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United Way Perth Huron offers $20K grants

The United Way Perth Huron is offering grants of up to $20,000 for organizations that see a local issue that needs to be addressed.

The New Initiative Grant process is a chance to respond to emerging needs test service models, support smaller projects, and help pilot new ones.

The grants fund one-year projects developed by registered Canadian charities or not-for-profits who are planning to, or already deliver, social and community services in Perth and/or Huron County.

Expressions of interest can be submitted to UWPH until Friday, November 23, 2018, at 5 p.m. Submissions will then be reviewed based on eligibility requirements and organizations will be notified whether or not their initiative has been approved to move on to the full application stage. Full applications are then submitted by Sunday, December 9, 2018 at midnight.

This past year’s recipient, the Local Community Food Centre, received a grant for their Newcomer’s Community Kitchen to bring newcomers along with their sponsors and friends together over a meal. The food, prepared by the participants, provides an occasion to mingle and meet new friends.

For more details, please visit www.perthhuron.unitedway.ca/funding, or contact Director Governance & Community Impact Megan Partridge at 519-271-7730 ext. 225 or [email protected]

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