BeCause Radio

This week, in honour of the Endow Manitoba Giving Challenge, BeCause Radio highlighted several of Manitoba's 56 community foundations to learn more about how they support their local communities, along with how they are participating in this year's Giving Challenge.

In this segment from our November 18, 2021 broadcast, we spoke with Lynda Lambert, Endow Manitoba Community Foundation Coordinator for the South-Central region of Manitoba, which includes the Steinbach Community Foundation, Morris Area Foundation, Plum Coulee Community Foundation, and Morden Area Foundation.

This week, in honour of the Endow Manitoba Giving Challenge, BeCause Radio highlighted several of Manitoba's 56 community foundations to learn more about how they support their local communities, along with how they are participating in this year's Giving Challenge.

In this segment from our November 18, 2021 broadcast, we spoke with Mandy Dubois, Executive Director of the Community Foundation of Portage and District.

This week, in honour of the Endow Manitoba Giving Challenge, BeCause Radio highlighted several of Manitoba's 56 community foundations to learn more about how they support their local communities, along with how they are participating in this year's Giving Challenge.

In this segment from our November 18, 2021 broadcast, we spoke with Shauna Curtin, Chair of the Selkirk and District Community Foundation.

This week, in honour of the Endow Manitoba Giving Challenge, BeCause Radio highlighted several of Manitoba's 56 community foundations to learn more about how they support their local communities, along with how they are participating in this year's Giving Challenge.

In this segment from our November 18, 2021 broadcast, we spoke with Kit Daley, Executive Director of the Dauphin and District Community Foundation.

Founded in 1910, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada is the oldest kilted regiment in Western Canada. A new monument was recently installed at Vimy Ridge Memorial Park commemorating its history and honouring the veterans who served with the regiment.

BeCause Radio spoke with Robert Vandewater (CD), Past Honourary Colonel of The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada Foundation, to learn more about the regiment, its foundation, and the significance of the new monument.

BeCause Radio spoke with Alexis Nazeravich, Program Director at the Blue Thunderbird Land-Based Teachings Learning Centre, to learn more about how the Centre is a unique place that provides opportunities for students to learn on 49 acres of natural and agricultural grounds through a combination of Indigenous and western perspectives.

This past summer, six gardens officially opened at Assiniboine Park as part of the outdoor phase of The Leaf - Canada's Diversity Gardens. BeCause Radio spoke with Gerald Dieleman, Senior Director of Horticulture at Assiniboine Park Conservancy, to learn more about the role of the Conservancy in maintaining and developing Assiniboine Park, and about the gardens at The Leaf.

BeCause Radio spoke with 93.7 CJNU Station Manager Adam Glynn to learn more about how the volunteer-driven community radio station has been bringing listeners "the music and the message" for well over a decade, along with how listeners can support the station through its annual Pledge Weekend.

Samuel Unrau is Coordinator - Training, Community Inclusion and Support Services at Manitoba Possible. In this instalment of Our Next 100, Samuel shares his vision for Winnipeg's next 100 years.

About Our Next 100: We invited community members representing various sectors and Cause areas to share their visions for Winnipeg’s next 100 years, and the potential role philanthropy might play in achieving them. This series is an audio adaptation of their aspirational essays, collected in the second special centennial edition of The Foundation’s magazine, Building a vision for our next 100 years. You can find the essays on our website at wpgfdn.org/next100, or read the full issue on our Publications page.

Having access to healthy food and learning about cooking and nutrition are not only key to a child’s health and well-being ¬ they also set up lifelong healthy eating habits that can help kids reach their full potential.

The Winnipeg Foundation launched Nourishing Potential to support after-school, drop-in, and summer programs to provide healthy food and nutrition education to Winnipeg kids.

Learn more about Nourishing Potential at https://www.wpgfdn.org/community-leadership/access-to-healthy-food-a-recipe-for-a-success/