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from the website: "To assist the Orange County Fire Authority with additional resources needed to provide an enhanced level of fire prevention, suppression, and emergency medical services to the citizens of Orange County"

We are a community foundation created by and for the residents of Nelson and the surrounding area. We also administer community funds created by nearby communities: the Slocan Valley Legacy Fund, the Salmo Valley Fund and the Community Fund of North Kootenay Lake. We are here to help individuals and groups make an ongoing difference in their communities. When you give to a fund within Osprey Community Foundation, your money is never spent. Instead, it is added to a growing, income-earning pool of capital. Each year the earnings on that capital flow back into our communities though grants to local charities. Your donation is like an apple tree - once planted, the tree will keep providing harvests for year after year. It's a gift that keeps on giving. Osprey grants support services for seniors, fund youth programs, provide scholarships, feed the hungry, support the arts, improve the health and safety of our citizens, and much more.

In 2005, Nathan Beninger established the Pura Vida Foundation (meaning Pure Life in Spanish) which is a registered charity in Canada that focuses on improving the lives of children and youth in Latin America. The foundation hopes to attain this goal through varied projects. The Pura Vida Foundation opened its first Shelter in January 2009 on a rental basis, which reaches out to marginalized and exploited young girls of Cusco, Peru and surrounding areas. We are working to raise $110,000 to permanently establish the shelter. In addition, Pura Vida strives to provide basic necessities throughout Cusco.

The World Heritage Foundation (WHF) is a public charitable foundation established to disburse funds to qualified donees in the areas of sustainable socio-economic development

The YVR Art Foundation was founded in 1993 by the Vancouver Airport Authority to foster the development of BC First Nations art and artists. In 2004, in collaboration with corporate and foundation donors, the Foundation created an Art Scholarship and Awards Program to provide support to BC First Nations youth who wished to develop their artistic potential. To date the Foundation has awarded over $200,000 to over 40 young artists.

Canadian Women's Foundation is the only national public foundation dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls. The Foundation raises funds to support programs that focus on three areas fundamental to the wellbeing of women and girls: ending violence, establishing economically independent women, and building resilient girls.

The Leacock Club and Foundation was established in 1992 and has a 16 year history of making a difference in the lives of children. The Leacock Club provides funding for its associated charitable public foundation—the Stephen Leacock Foundation for Children. Since its inception, our supporters have donated $5.5 million to its public foundation- the Stephen Leacock Foundation for Children, through membership donations, corporate sponsorship and special events. We are Efficient: Administration expenses are held to a 10% threshold. We achieve this efficiency through careful budgeting, low overheads and volunteerism.

The Squamish Community Foundation is an independent, charitable organization dedicated to enriching the quality of life for the community members of Squamish. The foundation was created in 2003 to meet the needs of our growing community through the establishment of a locally-based long term institution. We manage funds given to us by donors in our community and distribute the income from those endowed funds to local registered charities for community projects. Squamish Community Foundation belongs to the Community Foundations of Canada, a group of 165 community foundations across Canada. The Squamish Community Foundation is governed by a volunteer board of directors which is made up of community leaders who are Squamish residents and whose carried backgrounds are intended to be representative of Squamish’s diversity.