{"id":6844,"date":"2024-03-04T15:26:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T19:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=6844"},"modified":"2024-03-04T15:32:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T19:32:40","slug":"queens-health-board-opens-funding-window-for-non-profit-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/03\/04\/queens-health-board-opens-funding-window-for-non-profit-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens health board opens funding window for non-profit groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6845\" style=\"width: 666px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6845\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/seniorsqccr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"530\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Astor Theatre&#8217;s Seniors Connecting group produced a holiday play for QCCR in December. (QCCR photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Non-profit groups in Queens County can now apply for wellness funds through the Queens Community Health Board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Past projects funded by the grants include a regular seniors art and craft get-together at the Astor Theatre, learning to curl sessions at the Liverpool Curling Club, and a podcast hosted by South Shore youth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Groups can apply for up to $3,500 for new projects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are 35 community health boards across the province. People can apply to more than one board if their project occurs in more than one area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Applications and additional information are available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityhealthboards.ns.ca\/wellness-funds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Community Health Board website.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The deadline for applications is 5 p.m. on Mon., May 6.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the news update below for Mon., March 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6844-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/mar424newsupdate.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/mar424newsupdate.mp3\">https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/mar424newsupdate.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-profit groups in Queens County can now apply for wellness funds through the Queens Community Health Board. Past projects funded by the grants include a regular seniors art and craft get-together at the Astor Theatre, learning to curl sessions at the Liverpool Curling Club, and a podcast hosted by South Shore youth. Groups can apply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[38,1200,525,513,1833,1832,1830,49,1831],"class_list":["post-6844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-astor-theatre","tag-funding","tag-grants","tag-liverpool-curling-club","tag-non-profit-groups","tag-podcast","tag-queens-community-health-board","tag-queens-county","tag-wellness-funds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6844"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6854,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions\/6854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}