Stampede Lotteries Helping Communities

Calgary North Hill Lions Club

The Calgary North Hill Lions Club is a part of Lions Clubs International, a network of 1.3 million men and women in 205 countries and geographic areas who work together to answer the needs that challenge communities around the world.

Inn from the Cold
Inn from the Cold provides a safe place where homeless families and others in need can begin to rebuild their lives. With a donation from Stampede Lotteries and the North Hill Lions Club, Inn from the Cold received a new bus in 2009, ensuring that homeless and community children are able to find stability in designated schools equipped to meet their unique needs and situations. Every dollar invested matters and goes towards helping families create hopeful futures.

Brenda Stafford Foundation
Making the decision to leave an abusive home is hard enough, let alone at Christmas. Each year, a donation from the Calgary Stampede Lotteries and the North Hill Lions Club supplies a complete Christmas – gifts, Christmas tree, decorations, a turkey and all the trimmings – for several families taking shelter in the Brenda Stafford Centre.

The Disabled Sailing Association of Alberta
Each Calgary Stampede Lotteries ticket purchased helps deserving local organizations such as the Disabled Sailing Association of Alberta thrive. In the past two years the Lions have purchased modified sailboats for the Association, allowing people with disabilities to continue to enjoy sailing. Additional funds contributed were allocated for boat maintenance and operation costs.

Additional recipients
AARC – Alberta Adolescent Recovery Program
CLERC – recycling eyeglasses for Third World countries
LFC Guide Dog Canada – training service dogs for the blind, hard of hearing and the disabled
Lions Calvacade for Diabetes – traveling diabetes resource program
QUEST - school-based youth development programs teaching life and citizenship skills 

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Kinsmen Club of Calgary

The Kinsmen Club of Calgary is a service organization made up of active community volunteers. Working together, members enhance the quality of life in their communities by promoting service, fellowship, positive values and national pride. The Kinsmen’s motto is "Serving the Community's Greatest Needs", which they do by supplying manpower for worthy projects and by raising money to assist organizations that look to them for help.

Enviros Wilderness School Association
With support from Calgary Stampede Lotteries ticket purchases and the Kinsmen Club of Calgary, the Enviros Wilderness School Association provides counseling and treatment for youth ages 12 - 18 with substance abuse issues. Since 1976, the camp has offered a balance between addiction treatment, traditional school and outdoor education to support youth and their families in making positive life changes. 

Hull Child and Family Services
Hull Child and Family Services is a leader in serving children, adults, and families experiencing significant mental health, behavioural and developmental challenges. For almost 50 years, the organization has been helping kids, adults and families achieve success in their lives.

The Calgary Learning Centre
Founded in 1979, The Calgary Learning Centre strives to be a focal point for leadership, innovation and comprehensive services to help children, youth and adults with literacy development, learning and attention difficulties.

Additional recipients
Easter Seals Camp Horizon – Alberta’s leading outdoor recreation facility for individuals of all abilities, including special needs
Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation – supports people with cystic fibrosis

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Rotary Club of Calgary South

The Rotary Club of Calgary is an organization of business, professional, and community leaders who come together through commitment and fellowship to create opportunities and better communities for future generations. They provide countless volunteer hours and over a million dollars a year to local and international service programs.

Aspen Family and Community Network Society
Aspen Family and Community Network Society is one of Calgary’s largest social service agencies supporting children, youth and families in overcoming poverty-related challenges. Donations from Calgary Stampede Lotteries and the Rotary Club of Calgary South have been allocated to the Headspace mobile unit. Headspace is a mobile art piece and bus equipped with items such as books, games, laptops, music, art supplies, sports equipment, educational materials as well as food and beverages for youth. Headspace allows for greater flexibility and creativity to respond to the community need by going to where youth naturally gather and offering programming that involve them directly.

Rotary Flames Foundation for Life
A new alliance between the Rotary Club of Calgary South and the Rotary Club of Calgary Downtown, together with the Calgary Flames Foundation for Life, has pledged $10,000,000 in funding over five years in support of “Reach” medical research projects in Calgary, including the Libin Cardiovascular Institute, Project Neuro-Arm, Ronald McDonald House and the Rotary/Flames Hospice Centre, the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Markin Institute, Alberta Bone and Joint Institute and the Southern Alberta Urology Centre & Chair. Support from Calgary Stampede Lotteries ticket sales provides $200,000 per year towards the overall project budget.

Rotary Challenger Park
The complete Rotary Park is the largest community based project ever undertaken in Alberta. It is the largest barrier-free and all-inclusive facility of its type in Canada. This is an ongoing program for the Rotary Club of Calgary South with contributions from Calgary Stampede Lotteries made each year.

Additional recipients
Breakfast Clubs of Canada
SAIT Scholarship Program
Interfaith Food Bank
Hospice Calgary
The Salvation Army
Providence Child Development Society
Centre for Digestive Mobility
St. Mary’s High School
Universal Rehabilitation Services
Feed the Hungry
Mustard Seed Street Ministry

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Calgary Stampede Foundation

The Calgary Stampede Foundation is a charitable organization that spends over $2.5 million annually to support Stampede youth programs such as The Young Canadians School of the Performing Arts and Stampede School. They are committed to providing Alberta youth with the opportunity to develop strong roots in their culture and heritage through programs that enhance personal growth, citizenship and education. The Foundation has a broad scope and donors are welcome to support endeavours pertaining to the arts, agriculture, the environment and capital improvement projects.

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Calgary Stampede Showband

Through the active fundraising of the Calgary Marching Show Band Association, as part of the Stampede Lotteries Group of Partners, the Calgary Show Band took the Calgary spirit to the Mid-American Competing Band Directors Association (MACBDA) shows in Wisconsin from June 27 - July 4, 2010, participating on Sunday, July 4, in the Great Lakes Band Championships.  The Band won every category they entered, bringing home more than 40 trophies. Tours like this are made possible by fundraising including Stampede Lotteries, and 50/50 ticket sales at the Daily Rodeo & Chuckwagons.