AHL Abbotsford Heat: Heat Foundation Presents $40,000 in Grants

Abbotsford, BC – The Abbotsford Heat and the Abbotsford Heat Foundation are proud to announce the 2012 grant recipients. Nearly $40,000 was presented by the Heat Foundation today to 13 deserving organizations that share in the foundation’s pillars of improving children and youth’s health/wellness, education and fitness, development of amateur and grassroots sports and repressing risk related behaviour such as drug use, gang involvement and crime.

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For Immediate Release

Monday, June 18, 2012

 

Abbotsford, BC – The Abbotsford Heat and the Abbotsford Heat Foundation are proud to announce the 2012 grant recipients. Nearly $40,000 was presented by the Heat Foundation today to 13 deserving organizations that share in the foundation’s pillars of improving children and youth’s health/wellness, education and fitness, development of amateur and grassroots sports and repressing risk related behaviour such as drug use, gang involvement and crime.

 

Over the past two years the Abbotsford Heat Foundation has granted $50,000, with the total amount granted in 2011-12 being four times as much as in the 2010-11 season. Funds are generated through donation and the Heat Foundation’s annual golf tournament; this year the Calgary Flames donated $25,000 to the Heat Foundation.

 

In addition to granting monies to local organizations the Abbotsford Heat ...