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Pride Fest Receives $80K In Funding For Programs And Services
Foundation: Ontario Trillium Foundation
When Windsor, Ontario's Windsor-Essex Pride Fest was forced to cancel its annual festival in 2021 due to COVID, the LGBTQ community lost funding.
But thanks to an $80,100 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation's Resilient Communities Fund, the festival will once again be able to take place in 2022, the Windsor Star reports.
"It was a godsend that we got these grants," says Wendi Nicholson, president of Windsor-Essex Pride Fest.
"Over the last two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the organization by the way we deliver our programs and services to the community and having the financial means to be able to provide these programs and services," she says.
The grant allowed Pride Fest staff to make technology upgrades that kept vital programs available virtually and to purchase supplies to allow for safe, in-person meetings when restrictions are allowed.
The organization used the money to purchase equipment and software for health and safety training, supplies, and materials, online program consultant services, program marketing, office furniture, and portable equipment such as tents, PPE masks, hand sanitizer, cleaning supplies, and more.
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