Each year, the Foundation awards more than $165,000 in grants to local Sunshine Coast charities. Several granting streams match different organizational needs.
Help us contribute to the quality of life on the Sunshine Coast by building endowments, making strategic grants, and inspiring community leadership.
Vital Signs is a national program that leverages local knowledge to measure the vitality of our communities and support action towards improving our collective quality of life.
$2 Million of grants awarded to local charities
105 local organizations supported with grants
$166,260 local grants awarded through COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund
70 local projects supported in 2020 and 2021
Sunshine Coast Foundation provides stable and sustainable financial support to charitable organizations from Port Mellon to Egmont. We offer donors the opportunity to increase their impact by pooling the gifts we receive and carefully investing them. Each year, we use the earnings on our investments to provide funding to local charities. We help to connect donors with the causes that inspire them and the charities that are having the greatest positive impact. Our Vital Signs program compiles current and relevant research to help local organizations and decision-makers understand the issues and trends facing our Sunshine Coast community.
The Sunshine Coast Foundation stewards more than 60 permanent funds, the capital of which is permanently invested, and the earnings from which support annual grants to local charities. Anyone may make a donation to any of the Foundation’s permanent funds. Please visit our donations page or call the Foundation office at 604.741.7360.
Vital Signs is a national program led by community foundations and coordinated by Community Foundations of Canada. It leverages local knowledge to measure the vitality of our communities and support action towards improving our collective quality of life.
Vital Signs reports are snapshots of our community that present our challenges and celebrate our accomplishments.
We would not be able to undertake our mission without the generous support of hundreds of individual donors. To them we say: Thank you!
A new report from the Sunshine Coast Foundation and Living Wage for Families BC has estimated that the 2021 living wage for the Sunshine Coast is $19.79 per hour. A Living Wage is the amount that each adult must make to support the basic expenses...
A new report from the Sunshine Coast Foundation and Living Wage for Families BC has estimated that the 2021 living wage for the Sunshine Coast is $19.79 per hour. A Living Wage is the amount that each...
The Board of the Sunshine Coast Foundation is very pleased to announce that it has appointed Connie Baxter as its incoming Executive Director. Connie brings more than 30 years’ experience in non-profi...
A new endowment at the Sunshine Coast Foundation has been established in memory of Jennifer Gray. Jen was an active contributor to life on the Sunshine Coast before her death from cancer last summer. ...
The Sunshine Coast Search and Rescue Association lost a long-time volunteer earlier this year, Robert Allen. In his memory, the Association is establishing an endowment at the Sunshine Coast Foundatio...
The Board of Directors of the Sunshine Coast Foundation announces that, after five years at the helm, Wendy Francis will retire as Executive Director early in 2022. Wendy joined the Foundation in Janu...
On June 11th the four food banks on BC’s Sunshine Coast launched a Coast-wide food bank drive to raise $100,000 for their current and future operations by July 15th. With COVID-19 exasperating f...