The Foundation's new five-year strategic plan
focuses on building capacity in primary healthcare delivery and
investing in community development.
STELLARTON, NS, July 10,
2024 /CNW/ - The Sobey Foundation today
announced more than $8.3 million in
funding over the next five years for five initiatives aimed at
building capacity in primary healthcare delivery and investing in
community development in Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
This marks a new era of giving for The Foundation which, in
2021, embarked on an intensive strategic review aimed at sharpening
its focus. This extensive process has allowed The Foundation to
align around the objective of fostering transformative change in
Pictou County, its home region.
This inaugural five-year plan is built around five strategic
partnerships The Sobey Foundation has formed with organizations
dedicated to building capacity for primary healthcare delivery and
investing in community development and sustainability. Working with
the substantial assets that already exist in the region, such as
the Pictou waterfront, these
partnerships together offer a holistic approach.
The five strategic partners are:
Citizens for a Healthy Pictou County
VON Pictou County
The deCoste Entertainment Centre Society
Pictou County Partnership
The Ship Hector Society
"Pictou County is our home, it's where it all started," said
Frank Sobey, chair of The Sobey
Foundation. "Our roots here go back generations. I still see the
people I grew up with – they are my neighbours, my friends. It's
important that we look after each other, and I am grateful to be
able to offer The Foundation's support."
The in-depth review also saw the Foundation's Trustees sharpen
the funding focus in order to ensure The Foundation's work will
have a long-lasting impact. After careful consideration, The
Foundation has identified the following five initiatives as funding
priorities for this first five-year phase:
Citizens for a Healthy Pictou
County
Initiative: Funding support will help Citizens
for a Healthy Pictou County build capacity to enhance its work
attracting and retaining physicians, other healthcare workers, and
medical students.
VON Pictou County
Initiative: The partnership
will help VON Pictou County meet increased demands by focusing on
healthcare transformation through the use of improved
technology.
The deCoste Entertainment Centre
Society
Initiative: The funding partnership will
enable critical enhancements to the new deCoste, now under
construction, and allow programming expansion.
Pictou County Partnership
Initiative: Funding
has been earmarked for the Pictou County Partnership to enable the
organization to increase its capacity to support the community
impact sector.
Ship Hector Society
Initiative: Funding is to
support the revitalization of the Ship Hector, the replica of the
historic ship that brought the Scottish settlers to Nova Scotia in 1773.
"The Foundation is undertaking this first phase of the five-year
plan in our own backyard with the vision of creating best practices
that will be applied in the next phase to our work across the
country," said Frank Sobey. "We are
committed to providing support to the organizations and people
dedicated to serving others."
The Sobey Foundation was established in 1982 by Frank H. Sobey, his wife Irene, their sons Bill,
David and Donald and daughter, Dianne. Since then, The Foundation
has provided funding to a wide scope of initiatives across a broad
geographic range, supporting countless communities and
organizations.
SOURCE The Sobey Foundation