And the Thompson Community Foundation is hoping local residents will help them with this fund raiser to grow the foundation’s unrestricted fund.

For every five dollars donated to the challenge, The Winnipeg Foundation and provincial government will chip in a dollar each, essentially turning your five dollars into seven.

The money raised will go towards funding community projects as decided upon by the Thompson Community Foundation.

The President of the TCF, Kim Laycock, tells us just how much money has been granted.

“So the total to date is about $2.3 million in grants that we’ve provided back to the community to support a wide variety of projects and community programming.”

For details on the Giving Challenge, go to our foundationthompson.ca. It runs through to this Sunday.