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By Stephanie Swensrude

City funding

City of Kamloops gives $90,000 in community services grants to nine organizations

Jan 17, 2022 | 4:18 PM

KAMLOOPS — Nine organizations will receive grant funding from the City of Kamloops and the Community and Protective Services Department.

ASK Wellness, A Way Home Kamloops, Kamloops Music Collective, People in Motion, Spinal Cord Injury BC, the Mustard Seed and Consent Café received a combined total of just over $90,000.

Kamloops Naturalist Club and Kamloops Food Policy Council also received additional community grant funding of about $33,000 total to take on projects this year.

The money will go towards special projects, operational costs, and capital spending that addresses social programs and issues that the city has targeted in their social plan or in council’s strategic goal of livability.

The city’s Social Plan was released in 2009 and has elements that fall under seven main themes:

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• housing and homelessness
• safe places, alternative transportation, and environmental health
• youth issues
• aboriginal community
• building social agencies and community capacity
• children and families
• health and addictions

The city received 19 applications for the grants and the funding was allocated based on recommendations of the Social Planning Engagement Group.