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The WindsorEssex Community Foundation is building a better Windsor-Essex, now and for generations to come, by attracting and managing legacy funds, addressing community needs through grant making, and bringing community partners together. We are leaders in community development who help to identify and fill needs by supporting not-for-profit organizations with funding and expertise.
Current News & Events
December 30, 2011 - Good Things Do Happen by Dr. Lloyd Brown-John
The qualities of philanthropy and voluntarism, while so crucial to the fabric of American democr acy, are also very much evident in Canada. Specifically, Windsor and Essex County are blessed with an abundance of volunteers and local philanthropists willing to support financially creative and positive volunteer-based community activities. I had the opportunity recently to witness that crucial link between community voluntary organizations and philanthropic financial support for such organizations at a delightful evening of grant presentations by the Windsor Essex Community Foundation. The WECF has been around in other incarnations since 1983. However, since 2008, it has been a well-focused organization dedicated to matching innovative community solutions with those funds often so very essential to volunteer organizations delivering essential community support services to all sorts of local people.
November 30, 2011 - Great Stories in our 2011 Annual Report!
The Foundation's 2011 Annual Report and Audited Financial Statements are now available to view here.
November 28, 2011 - Local Charities Given $184,000 Boost!
The WindsorEssex Community Foundation is pleased to announce $119,000 in new grants for local charities. These funds are in addition to the $65,000 that has been awarded since December 1, 2010, making the total for the year $184,000. The forty organizations receiving funds will be recognized at a Grant Celebration on Monday, November 28th, from 5:00pm – 6:00pm at the Ojibway Nature Centre.
Read the full release or See the full list of grants
CLICK HERE to read, view, or hear many of the stories that came out of the day.
October 13, 2011 - WECF Pledges $175,000 for Assumption Grand Front Entrance
The WindsorEssex Community Foundation announced today a grant of $175,000 to assist with the funding for the planned Grand Front Entrance of the Assumption Church campus.
Since much of the work done by The Community Foundation in its early years was in the development of Windsor’s riverfront, being able to provide for “an expanded contiguous pedestrian network … that links the church precinct to city parks, the waterfront and campus walkway system…” was an excellent project for us to fund.
The WindsorEssex Community Foundation is pleased to have participed in meetings in Detroit which were help in conjunction with the inaugural Great Lakes Week. We also encouraged attendance by local environmental groups, as well as other community foundations in the Great Lakes Watershed.
The week's activities were truly historic as they brought together the four leading government and private organizations overseeing management of the Great Lakes. Representatives of the U.S. and Canadian governments together with a broad coalition of public and private groups highlighted efforts to implement solutions for the lakes' most pressing problems.
Thanks to a grant from the Erb Foundation, Detroit Public Television provided significant public access to the event and WECF was able to offer a Live Stream on their website.
CLICK HERE For more information on Great Lakes Week including notes and videos from the events.
