News and Blogs from the Mission Community Foundation

In February of 1994, Charlie McPherson, President of the Lifetime Learning Centre Society, wrote to Mission Community Foundation advising that the Society wished to start a fund. At that time in our history, the Foundation offered a matching donor program and their...

Hollister General Fund In the early years, Vic & Hilda Hollister were very involved in the development of the Mission Community Foundation.  Vic sat on the Board of Directors, as well as Asset Development, Investment and Scholarship committees for several years. Vic &...

Monies from this fund are used to provide grants to groups like Mission Senior Secondary’s Dry Grad committee to assist in planning safe ways for students to celebrate. Beaton’s concern about the growing drug and alcohol abuse and addiction in our youth led him to...

The Friends of the Library Fund, created in 1994 with a generous donation from Vic Hollister, an active member of the Friends of the Library, a volunteer group that supports the Mission library. This fund distributes monies each year to the Friends of the Library...