipient working to enhance Indigenous culture in our community.

In 2021, Phoenix Residential Society received $7,500 from the G. Murray and Edna Forbes Foundation Fund for their Cultural Enhancement Program.

February is Indigenous Storytelling Month. We’d like to take a moment to appreciate a recent grant recipient working to enhance Indigenous culture for young children in our community.

SCEP CENTRE – Early Intervention & Training Services received $2,000 in 2021 from the Smart & Caring Fund. SCEP CENTRE is a preschool program that helps the development of vulnerable young children...

The MNP Community Fund was established at SSCF in 2017 by MNP partners based in Regina, Estevan and Weyburn to support community programs and initiatives in those communities. MNP is giving $35,000 to Hope’s Home to use in 2022 towards their initiatives to support children.

SSCF congratulates author Dianne Warren, the inaugural recipient of the $20,000 Glengarry Book Award prize for her novel ‘The Diamond House’. The Fund for the Glengarry Book Award was established at SSCF in 2021 through an endowment by Claire Kramer.

An anonymous donor through the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation (SSCF) has generously provided $14,000 to Carmichael Outreach Inc. to help the organization with its ongoing programming and recovery from its losses during a recent break–in.

Exceptional community leaders Don Black and Ted Welter were quick to spearhead Leading with Hope within SSCF’s Emergency Response Fund during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Their focused efforts linked more than 32 donors and resulted in more than $223,000 being raised in less then four weeks. 

The Regina Work Prep Centre recently needed funding to upgrade computers and monitors in the Lorne and Evelyn Johnson Foundation (LEJF) Computer Resource Centre and Computer Classroom (CRC). The LEJF expanded their commitment to Work Prep’s cause and provided $15,000 in upgrades to the CRC.

Cowessess Ventures Ltd. (CVL) launched their website this February at www.cowessessventures.com with the support of the the Government of Canada’s Investment Readiness Program (IRP). CVL received an investment of $10,000 in 2020 through the IRP to complete the project.

Almost immediately after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the SSCF Board and staff moved swiftly to establish the Emergency Response Fund for Community Need (ERF). This initiative was intended to address urgent community needs resulting from the pandemic. 

More than $1 million, which included funding from the estate of a generous SSCF founding member and...

Hunger in Moose Jaw received funding from the Moffat Family Fund in 2020 for their Child Nutrition Milk Program, which delivers lunches daily to children in 18 schools in Moose Jaw.

When schools closed in March 2020 due to COVID-19, Hunger In Moose Jaw adapted their program within two weeks to continue to get nutritional food into the hands of children who need it.

South Saskatchewan Community Foundation and RBC Foundation are providing a grant of $15,000 to support a group of Nation Builder Youth Leaders from Treaty Education Alliance affiliated schools, who will plan and execute a series of podcasts and/or vodcasts on topics related to land conservation and traditional knowledge preservation.

South Saskatchewan Community Foundation and RBC Foundation are providing a grant of $15,000 to support Prairie Valley School Division with a project to engage Indigenous knowledge keepers in hands-on, land-based learning experiences. This project, based in Indian Head, will culminate in a “Week of Walking...

South Saskatchewan Community Foundation and RBC Foundation are providing a grant of $15,000 to support youth-led Community Cooking Classes at the Stoughton Central School. The project at Stoughton Central School is Community Cooking Classes. The grant will help to provide free cooking classes twice a week for students and community members. Ocean Man First Nation students and community members will be a part of the classes, thus bringing the two communities together and sharing ideas throughout. 

Since 1982, when disability rights were included in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, young adults with complex physical disAbilities have been pioneers in education and social inclusion. However, in our community, research and personal experience demonstrate that there is a lack of personalized and meaningful employment, education, and recreation opportunities for young adults with complex...

Random Acts of Kindness Day (RAK) was started in 2008 by the Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation to bring communities together by engaging citizens in small acts of kindness and generosity. On November 7, 2014, the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation partnered with Davis-Ward Centre for People Excellence to bring Regina its first Random Acts of Kindness Day.

The Regina Symphony Orchestra is grateful to the Bill & Helen Davidson Foundation for the $15,000 grant which enabled the 2013-2014 Music on the Road, an RSO Education & Outreach initiative. 

