TheComox Valley Community Foundation announced that the Catherine Mary (Mamie) Aitken estate will donate over $6,000,000.00 to the CVC Foundation. This is, by far, the largest gift ever made to the Foundation. “This generous gift is a game changer for the Foundation...
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A $6,000,000 gift to the community
This article was originally featured in the Comox Valley Record. See the original article, or click the image below. Catherine Mary Aitken contributed much to the Comox Valley during her lifetime. And she will continue to do so in perpetuity. Affectionately known as...
Identifying Community Needs
Every year the Comox Valley Community Foundation identifies community needs and supports charitable groups that are working hard to enrich lives in the Comox Valley. In October, the Foundation Board considers grant requests from dozens of CV charities. In November and...
CVCF grant stocks bookshelves at Puntledge
See original article at the Comox Valley Record. Ecole Puntledge Park beefed up its library thanks to a helping hand from the Comox Valley Community Foundation. At first, the Courtenay elementary school was turned down in its grant application, but was then given...
Give Yourself A Break
It’s April: spring time, blossom time and.... tax time! While many of us scramble to make donations to our favourite charities by the end of December, it’s really in April that we see the usefulness of our generosity from a tax perspective. Our tax system provides a...
A Legacy That Lives On
When Donald Denny Gordon died in late January, the Comox Valley Community Foundation lost one of its greatest original supporters. Fortunately, the nature of his gifts to the CVCF means that Donald’s legacy will live on in perpetuity. Since the CVCF was created in...
The Community Foundation Distributes $200,000 in 2015
The Community Foundation Distributes $200,000 in 2015 Happy New Year! As we close out another year, I would like to thank you for your part in building the Comox Valley Community Foundation and share with you some of our successes for 2014. Let’s start with the...
Directing Your Donation
Making a donation to the CV Community Foundation doesn’t always mean giving up control of how that money will be used. “Donor advised funds” are an important part of the CVCF’s grant making program. One example of a ‘donor advised fund’ is the Rotary Club of Courtenay...
2015 Community Enrichment Awards
With the largest amount of funds distributed throughout the Comox Valley community to date, 20 local organization are able to grow and offer more to their members, thanks to the Comox Valley Community Foundation. In January, 2015, at the Comox Valley Recreation...
Partnering Pays Off
Last month the Comox Valley Community Foundation distributed almost $50,000 to local charities which maintain “agency endowment funds” with the CVCF including Abbeyfield House Society, Filberg Heritage Lodge and Park Association, Hornby Island Educational Society, Sid...
