The Windsor Essex Community Foundation releases its annual Vital Signs report on October 15, 2014. (Photo by Jason Viau)The Windsor Essex Community Foundation releases its annual Vital Signs report on October 15, 2014. (Photo by Jason Viau)
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Local Groups Share $50K

By Ricardo Veneza
November 29, 2015 - 11:20am

The WindsorEssex Community Foundation is dishing out $50,000 in grants in support of community projects.

Twelve organizations in Windsor-Essex received money, which comes from annual earnings of the foundation's unrestricted endowment funds.

ACCESS County Community Support Services, Skate Amherstburg, Windsor Essex County Community Garden Collective, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Windsor-Essex, Windsor Classic Chorale, Windsor/Essex Humane Society, the Windsor Youth Centre, Family Services Windsor-Essex, the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, the Jack Miner Migratory Bird Foundation, Doors Open Windsor, and the Greater Windsor Track & Field Club all received funding.

The WECF handed out the grants as part of its 30th Annual General Meeting on Monday. For more on the funded projects, click here.

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