The province has begun a donation matching campaign for sport and recreation programs.
Culture Minister Ron Orr says this will help organizations recover from the pandemic and get more people involved in sports around the province.
“We’re contributing a budget of $350,000 to this matching program. Before, non-profits could seek donations even though they didn’t have a charitable number to give tax receipts. By going through the donation fund program with the government, they could offer official tax receipts for donations and now we’re going to match that with them.”
Orr says they want this to address the decline in opportunities of sport, physical activity and recreation programming.
“Partly because of restrictions, partly because of a lack of volunteers. Hopefully this will incentivise many organizations to actually offer either new programs or restart programs that had closed down. If those opportunities are there, then we think that young people especially will jump on board and want to get out and want to get involved again.”
The matching of donations will happen from now until August 30.
Here’s a link to the donation matching website.
Our interview with the minister can be found below.
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