At its meeting on Monday (March 25), Peterborough City Council approved a staff recommendation for $229,550 in grants to community organizations, as well as a separate $5,000 for an organization originally denied funding under the grant program.
In addition, council approved $21,450 in funding for the Peterborough Folk Festival.
The $229,550 in funding includes $209,500 in Community Investment Grants and $20,050 in Community Project Grants for various local charitable, non-profit, and community groups. The city provides grants to organizations in the fields of arts, culture and heritage, environment, health and social services, and recreation and sport.
See the full list of organiizations approved for 2019 grants below.
At the meeting, council also approved $5,000 for Bedford House, a community organization that works to address poverty. The organization had applied to the City of Peterborough for a $9,190 Community Investment Grant to create guidebooks for its Building Bridges Out of Poverty volunteer teams, but was denied funding.
Bedford House board member Mary Gordon addressed council to appeal the decision, explaining the organization had been denied funding due to a misunderstanding. Councillor Keith Riel then requested that Bedford House be granted $5,000 from the city’s contingency fund, as no more funds were available in the Community Investment Grant program, and the motion was approved.
Council also approved a $21,450 Service Grant for the Peterborough Folk Festival, comprised of $20,500 in unallocated funding under the Community Investment Grant program, along with $950 of unallocated funding from the Community Project Grant program.
The Peterborough Folk Festival has been a long-standing recipient of multi-year funding through the Community Investment Grant program, but had reached the maximum funding of $15,000 under the program in 2018.
Moving the festival to the Service Grant program recognizes that the festival provides a significant economic benefit to the city through tourism. It allows for a higher level of city funding for the festival as well as stable funding, since the organization does not have to re-apply for the grant every year.
2019 Community Investment Grant Funding
- Artisans Centre Peterborough ($3,500)
- B!KE: The Peterborough Community Bike Shop ($6,000)
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peterborough ($5,000)
- Camp Kawartha for the Camp Kawartha Environment Centre ($4,000)
- Down Syndrome Association of Peterborough ($8,500)
- Elizabeth Fry Society of Peterborough ($15,000)
- Habitat for Humanity Peterborough & Kawartha Region ($7,000)
- Heads Up for Inclusion ($5,000)
- Junior Achievement of Peterborough Lakeland Muskoka ($3,000)
- Kawartha Komets Special Needs Hockey Program ($7,500)
- Kawartha Potters’ Guild ($3,500)
- Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre ($13,000)
- Kawartha World Issues Centre ($3,500)
- Kawartha Youth Orchestra ($15,000)
- Kawartha Youth Unlimited / Youth for Christ ($2,000)
- Mysterious Entity Theatre ($3,500)
- New Stages Peterborough ($8,000)
- PARD Therapeutic Riding ($4,000)
- Peterborough Bicycle Advisory Committee ($2,000)
- Peterborough Chapter of the Ontario Archaeological Society ($2,500)
- Peterborough Children’s Chorus ($5,000)
- Peterborough New Horizons Bands ($7,000)
- Peterborough Symphony Orchestra ($15,000)
- Peterborough Theatre Users Group ($4,000)
- PR Community & Student Association ($1,000)
- Public Energy ($13,000)
- ReFrame Film Festival ($12,000)
- SPARK Photo Festival ($7,000)
- Telecare Distress Centre Peterborough $7,000)
- The Art School of Peterborough ($2,500)
- The Peterborough Academy of Circus Arts ($4,000)
- The Peterborough Singers ($6,500)
- Transition Town Peterborough ($3,000)
- Trent Radio ($1,000)
More details of the applicants for the 2019 Community Investment Grant Funding.
2019 Community Project Grant Funding
- Autism Ontario, Peterborough Chapter ($750)
- Borderless Records ($1,000)
- Canadian Council of the Blind Peterborough Chapter ($500)
- Creating Space Community Arts Studio ($400)
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Peterborough ($650)
- For Our Grandchildren (4RG) Peterborough ($600)
- Friends in Music ($750)
- Inspire : The Women’s Portrait Project ($300)
- KARA (Kawartha Ancestral Research Association Inc.) ($500)
- Kawartha Artists Gallery and Studio ($500)
- Leta Brownscombe Cooperative Homes ($1,000)
- Lift Lock Community Garden ($550)
- Localizing the LEAP, Peterborough ($1,000)
- ME/FM Association of Peterborough and District ($800)
- Operation Catnip Peterborough ($1,000)
- Peterborough Chinese Community Organization ($450)
- Peterborough Gleans ($1,000)
- Peterborough- Northumberland- Kawartha Envirothon Steering Committee ($1,000)
- Peterborough Pet Food Bank ($650)
- Peterborough Poetry Slam Collective ($650)
- Peterborough Syrian Canadian Club (PSCC) ($750)
- Peterborough Vegfest ($750)
- Quilts for Cancer Peterborough County ($750)
- RC4G* Peterborough ($750)
- Sacred Water Circle ($550)
- Show and Tell Poetry Series ($450)
- Talwood Community Gardens ($400)
- The Abraham Festival ($1,000)
- Trent Vegetable Gardens ($600)
More details of the applicants for the 2019 Community Project Grant Funding.
