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MESSAGE FROM
THE DIRECTOR

I keep a card tacked up on the wall beside my desk The Wayne-Coleman family recently established “The
that seems to shine a bit more brightly at this time of Heart of Georgian Bay Community Forward Fund” at
year – as if it knows that spring seems a little distant Huronia Community Foundation, and that is exactly
and I might need a reminder. It’s a Chinese proverb what our community of donors and supporters share
that reads: “If you keep a green bough in your heart, in common – you are heart-felt and heart-forward.
the singing bird will come”.
Thank you for your generosity to all those supported
As I look at the past year, it’s so clear that ours is by CLH and the many ways you find to do so. You
a community that keeps finding ways to keep an make our hearts sing.
optimistic and generous view of the world, and has an
understanding of what can be done to help each other Sincerely,
thrive. You keep an eye out for one another and take
action.

Whether it’s walking this way or curling, or making
sure we max out the opportunity for a matched gift Sue-Ellen Boyes
Director, Revenue Development
on Giving Tuesday, creating new ways to encourage CLH Foundation
progress, or finding a means to become a monthly
donor, you forge a path that makes life better for
others, and provide wonderful examples of what
together we can accomplish. I hope you’ll find
plentiful evidence of this in the pages of this edition of
Connected!

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