May is always a busy month for Almost Home, with two major fundraising events happening within a few weeks of one another.  Volunteers outdo themselves year after year organizing sponsors, soliciting prizes and auction items, selling tickets and taking care of all the details necessary to ensure that the events will not just be financially successful but also FUN for those who attend.
 

Assante Financial Management – Fenlon Division Endowment Fund

Here are the responses collected from our April online survey
Question:  Among all social issues (such as crime, health, housing, etc.) how important is Poverty in our community? 
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     “The Andy Fund of Kingston will live on!”, the audience was assured.  It was on April 15, at the group’s last fund-raising event, the Great Furniture Revival.  The Founding President, Ruth George, was telling supporters that The Andy Fund of Kingston Endowment Fund had already been created within the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area.  The well-known volunteer group was retiring after nearly a quarter century of raising funds for cancer-related projects, she explained, but this work would be continued by this donor-designa

Chez Piggy and Pan Chancho Restaurants will host their annual breakfasts to increase the Zal and Rose School Breakfast Fund, held within the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area.  This fund annually provides funds to the Food Sharing Project in Kingston and area schools, which provides breakfasts, lunch and healthy snacks to over 2000 children on a daily basis.  Come out for a delicions breakfast supporting a great cause.
 
Breakfast at Chez Piggy is:
Tuesday December 8th from 7am - 9am
 
Breakfast at Pan Chancho is:

Be sure to check our website in mid-September for all of the information on our fall granting round.  Application forms will be on the website, along with deadlines and our granting criteria.