What We Support
Making a difference, with you, in the Eastern Townships.
Doing More Together
At Townshippers Foundation, our goal is simple: to help great ideas take root and thrive.
Thanks to donations from community members like you, we’ve supported more than 65 grassroots projects across the Eastern Townships. Some are small and focused; others grow into lasting programs. Every one of them improves the quality of life in our region.
We fund projects that align with one or more of our three focus areas:
Community Care
Helping people live well — at every stage of life.
Providing services for caregivers and seniors, promoting mental and physical health, supporting social services and health initiatives, and helping those in our community to develop skills and resiliency are areas we are proud to support.
Breakfast Club at ETSB
The grant helped reopen the breakfast program at Brome-Missisquoi Campus, providing vulnerable students with a healthy start to their day. Improvements were made to the serving space, equipment, and food handling practices.
Townships Sun
Support went toward Townships Youth Voices II Arts and Writing Competition (2023–2024), which gives young people in the region a platform to share their experiences.
(also under Belonging & Culture)
Belonging & Culture
Celebrating who we are, together.
Arts, cultural development, history and heritage — this is where the Eastern Townships comes to life. These projects strengthen community identity, create space for connection between generations, unites the community around cultural development, and preserve our shared history.
Borderline Players
With support from the Foundation, the troupe staged live theatre in Stanstead, bringing quality entertainment to the English-speaking community and surrounding area.
Centre des arts & FestiMusique Stanstead
This grant helped sustain cultural programming at the Centre des arts and Stanstead’s FestiMusique, aiming to restore the town’s reputation as a cultural hub while offering free or low-cost entertainment to residents and visitors.
Creations Perkins
Support went toward artist Danny Perkins’ attempt to create the world’s longest painting, using a unique technique inspired in part by Riopelle.
Cultures du cœur Estrie
The grant provided resources for inclusive, creativity-focused activities led by professional artists and musicians. These sessions built skills, encouraged social connection, and brought English- and French-speaking participants together.
Knowlton Literary Festival
The Foundation contributed to the 13th annual literary festival, the only English-language literary festival between Montreal and Quebec City, in 2023.
Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN)
Funding made it possible for QAHN (a province-wide non-profit that preserves and promotes the history, heritage, and culture of English-speaking Quebec) to produce the documentary film series Scandal Makers (2023–2024).
Renaissance Manoir St-Francis
This initiative received support to host cultural events and concerts for people of all ages in the community.
Richmond County Historical Society
The grant allowed the Society to set up a permanent exhibit space at the museum, showcasing local history through artifacts and documents.
St. Patrick’s Society of Richmond
Support contributed to the 2023 Richmond Irish Heritage Festival.
Townshippers’ Association
Support helped expand youth projects, building partnerships that create educational, social, and career opportunities for English-speaking youth and newcomers. Townshippers’ is a non-profit community group dedicated to strengthening the vitality of the region’s English-speaking population.
Townships Sun
(also under Community Care — see description there)
Empowerment & Success
Creating opportunities for the next generation.
Infusing resources into activities that support literacy, student enrichment, and information access can help individuals of all ages reach their potential — especially in underserved communities. These education, youth, and research initiatives empower our community.
Bibliothèque Lennoxville Library
The grant provided funds to purchase games, toys, and other resources for community activities.
CABMN Youth Centre
Support allowed the centre to continue its new after-school dance program for children ages 5–12. The program, piloted in 2022, quickly became popular, with 15–20 youth attending each week.
Club Explore
This initiative received a grant to expand science lab opportunities for homeschooling youth in the Eastern Townships.
Colby-Curtis Museum
The grant supported cultural programming for the 2023 gardens-themed exhibition, which featured photography, archival material, and artwork from the museum’s collection.
L’harmonie de Knowlton Harmony Band
The Foundation contributed to three initiatives: buying new music to attract and retain young players, upgrading sound equipment for concerts, and repairing a damaged timpani. (also under Belonging & Culture)
Parkview Elementary School: 175th Anniversary Committee
Support helped the committee mark 175 years of English-language education in Granby through events and outreach highlighting the school’s history. (also under Belonging & Culture)
Phelps Aide Phelps Helps
This grant made it possible to run a free one-week STEM camp for youth ages 10–13, easing their transition back to school while building confidence and local pride.
Richmond Fair
The Foundation’s support went toward creating a family-friendly space to better serve children and parents during the Richmond Fair and other community events.
Townshippers’ Association
Support helped expand youth projects, building partnerships that create educational, social, and career opportunities for English-speaking youth and newcomers. Townshippers’ is a non-profit community group dedicated to strengthening the vitality of the region’s English-speaking population.
Partners
Not all great groups have charitable status, but that shouldn’t stop them from raising funds. That’s why we also partner with organizations that fall into similar grant criteria, doing work that aligns with our mission, helping them accept donations and issue charitable tax receipts.
Some of our recent community partners include:
- Army, Navy, Air Force Veterans in Canada (Sherbrooke)
- Artistes Georgeville-Fitch Bay
- Borderline Players
- Coop Gym Sante Sutton
- Festival de Jazz de Sutton
- Greenwood Cemetery
- Heritage Sutton
- Knowlton Literary Festival
- La Brimbalante
- Les Arts à la Montagne
- L’Harmonie des Saisons
- Men’s Shed
- Milby Cemetery Association
- Musee Copp’s Ferry
- Sargent’s Bay Yacht Club
- St. Patrick’s Society Richmond
- Stanstead County Agricultural Society Ayers Cliff
- Friends of Studio Georgeville
- Sutton Junction Community
- Townships Sun
Want to help us do even more?
Your contribution helps local people bring their ideas to life.