About The Linden Woods Community Foundation

The Linden Woods Community Foundation is a registered charity, incorporated in 1992 pursuant to the Manitoba Corporations Act. It works with the Linden Woods Community Association and the Linden Woods Community Centre to serve the residents of Linden Woods.

The purpose of the Foundation, as stated in the Articles of Incorporation, is: To solicit and receive donations, gifts, and/or bequests to invest same and to fund qualified donees withing the meaning of the Income Tax Act of Canada for the purposes of fostering and supporting the operation, acquisition, conduct, maintenance and management without pecuniary gain of projects for encouraging and establishing educational, scholarship and research programs, cultural, artistic, architectural and recreational programs and health and housing programs for the promotion of the mental, moral, ohysical and social well being and development of all of the residents of the area of Winnipeg commonly known as Linden Woods and all those who may benefit thereby without discrimination as to age, sex, race, creed, colour, nationality or place of origin and in furtherance of such purpose, to acquire by purchase, lease, devise, gift and otherwise, title to any lands, buildings, easements or property, both real and personal of any description which may be used in connection therewith.

If, upon the winding up or dissolution of the Foundation, there remains any undisbursed property, the Articles of Incorporation provide for the transfer of such assets to the Winnipeg Foundation.

The Foundation is governed by the Board of Directors of the Linden Woods Community Centre.

The Foundation played a pivotal role in raising funds for the construction of the community centre in Linden Woods. There was a door-to-door canvass in 1995 throughout Linden Woods which raised approximately $100,000 and another one in 1998 which raised an additional $13,000.