Past Recipients
2017
Credit Counselling Society
To provide funds for speaker honorariums for Financial Forum 5
2015
Credit Counselling Society
To provide funds for speaker honorariums for Financial Forum 5
2014
Alberta Home Economics Association $1500
To cover costs associated with speakers for the 2015 Annual Conference.
2013
Alberta Home Economics Association – Calgary Branch$1500
To provide funds for the keynote speaker on financial awareness at the 2014 Annual Conference.
Financial Forum 5: A Meeting for Financial Counsellors and Educators $500
Sponsorship for initial expenses for the 2015 event.
Prince Edward Island Home Economics Association $900
Sponsorship for professional development on the topic of Consumer and Household Debt.
2012
Financial Forum 4: A Meeting for Financial Counsellors and Educators$1500
To provide partial coverage of the costs associated with running this meeting.
Regina Home Economics for Living Project (HELP) $1000
To provide funding to assist two HELP educators in attending Financial Forum 4 in Winnipeg.
Leanne Leverick $1000
To assist with costs to attend a course (Divorce and Family Mediation) offered by Alberta Arbitration and Mediation Society.
2011
Regina Home Economics for Living Project (HELP)$780
To provide training for HELP facilitators on Alzheimer's disease.
Financial Forum 4: A Meeting for Financial Counsellors and Educators $1500
Preliminary funding for planning and organizing the 2012 event.
Federated Women's Institutes of Canada
Funding up to $750 to pay transportation costs of speaker (Elaine Froese) to national convention.
2010
Stacey Yanchuk Oleksy$1000
To attend a Neuro-Linguistic Programming Course to enhance her coaching skills.
Regina Home Economics For Living (HELP) $1000
To allow HELP facilitators to research and develop a family finance manual for immigrant and refugee families new to Canada.
Doreen Gardner Brown$800
To support attendance at the Association of Divorce Financial Planners (ADFP).
Elaine Froese – Boissevain, MB$1000
To support completion of the writing and publication of a workbook entitled "Doing the Tough Things Right... discussing the undiscussable" ™ to be used in her practice.
2009
Stacey Yanchuk Oleksy$1000
To complete the fifth and final module in the Art and Science of Coaching.
Regina Home Economics For Living (HELP) $945
To support training for facilitators on the issues of poverty and homelessness.
Faye Forbes-Anderson$2000
To support Financial Forum 3, a professional development opportunity for financial counsellors and educators.
2008
Regina Home Economics for Living Project (HELP)$1140
To provide training sessions for HELP facilitators on the topics of communication, rapport building and motivation.
Ontario Home Economics Association $1000
To support a personal finance professional education workshop.
New Brunswick Home Economics Association$1000
To support speakers on family finance at the NBHEA Annual Meeting and Conference.
2007
Regina Home Economics for Living Project (HELP)$1000
To provide training sessions on Wills and Estate Planning and On-Line Banking and Security.
Jane McKay Nesbitt – Brandon, MB$700
To support attendance at The American Marketing Association’s Annual Conference on Marketing and Public Policy and present a paper based on her dissertation.
Elaine Froese – Boissevain, MB$700
To support attendance at training sessions with Mediation Services, Winnipeg related to coaching and resolving conflict issues in business families.
2006
Doreen Gardner Brown, BC, Dr. Phyllis Johnson, BC, and Dr. Ruth Berry$2000
To support Financial Forum 2, a meeting for financial counselors and educators in Western Canada. (Proceedings of Financial Forum II 2006)
Margarida De Marchi – Winnipeg, MB$300
To support attendance at the Association of Financial Counseling and Planning Education (AFCPE) Conference.
2005
Patricia White – Ontario$1000
To support Financial Forum 2, a meeting for financial counselors and educators in Western Canada. (Proceedings of Financial Forum II 2006)
Margarida De Marchi – Winnipeg, MB$400
To support attendance at the 2005 AFCPE annual conference.
Brenda Purschke – Alberta$400
To support attendance at the 2005 AFCPE annual conference.
2004
Regina Home Economics for Living Project (HELP)$940
To support staff training in the area of addictions, recovery, and co-dependency and how these affect a person's behavior and family dynamics.
Jane McKay Nesbitt – Brandon, MB$500
To support Ph.D. study at Asper School of Business.
2003
Elaine Froese – Boissevain, MB$1000
To attend two certification courses, The Family Business Advisor, and Advanced Facilitation, at the Centre for Family Business, Waterloo, ON.
2002
Elaine Froese – Boissevain, MB$1000
To support certification training in conflict resolution from Mediation Services, Winnipeg.
2001
Regina Home Economics for Living Project (HELP)$930
To support staff training in the area of counseling/life skills training.
Judy Hannah – Langley, BC and Doreen Gardner Brown – Vancouver, BC$1500
Forum for Financial Counsellors in Western Canada to provide professional updating for home economists with private practices in financial counseling.
2000
Regina Home Economics for Living Project (HELP)$1710
To support staff training in the area of financial counselling, provided by Faye Forbes Anderson.
1996
Jan Williams-Russell$450
To support attendance at course on Comprehensive Family and Divorce Mediation in Saskatoon, given as part of Conflict Resolution Certificate Program of the British Columbia Institute of Justice.
1995
Carol Fraser – Truro, NSAwarded but declined
To support attendance at one course toward Chartered Financial Planners (CFP) designation.
1994
Betty Ann Deobold – Rosetown, SK
To support attendance at the 1994 Association of Financial Counseling and Planning Education National Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
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