CFUW KELOWNA COMMUNITY PROJECTS
Coldest Night of the Year
Once again CFUW Kelowna entered a team of six to this fundraiser to help street people in our community through the Metro organization. Our team, CFUW Kelowna Hot to Trots, raised $610 which has been donated to Metro. Thank you to all the participants and especially to Ruth for leading our efforts and to all who donated. (Photos above).
Once again CFUW Kelowna entered a team of six to this fundraiser to help street people in our community through the Metro organization. Our team, CFUW Kelowna Hot to Trots, raised $610 which has been donated to Metro. Thank you to all the participants and especially to Ruth for leading our efforts and to all who donated. (Photos above).
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CFUW Kelowna is a proud supporter of the recently formed Society for a new Performing Arts Centre.
https://kelownaperformingarts.ca/
(You can also download the brochure immediately above to circulate by email. There is a link to the website there also.)
Please support them by signing up on their website and forward to others who want to support their efforts.
Over the past sixty years we have:-
ARTS AND CULTURE
LITERACY
ENVIRONMENT
OTHER
https://kelownaperformingarts.ca/
(You can also download the brochure immediately above to circulate by email. There is a link to the website there also.)
Please support them by signing up on their website and forward to others who want to support their efforts.
Over the past sixty years we have:-
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sponsored the arts in schools and the community
- Started the Kelowna and District Arts Council (KADAC)
- Raised funds to purchase grand pianos, seats and furnishings at the Kelowna Community Theatre
- Sponsored theatre performances and symphony concerts (Vancouver Symphony Orchestra)
- Organized a regional drama festival
- Donated to the Kelowna Art Gallery and the Kelowna Museum
LITERACY
- Started Friends of the Library and served on its board
- Started Project Literacy, served as board members and volunteered as tutors
ENVIRONMENT
- Donated to the Environmental Education Centre for the Central Okanagan
- Advocated for water conservation
- Advocated for recycling
- Donated to Mission Creek Greenway
- Contracts with the City of Kelowna as partners in the Adopt-a-Road program (see photo of the 2020 volunteers below)
OTHER
- Wrote life stories for about twenty residents of the Good Samaritan Mountainview Village
- Donated to the Salvation Army, the local Food Bank, the local Women's Shelter, Friends of Schizophrenia, Inn from the Cold, Elizabeth Fry Society, Freedom's Door, Habitat for Humanity, and NOW Canada, among other recipients
- Individual members volunteer with a wide range of community organizations, from sports to medicine, history to education groups, animal welfare to parks
