The Quesnel Community Foundation’s $50,000 challenge was a huge success !
President Graeme Armstrong says they reached their goal and then some.
“We did amazing. Including the matching donation we raised just shy of 240 thousand dollars. Every single year it just keeps going up a little bit more.”
Just over 130 thousand dollars was raised last year.
An anonymous donor matches every dollar donated up to 50 grand during this campaign.
Armstrong says their endowment fund continues to grow…
‘It kind of goes up and down a little bit with the market, but I think it’s around 6 1/2 million dollars. And last year, what the grants are and the scholarships, have to do with how much is in the total fund, and last year the grants were around $200,000, so I would imagine that this year it’s going to be a little bit higher.”
People can start to apply for grants on January 1st.
The deadline is February 27th and then the grants will go out in late April.
