Articles tagged "ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē Foundation"
ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē fundraiser to light way for new childcare centre
October 18, 2023
Dress up with your kids, enjoy a matinee, then parade downtown Vernon with glow up lanterns and a stilt walker. An upcoming event aims to cast a glow on childrenās faces while also lighting a path for a new childcare centre at ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ēās Vernon campus. The ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē Foundation is hosting Glow UP: A Matinee, Masquerade and Lantern Light Up Saturday, Oct. 28. Participants can make their own lanterns at an upcoming workshop hosted by local artists at ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē Saturday, Oct. 21 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.&nb...
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Empowering Tomorrow: Rick and Yasmin Thorpe and Friends Scholarship Celebrates Future Leaders
October 4, 2023
The Rick and Yasmin Thorpe and Friends Scholarship continues to be a launchpad for South Okanagan high school graduates as they begin their educational journey at ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē. This year, Mackenzie Lucier and Kendall Pennington from Princess Margaret Secondary, Eva Braam from Summerland Secondary and Ollie Jaques from Penticton Secondary have each been awarded $2,500. The scholarship annually champions students who combine academic achievement with community involvement. "These young individuals are ou...
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Plant a Seed Day fundraiser sprouts an impressive $66,000 in gifts for the new Sunflower Childcare Centre on ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē's Vernon Campus
May 17, 2023
ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē Foundation is thrilled to announce the success of Plant a Seed Day, a fun-filled, family-friendly fundraiser that, thanks to generous community support, raised $66,000 for the Sunflower Childcare Centre. The funds will be put towards equipment, furnishings, supplies, and a creative outdoor space where kids can learn and play. Event guests had the opportunity to experience child-led yoga, sunflower-themed art classes, country line dancing, and a delicious lemonade crawl ā all made possible thanks to generous sponsors: Kal T...
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New ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē student housing, childcare centre on target to open in 2024 in Vernon
April 21, 2023
When she decided to attend ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē, student-parent Sarina Parsons was faced with the challenge of finding childcare while balancing her course schedule. She says it added stress at a time where she wished she could have been more focused on her learning. In just over a year, students like Sarina will have access to childcare and on-campus living options at ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ēās Vernon campus, when doors open at a new mass-timber student housing building currently under construction. The 100-bed student housing project and Sunflo...
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New ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē student housing centre on target to open in 2024 in Salmon Arm
April 21, 2023
Finding affordable housing isnāt just a challenge in the big city ā it can be difficult in smaller, more rural communities as well. For students like Dylan Taylor, who are also focused on completing post-secondary education and entering the workforce, access to housing is transformational. āThere are many pressures on students already right now, so having a way to access a place to live on-campus takes away a huge amount of stress and makes it possible to focus on my education,ā says Taylor, an Arts student at the Salmon Arm c...
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Bridging the way to success: Emil Anderson Construction gives $75,000 to modernize ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ēās Civil Engineering Technology Program
April 17, 2023
If you walk past ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ēās Kelowna campus on a weekday afternoon, youāre sure to see Civil Engineering Technology students spread out across the grounds, gathering environmental data using surveying equipment. This skill is essential to their education and will one day help them shape our built environments. Thanks to a generous $75,000 gift from Emil Anderson Construction, students will have increased access to state-of-the-art surveying equipment to train on by fall of 2023. āWe are proud to support ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ēās Civil Engi...
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ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē Foundation chairās book launch supports students in need
March 27, 2023
Honouring the past and supporting the future: Connie Denesiukās new book has ambitious goals. The Chair of the ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē Foundation Board is launching a book next month about a story close to her heart, with the hope it will benefit the community around her. āTil Papa Returns; Surviving as a child refugee in WWII is the true story of Alfred Columbus, the youngest of eight children and father to Denesiuk. Alfred was learning how to farm the land their family had worked for more than 200 years, following advice and guidance from h...
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Watt a gift! ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ēās Electronics Engineering Technology Program gets an $80,000 boost from a local engineer
March 6, 2023
Yael Cohen, a Vernon-based communications engineer, recently donated $80,000 in state-of-the-art electronic equipment to ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ēās Electronics Engineering Technology program. The gift included hundreds of electrical components that will be used by program instructors to build in-class electrical circuits and test demos and will be made available to students for use in their end-of-term capstone projects. āI was fortunate to receive numerous scholarships when I was in school, and I wanted to pay it forward,ā says Cohen, an...
