The WindsorEssex Community Foundation Celebrates Investing $1.1 Million
On Tuesday, November 4,2025 the WindsorEssex Community Foundation (WECF) proudly hosted its 2025 Annual Meeting and Grant Awards Ceremony, celebrating the distribution of $1.1 million in grants to charitable organizations across Windsor and Essex County.
This milestone achievement was made possible thanks to the generous contributions of the Foundation’s donors and community partners.
Held at The Windsor Club, the event honored the dedication and leadership of WECF’s Board of Directors, staff, and community partners. The Foundation also welcomed new fund holders who joined over the past year and recognized this year’s Community Impact Grant recipients. Attendees reflected on the Foundation’s extensive community investments—both from the past year and throughout its more than 42 years of inspiring philanthropy across the region.
“The WindsorEssex Community Foundation is honoured to support local organizations and the essential programs that make Windsor and Essex County a better place for all. Congratulations to all of our Community Impact Grant recipients! We look forward to seeing the positive, lasting change these projects will create in our community.” – Lisa Kolody, Executive Director of WECF
The WECF remains deeply committed to building a strong, vibrant, and resilient Windsor-Essex. With heartfelt appreciation for its donors, volunteers, and supporters, the Foundation continues to champion philanthropy and invest in the people and places that make our community thrive.
WINDSORESSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 2025 COMMUNITY IMPACT GRANTS
- Arts Council – Windsor and Region’s New Voices Program
- The Corporation of the Town of Tecumseh’s Tecumseh Votes 2026 Municipal Election Voter Turnout Initiative
- Downtown Windsor Business Improvement Association’s Good Greens Food Reclamation Program
- Essex Centre Business Improvement Area’s Essex Centre Downtown Parkette Revitalization
- Kiwanis Music Festival Windsor-Essex County
- Windsor Jewish Community Centre’s Collective Memory: A Holocaust Mapping Project
- YMCA of Southwestern Ontario’s Camp Henry Indigenous and Vulnerable Youth Program
The WindsorEssex Community Foundation (WECF) is a perpetual community trust for philanthropic purposes. It exists to manage donors’ legacy funds and make grants to support local community programs. Through grant making activities, the WECF is able to establish partnerships to assist a broad range of community organizations. In addition to this, the WECF also leads Inspiration 100, Random Act of Kindness Day, and the Vital Signs Program.
