Our History

In 1994, the Shuswap Community Foundation began with a $2,000 “organizational grant” from the then District of Salmon Arm and a “Founders Fund” of over $70,000 contributed by more than 60 residents and families who embraced the foundation concept.

 

The Shuswap Foundation made its first grant of $2,000 from earnings on endowed funds in 1996.  Each year following, the foundation has returned an increased level of grants from fund earnings back to the community.  A significant milestone was reached in 2011 when the Foundation surpassed the $1 Million figure in total grants to the community since 1996. 

 

The Shuswap Community Foundation serves the “Shuswap Areas” of the Columbia Shuswap Regional District.  The Shuswap includes Malakwa and Sicamous in the East to the South Shuswap and the North Shuswap in the West.  The area also reaches South through the Salmon River Valley to Falkland.