Endow Manitoba Giving Challenge Results of 2024
Challenge Complete Wawanesa Community!!
Thank you for supporting the Wawanesa Community Foundation during the Endow Manitoba Giving Challenge. This year’s challenge was a great success for community foundations across the province. Gifts stay here in Wawanesa in our undesignated “Community Forever” Fund and are stretched by The Winnipeg Foundation and the Province of Manitoba.
This year, similar to 2023, our first $5,000 of donations were also stretched by the great support of three of our local businesses, including Shur-Gro Wawanesa, Guild Insurance Group, and Ellis Seeds. Through their commitment, we were able to provide 100% matching dollars, so the first $5,000 became $10,000!
With the generosity of our Wawanesa community, past and present residents, and the great corporate support from local businesses, our 2024 results were very close to matching last year’s record total for the Giving Challenge week! When the final numbers came in from Endow Manitoba, the total amount of giving for 2024, including the matching donation dollars, total $18,595 for the week! Fantastic results and leaves an enticing target of exceeding $20,000 in 2025!
2024 Marguerite Cory Community Volunteerism Award
Time to start thinking of nominees…..
Request for nominees…..(deadline date…May 15/2024)
Please take the time to recognize a volunteer you know!!
The Marguerite Cory Volunteerism Award, sponsored by The Wawanesa Community Foundation, acknowledges individuals who inspire the spirit of volunteerism and who make exceptional contributions within the Oakland-Wawanesa Municipality and the Wawanesa School catchment area. (hereafter referred to as Community)
Marguerite was a tireless and dedicated volunteer, and the Wawanesa Foundation is proud to make this award in her name, as a visionary leader who exemplified selfless community giving.
This award is recognition of an individual who has made exceptional contributions to our community in the past year in either a leadership role or a worker behind the scenes. It is an individual who encourages others to give of themselves for the betterment and growth of the Community.
Individuals who are eligible/not eligible
Performed volunteer activity in the community over a period of at least one year. (Need not be resident of the Community)
Are not previous recipients of the same award.
Previous recipients include:
Enes Muheljić 2023
Haylee and Brett Hargreaves 2022
Dennis and Tanya Gullet Family 2021
Brent Cullen 2020
Mavis Brown 2019
Work as a Municipal, Provincial, or Federal politician is not considered eligible.
Other inquiries can be directed to Glenn McGregor of the Wawanesa Community Foundation 204 761-7596 or wawanesamcgregor@hotmail.com.
Download Nomination form PDF: