Where We Fund

Rotary serves in many ways including hands on projects, funding, and leadership. Here are some financial contributions the Club has made in the past few years.

  • 2018 AB Summer Games $2040
  • 577 Air Cadets
  • 1992489 AB Society – Parent Dance Group $2580
  • Alberta Special Olympics $25,000
  • Alzheimer Society of AB & NWT – $4887
  • ANSO Collectives and Education $29000
  • Art Gallery $15000
  • Bandaged Paws Animal Rescue Association $4891
  • Bear Creek Folk Festival $50000
  • Beaverlodge Elementary School Breakfast Program-$2,000
  • Bezanson AG Society $20,000
  • Bezanson Booster Club $5000
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters $10000
  • Camp Tamarack  $89,400
  • Canadian Cancer Society – $1000
  • Catholic Family Services $12580
  • Catholic School Foundation $6990
  • Cdn Motorcycle Tourism Assoc – $4905
  • Cdn Parents for French – $12870
  • Center 2000
  • Clairmont Participarent $27,500
  • Clairmont School Playground $25,000
  • Community Connections Learning – $2000
  • Clairmont Seniors $50000
  • Community Foundation  $50,000
  • Community Village Society $10000
  • Cool Aid $40,000
  • Crime Prevention – $5000
  • DCoy Armories Foundation – $4,900
  • Disable Transportation Society $21500
  • Eastlink TV $4000
  • Ecole St Gerard Playground $12210
  • Employment Partnership Program $25,000
  • Evergreen Park $17000
  • Food Banks in the Peace $50,025
  • Friends of Ecole St. Gerard Society $15000
  • Friendship Centre Aboriginal Head Start
  • Game Country Archers – $4620
  • Golden Age Center  (to date)   $125,000
  • GP Catholic School Band Parents Assoc $7080
  • GP Catholic School Education Foundation $5000
  • GP Dinosaurs – $545
  • GP Fire Fighters – Roatan Project – $1500
  • GP 4H Multi Club $5000
  • GP Friendship Centre $4200
  • GP Live Theatre $25,000
  • GP Minor Ball Association $20000
  • GP Pallative Care Society $3028
  • GP Pipe Band Assoc $5160
  • GP Pride Society – $4000
  • GP Public School Foundation $24,280
  • GP Regional Sport Connection $5000
  • GP Skate Club $12000
  • GP Society of Irish Dance $2520
  • GP Stompede Association $25000
  • GP Swim Club $20,280
  • GP Victim Services $15,700
  • GP Volunteer Services Bureau – $2500
  • GP Women’s Residence Association – $10000
  • GP Wrestling Club $5040
  • GPRC College Foundation  $55,000
  • Grade 3 Reading Academy – $5000
  • Grande Prairie Boy’s Choir  $11,500
  • Grande Prairie French School Playground $25,000
  • Grande Prairie Legends of Hockey $2,291
  • Grande Spirit Foundation – $4,350
  • Harry Balfour Participant Society – $750
  • Hillside Park  $50,000
  • HIV North Society – $4950
  • Hythe Senior Centre $50,000
  • Kool Aid $75,00
  • Lawn Bowling Center  $25,000
  • Local Air Cadets; (per annum)  $35,000
  • MADD $1000
  • Metis Nation of AB Local Council 1990 of GP $14500
  • Mighty Peace Day (Youth Society) $25,000
  • MS Society $4700
  • Multi-Plex Pool Complex Grande Prairie $33,000
  • Muskoseepi Park Playground  $40,000
  • Nitehawk Ski Area/Adventure Park $25000
  • Nitehawk Alpine Skit Team $12870
  • Northern Extreme Freestyle $6990
  • Northern Lights Baseball Academy – $4072
  • NW AB Retired Teachers Assoc. – $1000
  • Northreach Society $4312
  • Odyssey House $2400
  • PARDS (various work projects including hands on projects) plus cash $21,580
  • Parkside Montessori $20000
  • Peace Country Drug Awareness Coalition – $4000
  • Peace Wapiti Academy Band Parents $4400
  • Penson School Parent Fund-raising $25,000
  • Phillip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum $100,000
  • Pineridge Adventure Camp – $3155
  • QEII Hospital Auxiliary $9420
  • QEII Hospital Foundation  (to date)  $400,000
  • Rise Against Hunger $100,000
  • Rotary Community Room – Grande Prairie Public Library  $100,000
  • Rotary House   $260,000
  • Royal Cdn Legion $45000
  • Safe Communities $9860
  • Salvation Army Soup Kitchen & Food Bank $272,440
  • Saskatoon Island Prov. Park $7,500
  • Scholarships:  Various high schools in the region annually
  • Second Street Theatre
  • Sexsmith & District Museum Society $50000
  • Sexsmith Playschool Society $4140
  • Sexsmith Sabres Football team – $4126
  • Sexsmith Secondary Parent Council – $2500
  • Sexsmith Tumbling Club $1290
  • Signature Falls Association $15000
  • Skateboard park in Muskoseepi; $20,000
  • Smith Field Soccer facility  $50,000
  • Special Olympics $2040
  • St Lawrence Centre $16000
  • Stepping Stones Day Care $35,506
  • Suicide Prevention Society $20000
  • Swan City Hockey Associationi $24000
  • Swan City Taekwondo Club $2580
  • Swanavon School Parent Assoc $15,000
  • TEC Centre Facility Improvement $19,000
  • Volunteer Services Bureau $5,000
  • Wapiti Dorm Society $5000
  • West Peace Aviation Association $5,000
  • West Smokey Legion $19000
  • Wolverines Wheelchair Society $15949
  • YMCA GP Youth Program

On top of the above, our Club allocated over $100,000 in “Small Donations” for various local groups that apply to our Club for funding.
In the past year the Club has supported these and other projects:

  • Art Gallery of Grande Prairie – $40,000
  • Bear Creek Folk Festival – $25,000
  • Bezanson Booster Club – $20,000
  • Born to Read – $30,000
  • Centre for Creative Arts – $30,000
  • Daytime Outreach Facility – $2,000,000
  • Dcoy Community Hub $600,000
  • Dolly Parton Imagination Library – $2,500
  • Evergreen Park – $25,000
  • Gordondale Community Club – $20,000
  • GP & District Music Festival – $45,000
  • GP & District Victims Assistance Assoc – $20,000
  • GP Curling Centre $112,580
  • GP Fastball Association – $10,000
  • GP Hospital Foundationi – $850,000
  • GP Junior A Storm – $18,000
  • GP Minor Baseball Association – $35,000
  • GP Tennis Club – $48,000
  • Grade 3 Reading Academy – $90,000
  • Habitat for Humanity – $970,000
  • LaGlace & District AG Society – $25,000
  • Mighty Peace Youth Society – $30,000
  • River of Death & Discovery Museum – $35,000
  • Wembley Agricultural Society – $25,000

International Projects

  • Adopt A Village – $13,000
  • Amorok Society – $6,800
  • Apu Malawi Education Foundation – $23,000
  • Buses to Mexico
  • Eating Stone Orphanage – $55,400
  • Emmanuel Foundation – $5,000
  • Guataemala Literacy Program – $86,000
  • Hindhu Society – $78,245
  • Hope International $15,000
  • Kenya Orphanage – $20,000
  • Mexico Tepatiti $18000
  • Pattaya Orphanage – $20,000
  • Roatan Project – $27,000
  • Shelter Box – $12,000
  • Tasala School Thailand – $4,000
  • Yucatan Water Project – $3,318

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