Sask K of C Charitable Foundation

SEE THE NEED: Who in Your Community Could Use Our Help?
Sometimes a great charitable project doesn’t begin with an application form.
It begins with someone asking a simple question:

Who in our community could use our help?
As Knights, we are in a unique position to ask that question.
Our Councils and members are active in parishes and communities throughout Saskatchewan. We know our pastors. We know people working with youth and families. We know volunteers and community organizations. We see people responding to hunger and other needs. We know ministries and organizations doing remarkable work, sometimes with very limited resources.

All of us should know about the Sask K of C Charitable Foundation.
Each year, the Foundation awards more than $300,000 in grants to organizations, groups and clubs engaged in charitable work throughout Saskatchewan. Just as importantly, the Foundation specifically encourages Knights of Columbus Councils throughout the province to assist and encourage eligible organizations to apply. [saskkofc.foundation]
That’s where you and your Council can make a difference.

Council leaders: look around your community.
Is there an organization helping families who are struggling?
Is there a youth ministry or Christian camp with an opportunity to reach more young people?
Is there a project supporting our faith, encouraging vocations or bringing people together?
Is there an initiative building stronger relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people?
Is there a local charitable organization doing good work that could accomplish even more with some additional help?
If someone comes to mind, start a conversation.
Ask what they are trying to accomplish. Ask what needs they are seeing. Ask whether there is a project they would undertake if additional resources were available.
Our Councils don’t need to write the application. Our opportunity is to open the door: identify the need, start the conversation, build the relationship and encourage the organization to apply.

And you don’t have to be a Grand Knight to start that conversation.
Every Brother Knight knows people and organizations in his community.
If you know a ministry, charity or community organization doing important work or facing a need, tell your Council about it. That conversation may uncover an opportunity none of us knew existed.
Our goal isn’t for Councils to decide who should receive a grant. The Grants and Bursaries Committee does that.
Our opportunity is to help discover needs that might otherwise go unnoticed and encourage worthwhile organizations to tell us their story.
So here’s our challenge for October:

ONE COUNCIL. ONE CONVERSATION. ONE OPPORTUNITY.
Council leaders: Identify a ministry, need, or group in your community and start a conversation.
Brother Knights: Look around your community. If you see a need or know an organization doing important work, bring it to your Council’s attention.
Community organizations: If Foundation assistance might help you address an important need, explore the grant opportunities available through the Sask K of C Charitable Foundation.

One conversation might lead to one opportunity.

And one opportunity might make a meaningful difference in someone’s life.