Community foundation serving Central Alberta, including Red Deer and surrounding communities. It offers multiple grant programs, community microgrants, scholarships, and donor-directed funding for charities, projects, and students. View The Red Deer & District Community Foundation (CFCAB)'s website for more information.
The Community Foundation of Central Alberta is a place-based philanthropic funder that supports charitable organizations, community projects, and students across Central Alberta. Its website describes the organization as a grant maker, with funding activity that includes community grants, legacy grants, microgrants, gender-equality funding, and student financial awards.
The foundation also works as a community philanthropy hub, helping donors create endowed and flow-through funds that can support causes, agencies, and programs over time. This structure allows it to distribute money both through discretionary community granting and through donor-advised or designated funds.
The site notes that awards are disbursed directly to post-secondary institutions and that grants and funds are administered in line with charitable and regulatory requirements. It also highlights long-term endowments, donor stewardship, and ongoing community impact reporting.
The organization states that it has operated since 1989 and previously used the name Red Deer & District Community Foundation before adopting the current name Community Foundation of Central Alberta.