On Friday, November 1, 2019, Durham Community Foundation is encouraging everyone to make kindness a priority across the Region of Durham as we celebrate this year’s Random Act of Kindness Day®. For more than five years our community has responded overwhelmingly to Random Act of Kindness Day®, paying little acts of kindness forward in all corners of the Region of […]
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New Endowment Fund at Durham Community Foundation
Adam Wiseman of Quality Mental Health Interventions (QMHI) Training and Consulting has established the QMHI Service Fund to assist in the training and provision of PTSD Service Dogs to first responders, military troops and veterans. To donate click here. https://www.canadahelps.org/en/pages/qmhi-service-fund/
RBC Future Launch Community Challenge
Bold youth-led initiatives address local needs as Durham Community Foundation joins the RBC Future Launch Community Challenge, making up to $30,000 available to youth-led projects that address diverse and urgent local priorities in the Township of Brock, Municipality of Clarington, Township of Scugog and Township of Uxbridge. For more on the funding opportunity and application process click here […]
Great Lakes One Water Partnership (GLOW)
Durham Community Foundation joins philanthropic partnership for flood awareness In Durham Region, we often experience the effects of climate change as floods. Flooding was the declared the 2017 Newsmaker of the Year in Clarington. Extreme rainfall in the Golden Horseshoe has increased dramatically in the last 20 years and will only continue to escalate. As climate change intensifies, our region […]