Music on the Road brings orchestral music and music education to Saskatchewan communities outside of Regina. This program helps to fill the increasing demand for cultural and educational...

For more than 100 years, the College Avenue campus has brought together people for the local community, across the province, and around the world in pursuit of learning. Today, the University of Regina is bringing back this historic jewel, renewing it, preserving its spirit and re-affirming its place at the heart of teaching and learning in Regina. 

This revitalized campus will be known as...

STARS offers time, hope and life-saving transport to critically ill and injured patients, often on the worst day of their life. In 2013, STARS received a generous donation of $10,891.00 from the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation. STARS operates on a model of combined funding from the government and community partners. Support from organizations like the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation...

In 2013, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Regina received an incredible $20,000 of funding through the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation, donated by the Lloyd and Duna Barber Family Foundation. This generous gift is going a long way to support JDRF and its goal to ultimately turn Type 1 Diabetes into Type none. 

The eight core emergency services Souls Harbour Rescue Mission provides to the City of Regina, area, and province — Soup Kitchen, Women’s Emergency Shelter, Free Clothing Store, Shayil Home (a one year residency-based women’s addiction program for women and their children), Little Souls Daycare (a 60 space subsidized facility), Dean Smith Youth Centre, and Harbour House...

The Regina Humane Society (RHS) is dedicated to improving the welfare of animals through programs and services in sheltering, education, protection and advocacy. Each year we assist over 4,400 lost, neglected, abandoned and abused animals in Regina and we are the fortunate beneficiary of funds from the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation. 

Camp Easter Seal is a residential camping program for individuals from age six to eighty-five. It is completely barrier free and is the only camp of its kind in Saskatchewan. Camp Easter Seal hosts campers with intellectual and/or physical disabilities. Each camp session is 6 days long and is designed for a different age group and level of disability, with physical activity programming designed specifically for those individuals. In the summer of 2013...

The Canadian Red Cross responds to disasters here in Saskatchewan and throughout the world. Thanks to generous donations, like the $97,000 donation from the G. Murray and Edna Forbes Foundation, the Canadian Red Cross was able to respond immediately to those affected by the flooding in the Philippines and continues to help families as they recover from the devastation. 

Ranch Ehrlo Society’s Ehrlo Counselling received a $50,000 grant from the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation last year to be allocated for pro bono counselling services. These funds help fill gaps in services within the community and aims to provide the necessary and utmost care to all of their clients regardless of socioeconomic status. 

The generosity of Derril McLeod and his family continues helping kidney dialysis patients across southern Saskatchewan. 

Last year, the Derril McLeod Family Foundation made a gift of $20,000 in support of the Renal Unit in the Wascana Rehabilitation Centre. The Renal Unit solves a critical healthcare challenge — the demand for hemodialysis services.

Regina’s Early Learning Centre is a child and family development centre working co-operatively with low income families to provide programs which foster healthy development of children from prenatal to five years of age. 

Thanks to a generous donation from the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation, in the..

Thanks to support from the Moffat Family Fund in 2012, Joe’s Place in Moose Jaw, was able to take numerous low income and at-risk youth to various camps, retreats, day trips and outings. Several youth who are recent immigrants to Canada were able to go horseback riding and knee-boarding for the first time. Other youth who were terrified of heights were able to overcome their fears as they climbed Castle Butte...

The $50,000 grant we received in 2012 from the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation was absolutely intrinsic to us moving forward with our vision of improving our building and making office purchases that we otherwise would not be able to do. 

The grants we currently apply for are for operating purposes and go towards salaries...

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation for their extremely generous donation to the Triple C Centre project through the Bill and Helen Davidson Foundation. This community project has been long in the making but with your $100,000 commitment to this fantastic vision, our idea is becoming a reality. We are so excited that the Choral Room, one of... 

Thank you for putting hope on the table. At a time of provincial economic prosperity it seems out of place that the role of food banks remains critical to ensuring for security for an average of 9,000 people each month. The effects of rising costs in a growing economy, particularly housing, impact those on fixed or low income disproportionately.