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Health care students in the South Okanagan Similkameen are about to breathe a sigh of relief thanks to a new bursary fund
February 23, 2023
Local philanthropists Yasmin and Rick Thorpe have partnered with Summerlandās Penny Lane Legacy Fund to create a $50,000 bursary fund to help bolster the future of health care in the South Okanagan Similkameen. The Caring for Health Care Students Fund will provide $750 - $1,750 awards for eligible students studying at ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ēās Penticton Campus. āWe know if we educate healthcare professionals in Penticton, thereās a good chance theyāll stay and work in the region,ā says Yasmin John Thorpe. āWe want to help increase the numb...
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Local couple's Okanagan Dream Rally contribution is a dream come true for ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē students
February 14, 2023
Jason and Laura Norup-Boyer are passionate about education; thatās why when they participated in the auction at the 2022 Okanagan Dream Rally, they requested their $40,000 contribution go to bursaries for ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē students. The Okanagan Dream Rally is a well-established fundraising event hosted by the August Family Foundation. The Rally, which has raised upwards of $3 million for local charities since its inception, pairs special needs children with high-end cars and drivers for the day. Last yearās event drew more than 50,000 spe...
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ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē Foundation distributes over $450,000 in student awards in under two weeks
December 6, 2022
The holiday spirit came early for ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē students who were the recipients of 426 bursary, scholarship and awards this past month, which totalled over $450,000. Students also had the chance to meet the donors who support the bursaries, scholarships and awards at receptions held at each of ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ēās Vernon, Kelowna and Penticton campuses in November. Each event included an Indigenous welcome, student and donor speakers and most significantly, time for all invited guests to connect and celebrate a shared commitment to ongo...
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Prospera gives big in support of Women in Trades at ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē
November 28, 2022
More women will get a chance to lace up their work boots and take the first step in a career in trades, thanks to a recent $79,660 gift from Prospera to a program at ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē that has already trained over 1,300 women since it was founded. The Women in Trades Training program was created to remove barriers for women interested in pursuing trades education and help meet the communityās surging need for skilled trades professionals. āThese bursaries and added equipment provide opportunities for women to pursue trades tr...
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Thorpe and Friends Scholarship recognizes two ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē students
October 26, 2022
Local students say the generosity of two prominent Penticton philanthropists is helping them take the next steps in their education. Since 2006, former MLA Rick Thorpe and his wife Yasmin John-Thorpe, along with their friends, have given more than $160,000 in scholarships to students in need at ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ēās Penticton Campus. Two of this yearās recipients, Wylie Rowan and Mattias Van Bergeyk, received $2,500 to put toward their education. Both students are Summerland Secondary School grads in their first year of studies at Oka...
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TD gives $85,000 to help kids and newcomers access ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ēās Indigenous Garden
October 18, 2022
Hawthorn, wolf willow, and sage are among the traditional plants growing in the garden on the hillside at ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ēās Vernon campus, which this year was visited by more than 250 local school children, thanks to generous support from TD Bank Group. TDās gift, made earlier in 2022, is funding tours of the K'nmaÄŗka SenqĆ¢Äŗten - Kalamalka Indigenous garden for children and newcomers to Canada. The garden is located on ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ēās Vernon campus. ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē has already received a portion of the funding; the remainder will be...
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Thomas Klein
September 1, 2022
Even as a kid I knew I would go into the trades. An office job wouldnāt work for me because my ADHD makes it hard for me to sit still for too long, and my reading and writing arenāt the best.ā āOne of my high school teachers got me into sheet metal. The school helped me enroll in ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ēās Sheet Metal Worker Foundation Certificate program. The program allowed me to learn a lot of new techniques, test out ideas, and try new things. When I first found out that I got th...
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Sophie Wilson
September 1, 2022
āIām grateful that I had the opportunity to study at ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ēās Penticton campus. My professors were fantastic, and learning close to home allowed me to spend more time with my daughter. I completed a Business Administration diploma this past fall. Iāve tried to go to school before, but financial insecurity always ended up holding me back. I would end up having to work part-time, and then I would end up working full time and then I would end up having to leave school alto...
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