Many groups benefit from CKCF support

The Chatham Voice

More than 40 community groups are benefitting from a cash infusion from The Chatham-Kent Community Foundation as well as from the South Kent Wind Community Fund, a donor-advised fund of the CKCF.

The cheques – totalling more than $350,000 – were presented at the agency’s recent annual general meeting.

CKCF executive director

Chris Pegg said the foundation is pleased to have granted over $574,000 in the last year, with $350,000 going to 40-plus charities as part of the Spring Grant application process.

Pegg said the foundation invests money received from donors and then distributes five per cent of the annual earnings to community groups and causes.

According to Pegg, the CKCF fund, now worth $12 million, has been helping the community for the past 33 years.

Wheatley’s Village Resource Centre was the top recipient in the Spring Round, receiving $30,500 to purchase equipment and supplies, to pay

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