Sweetgrass and CFWE news briefs - February 12, 2016

Indigenous programs, projects benefit from CFEP, CIP grants

February 11, 2016. Two southern First Nations boards of education benefitted from recent provincial grant dollars. The Kainai Board of Education received $47,500 through the Community Initiative Program for a new program to inspire comprehensive school health, while Siksika Board of Education received $37,704 through the Community Facility Enhancement Program for playground development at Old Sun School. Other CIP funding was awarded to the Aboriginal Women’s Professional Association, of Ardrossan for $37,500; ABC Headstart in Delwood school in Edmonton for $30,000; Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society in Calgary for $74,926; Mother Earth’s Children’s Charter School Society in Warburg for $2,454; and the Youth Emergency Shelter Society of Edmonton for $50,000. Also receiving CFEP grant funding was the Kapawe’no First Nation of $30,000 to renovate the Grouard community hall. The province provided $6 million in CFEP grants and $4.5 million in CIP grants to assist 294 projects in communities throughout Alberta.