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Community Endowment Funds

Current community endowments

Dr. Jesse K. Bigelow Estate

R.F. Patrick Bowman Estate

Ruth Chapman memorial

Herb & Agnes Dunham Fund

George Ellis Estate

Esther Elford Memorial

Jesse MO Hardie Estate

Harold Carl Hansen Fund

Nancy & Fred T King Estate

Ladies of the Oldtimers Pemmican club

Lethbridge Ironworks Co. Ltd.

Alastair & Dale Maclean Endowment

Alexander Marnoch Estate

Bruce & Margaret Mckillop Endowment

Maurice & Molly Mitchell

Memorial Tributes Fund

Don Morris/Gas King Memorial

Winnifred Bernice Muir Estate

Amile Nelson Estate

Kenneth Owen Estate

James Rinehart Estate

Rinehart Ranches Ltd. Fund

Bill Russell Memorial

Walter 'Stubb' Ross Time Air Inc. Memorial

Kenneth Schumacher Estate

Mary & Bill Skelton Estate

Ernie Snowden Memorial

George Stevenson Estate

Agnes & Louis Turcotte Estate

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endowment funds

explained

establishing a fund

These funds are not are not tied to a specific charity or area of interest, which allows the foundation to respond to a broad range of immediate and changing needs of the community. This is ideal for donors that prefer to leave distribution of grants to the discretion of the Board. Donors can make gifts of any size to any existing Community Fund, or create a named Fund with a gift of $10,000 or more.

These funds provide the core of the Community Foundation's ability to strengthen the community because they make grants possible in areas not adequately covered in a particular year by designated and advised funds. Community Foundation's Board of Directors, with recommendations from the Grants Distribution Committee, directs the income to meet emerging opportunities and address issues of importance as they change over time. In this way, the community foundation balances its overall support to the community in all its diversity.

These funds allow the Board to respond to community needs primarily through a competitive application process vetted through volunteer advisory committees. Applicants must be qualified donnies as defined by the CRA, which includes registered charitable organizations and municipal organizations in southwestern Alberta.

Quiet, hardworking ranchers, Bill & Jim Rinehart followed in the footsteps of their parents, Russell & Elsie, respecting the land and valuing life in Southern Alberta. Wanting to make a lasting difference in Southwestern Alberta both men left legacies to the Lethbridge Community foundation. Read more ...

Nancy and Fred King loved their adopted city of Lethbridge and through their legacy gift to the Lethbridge Community Foundation, will continue to fund important community projects identified by the Foundation. Read more of the King's story...

In 2003 Brent Morris decided to start a fund in memory of his father Don Morris, combining contributions from the public with matching amounts from Gas King. Brent and Gas King decided to let the Foundation use the funds for areas of greatest need, to allow for flexibility in addressing changing needs in the future. Read more ...

A Lasting Legacy

Established and grown by pooled gifts from the community minded individuals and organizations to support community needs and opportunities in the areas of education, health and human services, arts and culture, and community development.

As one way to continue her husband Bill's work in the community, Barbara Russell decided to begin a memorial fund in Bill's name. "I heard about the Lethbridge Community Foundation, thought it would be a good thing to support ...and I did," she said. Read more of the Russell's story...