Community Connect - January 2025 WRCF e-newsletter

WRCF's monthly e-newsletter

January 2025                                                                View this email in your browser WRCF’s monthly e-newsletter to keep you connected to granting information, investing, what’s new, and ways we are mobilizing and collaborating to make an impact in our community. Blog: A prediction of what’s to come WRCF's President & CEO, Eric Avner, shares his thoughts on the future of AI, its impact on our community, and how WRCF is already actively testing and piloting ways for AI to help us. Read more The Waterloo Region Record - Lyle S. Hallman Foundation Kids to Camp Fund Approximately $270,000 will be distributed to provide grants to camps enabling children and youth who reside in Cambridge, Kitchener, North Dumfries, Waterloo, Wellesley, Wilmot, and Woolwich and area, who need financial assistance to attend a variety of day, overnight, recreational and educational camps. Applications close: February 10, 2025 Read more 2025 Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery is currently accepting submissions for the 2025 Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics. Applications are open and accepting submissions until Sunday, January 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST Learn more and apply VALUABLE RESOURCE: Coalition of Muslim Women of K-W expands support with help from WRCF through Fund for Gender Equality  Towards Violence Free Homes, a program offered by Coalition of Muslim Women of K-W, was recently bolstered by a multilingual chat component. WRCF was pleased to support this program through the Fund for Gender Equality. Read more ENGINEERING GENEROSITY: Start-up success gives young family chance to help community for years to come with WRCF fund Pat and Jessica Martinson share a passion for giving, so when their lives changed after the sale of Clearpath Robotics, they knew supporting the community would continue to be part of their philanthropic plan moving forward. Read more Questions? Contact us at info@wrcf.ca or 519-725-1806 DONATE NOW Connect with us Copyright © 2025 Waterloo Region Community Foundation, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as a subscriber to our e-communications. Our mailing address is: Waterloo Region Community Foundation 200-2 King Street West Kitchener, ON N2G 1A3 Canada Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.