K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation

This is also a wonderful organization we support!!

Come work with us!⁠
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Wildlife Preservation Canada's Native Pollinator Initiative is on a mission to save at risk bumble bees, and we're looking to fill multiple positions including Bumble Bee Conservation Technician - Southern Ontario 🐝💛⁠⁠
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Think you might be the perfect fit? Your passion for conservation can make a difference!⁠
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🔗⁠https://wildlifepreservation.ca/work-with-us/
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📸V. Macphail
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More about our Bumble Bee Recovery Program:
Since the 1990s, bumble bee numbers have been plummeting and that spells ecological disaster. Here at Wildlife Preservation Canada, we work to save at risk species of bumble bee from disappearing by monitoring them in the wild, breeding them for release at our conservation lab in Ontario, and studying their p**p for parasites! We even host special community science events across the province to track population sizes, locate declining populations and provide hands-on training programs with the goal of expanding our efforts across Canada. We are the only organization in the country working to rebuild at risk bumble bee populations through conservation breeding.

From 1995 to 2018 we ran the K.M. Hunter Artist awards and had our celebration party at the Gladstone Hotel every year. This is a shot of James Brown Rahaset and myself a few years ago at one of these celebrations. We granted over a million dollars to artists over that time period. This program was started by my father Martin Hunter and together with the help of the Ontario arts Council we helped run the juries and celebrated the work of the artists. You can see videos of a lot of the winners on our website at www.kmhunterfoundation.ca

Wonderful to support the day of the girl breakfast at Crossroads in Oct. They do such important work to support Girls and Women in Africa, working to stop gender based violence and educate young girls and women about their rights.