Community Grant Program

For charities, not-for-profits and unregistered organizations working to address community needs, utilizing interest generated from our community endowment.

Community Grant Program 2025 Application Resources (Application period opens Oct 15th - 29th, 2025)

Final Report

Previous Recipients

2024 (Funded by GDCF’s Community Grant Program & Golden Prosperity Fund)

  • Golden Family Center, Local Mental Health Services: Counselling & Infrastructure

  • Abbeyfield House Society St. Paul’s Golden, Accessibility Upgrades: sidewalks & entrance ways

  • Métis Nation Columbia River Society, Strengthening the Thread on Golden and Area A path to reconciliation of Indigenous traditions, ceremonies, and cultures

  • Golden Curling Club, Purchase of new scraper & blade

  • Golden Nordic Ski Club, Septic upgrade

  • Senior Boys Basketball Association, Basketball shooting machine for the Golden Rec Plex

  • Cresteramics, Accessories for new centre for persons with intellectual disabilities

  • Kicking Horse Culture, Embers: Youth Art Workshops & Drop-Ins at Youth Centre

  • Golden Secondary School Drama Club, Support to attend Shakespeare Festival in Vernon

  • Golden Men’s Group, Facilitator training to support men, boys and all youth mental health

  • Golden Seniors Centre, Technology upgrades

2023

  • Metis Nation Columbia River Society, National Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration 

  • Avalanche Canada, Golden Youth Avalanche Education 

  • Kicking Horse Gymnastic Club, Creating a Sustainable Future 

  • Golden & District Historical Society, Bearers of Tradition Volume 2 - Recording Golden’s Oral Histories 

  • Abbeyfield House Society, Solar Panels 

  • Local Food Matters, Golden Growers Collective

  • Golden Food Bank, Communal Teaching Garden 

  • Golden Community Resources Society, Electric Car Share Project

This program started in 2001 at the inception of the Golden & District Community Foundation thanks to our founders! It’s comprised of many funds including Adventure Realm Wilderness Leadership Fund , Bud Stewart Memorial Fund,  Golden and District Community Endowment Fund, Crandlemire-Keenleyside Family Legacy Fund,  Golden Log Truckers Association Fund, Kicking Horse Community Endowment Fund

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