Victoria Foundation Awards $2.3 Million in Funding to Vancouver Island Non-Profits

The Victoria Foundation has approved a record high $2,294,724.40 in annual Community Grants to 104 non-profit organizations on Vancouver Island, including over 25 arts and culture-related initiatives.

Supported by the Foundation’s Vital Victoria Fund, Community Grants are awarded each December. Individual donors and fund holders also contribute significantly, this year providing almost $800,000 of the total $2.3 million.

A full list of the projects funded can be found here. The arts and culture initiatives to win Community Grants include:

• Ballet Victoria (Funds for production technical support; $12,632)
• The Belfry Theatre (Indigenous Artists & Arts Administrators Project; $40,000)
• Civic Orchestra of Victoria (Support for operations grant and bursary for section leaders; $10,000)
• Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria (Music Program for Marginalized People; $20,000)
• Dance Victoria (Dancers of Damelahamid Outreach; $11,000)
• Ensemble Laude (Mentoring Emerging Female Artists; $9,900)
• Jewish Community Centre of Victoria (The Victoria International Jewish Film Festival; $7,000)
• Kaleidoscope Theatre (Family Theatre Festival 2018; $15,000)
• L'Arche Comox Valley (Craftworx Collective; $15,000)
• M'akola Housing Society (West Shore Aboriginal Day Festival; $7,000)
• OCTA Collective (artsREACH In-School Program; $11,204.05)
• Ptarmigan Music and Theatre (Once Upon an Island: Building Community Through Storytelling; $15,000)
• SingYourJoy Young Adult Chorus (Raising the Bar: Higher Performance and Commitment Goals for SYJ; $12,000)
• Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus (20th Anniversary Music Program; $15,000)
• Story Studio Writing Society (Creative Writing Programming for Schools with Vulnerable Student Populations; $30,000)
• Story Theatre Productions (The Library Club; $12,500)
• Theatre SKAM (Fashion Machine 100; $33,300)
• Via Choralis (Liebeslieder Waltzer (Brahms) and Madrigals; $3,000)
• Victoria Baroque Music (Baroque, music, concerts and outreach; $10,000)
• Victoria Choral Society (Performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis Feb 11, 2018; $8,000)
• Victoria Conservatory of Music (Getting Started - Early Childhood Music Education Outreach; $18,500)
• Victoria Philharmonic Choir (JS Bach's B Minor Mass Choral Concert; $8,500)
• Victoria Theatre Guild and Dramatic School (Volunteer Development: Building Skills, Capacity & Community; $26,718)
• Victoria Youth Clinic (Cracking the Cocoon; $25,000)
• Viva Youth Choirs (Let the Youth Make Music; $5,645)
• West Coast Children's Choral Society (Prelude Choir Expansion; $7,000)

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