Second round of Aviva Community Fund competition begins
The first batch of semi-finalists for this year’s Aviva Community Fund competition was announced Monday. (See the list here.)
For this year’s campaign, the insurer is doubling its 2009 pledge of $500,000 by offering $1 million to community initiatives across Canada.
Voting for this round ends on November 5 and the ultimate winner(s) will be announced on January 25, 2011.
First launched in October 2009, the inaugural Aviva Community Fund asked Canadians to submit their ideas and vote for causes on the competition’s online portal – AvivaCommunityFund.org. Canadians overwhelmingly answered the call, proposing over 2,000 ideas and casting more than two million votes in support of causes from every province and territory. In the end, eight winners were selected and the Aviva Community Fund’s $500,000 pledge was immediately put to work on projects such as building a kitchen at a youth centre in Moose Jaw, constructing much-needed playgrounds in Burnaby and Brantford, and building a lodge at a camp for kids touched by chronic illness in Prince Edward Island.
Ideas for this years’ campaign can be submitted to the site and can be entered in any of the following categories:
- Neighbourhood
- Youth
- Education
- Health
- Well-being
- Environment
- Culture
- Other ideas that don’t fit into these categories, but can improve a community
