Weatherdon Fund for Early and Lifelong Nutrition
Why this Fund was created
Brian and Virginia Weatherdon chose to create this fund with the Burlington Community Foundation to strategically address Family and Lifelong Nutrition in connection with the development of personal/household food skills, healthy social connection, and opportunity to share such experience among family and friends, thus easing hunger and instilling confidence presently and for future years and generations.
What this Fund is for
Our focus aims beyond food charity to train vulnerable families and households, to enhance nutrition now, year-round, and inter-generationally. Our focus on family- and child-nutrition has provided funds for cooperative training programs (purchasing, preparing, complementing foods to inexpensively enhance nutrition), also to teach home/community gardening, gifting equipment to a community hub of such training, also supporting a community worker central to such initiatives. In addition, the fund supports seniors’ nutrition and socialization: eg. a mid-week seniors’ lunch program. Such grants as they are made, help guide and inform future funding decisions. While immediate food-relief remains vital in our community, this fund aims specifically to advance simple and strategic food-skills in home and community, which can be shared and replicated easily among friends and next generations.
Who Benefits from this Fund
Children, Families, Singles and Seniors, residing in/near Burlington and Halton Region.
Why this Fund was created
Fundholders, Brian and Virginia Weatherdon, considered the legacy of creating a fund with the Burlington Community Foundation and opportunities it would create for future generations, “Our children and future generations can be involved if they choose, and this carries forward the legacy of values we want to express. Yet when family may not be involved, BCF can continue the mandate that has shaped the fund.”
What this Fund is for
The Fund supports children who are hungry and in need; families in times of dislocation and transition; provide skills-based training to parents or kids; and help seniors who are lonely, marginalized and living in social and food poverty.
Who Benefits from this Fund
Children and youth in need in our community.
How to Donate to this Fund
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