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Beyond the 30-metre FireSmart zone

🌳 Wildfire doesn't stop at a property line, and neither should our thinking.

Beyond the standard 30-metre FireSmart zone, Transition Salt Spring is building education for landowners on reducing risk in the forests and ecosystems around their homes, starting with dead and dry vegetation and branches.

👉 Fund the next phase of wildfire readiness: https://tinyurl.com/transitionsaltspring

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The Foundation is proud to partner with Transition Salt Spring Society on their Wildfire Ready campaign through the Climate Action Fund. Donate today at the link below!

Launching our Campaign!

🔥 Is Salt Spring ready for the next wildfire season?

We think there is a lot that we can all be doing now to get more prepared and reduce our risks over the coming years.

Over the next two weeks, we're asking our community to help us do more to help you.

Your donation to the Climate Action Fund, held at the Salt Spring Island Foundation, funds Transition Salt Spring's Wildfire Ready program: education, outreach and advocacy work that helps this island get more prepared.

👉 Donate today: https://tinyurl.com/transitionsaltspring

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Once a year, the Foundation appeals for your support in continuing its vital work of funding charitable activities in the community. You can see the impacts of this work in the new Community Report, which celebrates the Foundation's banner year, funding over $2.7 million dollars back into the community through 135 local initiatives.

Whether it’s setting up a monthly donation, starting your own fund, contributing to the Community Endowment Fund or to an existing named fund, or leaving a will bequest, we have flexible solutions to support your inspired giving. Join our 1600+ donor-strong community today by donating at https://ssifoundation.ca/make-a-donation/.

The Foundation is honoured to once again support this important Truth and Reconciliation Day gathering at Fernwood Dock. Gratitude to Kurt Irwin and the Penelakut Tribe for leading this event for the Salt Spring community. 🙌 Hope to see you there!

This event has moved me so much over the years. Please join us.

Know a youth aged 15-24 who would like experience in a non-profit environment? The Foundation is now recruiting for the Fall 2026 Foundation of Youth committee! This is a great opportunity to learn about granting to local youth projects and give back to the community. Email [email protected] for details and registration.

Don't forget to fill out the Community Health Needs Assessment survey! It only takes a few minutes and you can enter to win 1 of 5 local gift cards of up to $300!

Is health important to you? Do you live on Salt Spring Island?
We need your voice!!
The last community health needs assessment for Salt Spring Island was completed in 2019. Since then, things have changed a lot. Salt Spring Island is a unique community with unique needs. Strong healthy public policy must be based on accurate and current data, so help us get that data!

Please use the QR code on the image/poster or copy and paste this link https://forms.gle/iheMyTR9APrtE9Ej9 in to your browser.

To honour your time you can opt in at the end of the survey to a draw for a local gift card of your choice. There will be five offered, in the amounts of $300 (2), $200 (2), and $100 (1).

All data that we collect will be reported back to the community in the fall of 2026. To do this work the Salt Spring Health Advancement Network is supported by the CRD and PlanH, BC Healthy Communities fund.

If you would like support to complete the survey or to book an information session with your group please reach out to Amanda Myers at [email protected]

Thu-it [Truth] starts with Thu-itstuhw [Telling the Truth] - Coming to Salt Spring Island!

June 18th to 21st
Salt Spring Farmer's Institute

Thu-it [Truth] (pronounced Tha-eet) is a self-guided, multi-media walk-through experience that takes you through over 150 years of colonial history — and the impact it has had and continues to have on Indigenous communities, families, and individuals.

Told through archival material, images, audio, and video, and rooted in the stories and experiences of Quw'utsun' Elders, Thu-it invites participants to reconsider what they were taught, and to discover Thu-it — Truth.

The exhibit first ran in Duncan, BC in the fall of 2022. This weekend, a condensed version comes to Salt Spring Island for a limited four-day run during the Salt Spring Indigenous People's weekend.