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Ray Redfern and Redfern Farm Services announce $125,000 to benefit Assiniboine Community College in December 2022.
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Redfern gives ACC next funding boost

Ray Redfern’s company marked its 50th anniversary with a donation to ag education

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Most people receive gifts on major anniversaries. Ray Redfern of Redfern Farm Services viewed the business’s 50th anniversary as an opportunity to give. A donation of $125,000 marked the southwestern Manitoba company’s golden jubilee. It is bound for Assiniboine Community College and its multi-million-dollar Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture. Why it matters: Assiniboine Community College says its planned
Jim Cornelius visits with Victoria Loki and her baby, Cecilia, in South Sudan in 2015.
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Always on mission

Outgoing Canadian Foodgrains Bank executive director Jim Cornelius reflects on a career of international development

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The food aid was two months late. Niger was in the grip of drought and for many complicated reasons, the food aid the Canadian Foodgrains Bank had ordered had not reached the village Jim Cornelius was visiting that morning. He sat under a tree with a woman and her child. As she told him they
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New charitable foundation launched by SeedMaster

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Saskatchewan manufacturer, SeedMaster, is establishing a philanthropic foundation to mark its 10th anniversary. The foundation, Social Entrepreneurship by Design, invites community fundraising groups in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta and the U.S. Midwest to apply for grants ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. “Instead of just applying SED money to a fundraiser’s bottom line, the funds will
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Time has come to stop always

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Nicole Blyth is involved. The vivacious farm girl from MacGregor has volunteered with community groups and at school, and jumped at just about every 4-H leadership opportunity that’s come her way. Volunteering is a way to meet people, have fun, and learn new things, says Blyth, a Brandon University student planning to focus on rural
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Province To Fund Youth For Sandbag Cleanup

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The province will spend $3.2 million to create jobs for up to 500 students and youth who will be part of teams that will do flood protection, recovery and cleanup work in communities affected by flooding, Premier Greg Selinger announced June 3. “We recognize that flood-affected communities need workers to assist with ongoing flood protection,
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Finding And Keeping Volunteers

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April 10 to 16 is National Volunteer Week. Maybe you’re involved with one of the many organizations which benefit from the over two billion hours spent annually in Canada on volunteer work. If so, you know what a struggle it is to get and keep volunteers. Statistics Canada’s several National Surveys of Non-Profit and Voluntary
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Volunteer Together As A Family

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If you already have a full schedule, it might be difficult to see how you can become a volunteer, even if you want to help solve community problems. But volunteering is something families often find worthwhile when they do it together. Family volunteering can be done by the whole family or by one parent and

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