The
Wild
Rose Foundation
is a lottery
funded agency created by the Government of Alberta in November of
1984. It is governed by a seven person Board of Directors. The
Honourable Stan Woloshyn, Minister of Community Development in Alberta
is also the Minister responsible for the
Wild
Rose Foundation.
The
Wild Rose Foundation
provides assistance through the provision of funding assistance
under the Quarterly Grants Program to
volunteer-based, registered non-profit or charitable community service
agencies and to non-government organizations under the
International Development Grants Program.
In the
1998-99 fiscal year, the Foundation awarded approximately $4.5 million
to over 200 Alberta volunteer, non-profit community service
organizations and approximately $1.2 million to over 100 Alberta-based
non-government organizations.
Foundation
funding assistance and its educational and volunteer initiatives, enable
hundreds of Alberta’s non-profit and non-government organizations and
tens of thousands of volunteers to carry out important programs and
projects which contribute tremendously to Alberta’s well being.
Alberta,
Canada and the international community view the Wild Rose Foundation as
a model organization for support, assistance and promotion of volunteer,
charitable, humanitarian and philanthropic efforts. Requests for advice
and assistance from the Foundation are testimony to the value of the
Foundation as a resource in the volunteer sector.
(Note:
the information above has been borrowed from the
Home page of the
Wild
Rose Foundation
web site.