Wings Over the Rockies Nature Festival Society is seeking applications for the Ross MacDonald Memorial Legacy Fund.

Get financial support for your project/initiative. Submit your grant application by October 31. Are you a registered non-profit organization or registered charity serving one or more of the following communities in the Columbia Valley:
• Radium Hot Springs;
• District of Invermere;
• Village of Canal Flats;,
• Electoral Area F and Area G of the Regional District East Kootenay (includes unincorporated communities of Spillimacheen, Brisco, Edgewater, Panorama Resort Village, Wilmer, Windermere, Fairmont Hot Springs).

The Wings Over the Rockies Festival, established in 1997, promotes both immediate and enduring efforts for the benefit of birds, wildlife, and their habitats in the Upper Columbia Valley.

In 2024, Wings Over the Rockies Nature Festival Society created the Ross MacDonald Memorial Legacy Fund in memory of Ross MacDonald. Ross passed away in June 2023. Right up until his last days he remained a highly dedicated supporter of Wings Over the Rockies and its mission.

This legacy fund provides funding for projects in the Columbia Valley that support community environmental education and/or land-based conservation such as habitat restoration, maintaining or improving ecological conditions, or species at risk protection.

If you have a project that meets one or more of the Ross MacDonald Memorial Legacy Fund’s objectives, please submit your application using the Columbia Valley Community Foundation website.

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