Grants and Awards
Past Winners of the Edith Rowles Simpson
Family Finance Award 1994-2010
| 2010 | Stacey Olesky ($1000) |
To attend a Neuro-Linguistic Programming Course. |
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 ($1000) |
To support completion of the writing and publication of a workbook entitled "Doing the Tough Things Right... discussing the undisscussable". | |
| 2009 | Stacy Yanchuk Olesky ($1000) |
To complete the fifth and final module to become credentialed. |
Regina Home Economics for Living Project (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 Assn. ($1000) |
To support a personal finance professional education workshop. | |
New Brunswick Home Economics Assn. ($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. |
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| 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, MB ($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, MB ($300) | To support attendance at the Association of Financial Counseling and Planning Education (AFCPE) Conference. |
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| 2005 | Patricia White, ON ($1000) | To attend courses for her Accredited Financial Counselor (AFC) designation. |
| Margarida De Marchi, MB ($400) and Brenda Purschke, AB ($400) | To support attendance at the 2005 | |
| 2004 | Regina Home Economics for Living Project (HELP) ($940) | To support staff training int he 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, Langely, BC and Doreen Gardner Brown, Vancouver, BC ($1500) | Forum for Financial Counsellors in Western Canada to provide professional updating for home economists with pricate 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 | Awarded but declined. Carol Fraser, Truro, NS | 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. |
