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Red Kettle donations desperately needed

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An urgent appeal just days before Christmas.

The Salvation Army says contributions to their Red Kettle campaign are down this year, and that is putting programs at risk.

They say this comes at a time when even more people are in need.

“Our kettle bells are ringing, but far fewer donations are being dropped in,” says Lt-Colonel John Murray, territorial secretary for communications. “This is a critical moment. Every dollar matters. Every gift helps put food on a table, keep someone warm, or provide shelter and support to a person in crisis. The need is urgent.” 

Funds raised through the Campaign support Christmas assistance and essential year-round services that include food banks and meal programs, shelters, and vulnerable seniors.

The campaign wraps up tomorrow or on Christmas Eve depending on where you live.

“We are seeing more first-time requests for help than ever before–working families, seniors on fixed incomes, and individuals facing sudden and unexpected crises,” Murray adds.

Donations can be made at any of the over 2000 kettles across Canada.

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Holiday gift card program to help needy kicks off for 35th year

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Dryden’s Community Support Centre has officially launched its 35th annual Christmas Cheer Program.

The successful initiative provides gift cards in place of food hampers to help families in need over the holidays.

As the Community Support Centre’s executive director says, providing gift cards to applicants sets the program apart from traditional food banks.

“We didn’t want to duplicate that,” explains Debbie Dokuchie, adding the organization switched to gift cards during the pandemic. “So this helps people during the holiday season to spread those groceries out.”

She adds that every donation, big or small, will provide assistance to more than 300 families in need over the holidays.

People who are employed but don’t make enough money to cover the extras at Christmas are among those eligible for the program as are people receiving financial assistance or no assistance at all.

“This is the one time of the year, during the holiday season, they can have a little bit of automony,” says Dokuchie. “(They) can can purchase those items that are wants or needs within their family.”

Residents, businesses and community groups are encouraged to donate by December 1, which is also when the deadline for application closes on the organization’s website.

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$20K Grants Available For Women’s Charities

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Some new support is available for organizations serving women, transgender, non-binary and Two-Spirit people.

The Canadian Women’s Foundation Vice President of Community Initiatives, Anuradha Dugal, says they’re offering grants of up to $20,000 to charities that are facing extra challenges because of the pandemic.

“We really want to offer a funding opportunity for gender justice and women’s organizations to get some flexible, year-long support for expenses they might have around all of the areas that the Foundation is interested in supporting,” which she explains includes violence prevention, economic development, empowering girls, and girls’ and women’s leadership.

Dugal says the Foundation especially wants to help charities serving people facing multiple types of barriers.

“We have a focus on women with disabilities, Black, Indigenous and racialized women, and women in rural, remote, and northern areas,” she says.

Organizations interested in applying can visit this link to learn how to submit a proposal. Applications are open until August 6th at 4PM EDT.

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Brewery Supporting NWO Charities

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It’s the third year for the Craft Cares initiative supporting charities across the northwest.

Until Valentine’s Day, Sleeping Giant Brewery is donating 50 cents from each sale of its products at certain restaurants.

The initiative has raised nearly $27,000 over the past two years, and has supported 69 charities and organizations in Northwestern Ontario.

Sales at each location will support a different charity or organization.

Click here for the full list of establishments.

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Charities Hard Hit By COVID-19

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Charities across Canada could lose $9.5-billion with the loss of more than 117,0000 jobs over three months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

That’s according to new projections from Imagine Canada, a group which represents 170,000 charities.

Board member Nadine Duguay-Lemay says those numbers are even higher when you include other organizations in the “social goods sector” such as non-profits.

Duguay-Lemay says charities will need more support from the government, the private sector and individuals to stay afloat.

She is afraid that the whole sector will go dark, resulting in a loss of revenue, service disruptions, massive layoffs and a loss of services in local communities.

 

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OPP And Ice Dogs Team Up To Help Local Youth

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Provincial Police across the Dryden area will lace up their skates tonight (Tuesday) for a charity fundraising game.

The OPP face the GM Ice Dogs at 6:00pm at the Woodland Arena in Vermilion Bay.

Constable Brittany Bembeneck says “both teams have come together in hopes to raise funds to purchase skates, helmets and broomball equipment for students of Lillian Berg School to use at the Arena.

Bembeneck says admission is only $5 and there will be a penny auction and chili for sale.

All proceeds support youth in the community.

It’s also an opportunity for Vermilion Bay residents to watch the Dryden GM Ice Dogs in person.

To hear more from Constable Bembeneck, visit the Audio link below.

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Dryden Rotary Continues To Give

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The Dryden Rotary Charity Foundation has announced another round of generous donations for the region.

One of those donations is $10,000 towards the Dryden Food Bank to help them pay for their new Refrigerated Van.

Multiple Christmas Cheer organizations are receiving funds as well including $3,500 for both Red Lake and Dryden Christmas Cheer each with another $1,000 going towards Christmas Cheer in Ear Falls.

The Mary Berglund Ignace Food Bank will see $2,000 and the Dryden Children’s Delight Series will also be seeing $4,000 for their programming.

Finally the Dryden Skating Club is receiving $2,200 for equipment and Open Roads School will get $2,400 for tournament transportation assistance.

The Dryden Rotary Club says these funds are raised through weekly radio bingo that broadcasts on Thursdays on CKDR. The Radio Bingo also supports the Sioux Lookout Rotary Club’s charitable donations in that town.