Community First helps people in our community build better lives.

The Community First Development Fund is a registered charity dedicated to reducing poverty in Saskatoon.

The Community First Development Fund provides financing support for long-term local community economic development projects. Projects that address the causes, rather than the symptoms, of poverty.
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Community First helped Pearl Barker get financing to start her dog grooming business

Creating self sufficiency

Start up financing is not easy to arrange, especially for a first-time entrepreneur coming from a non-privileged background, without experience or collateral.
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Community First helped to kickstart Juniper's fund raising campaign

Affordable housing

A partnership with Community First kick-started the fund raising of the $4.7 million needed to build this project.
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Participants in the IDA program with IDA Program Coordinator Darlene Bracken

Investing in our youth

Growing up in some parts of Saskatoon can be tough. For marginalized kids there's many things that can get in the way of getting a decent start on life.
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Community First is supporting Station 20 West's fund raising campaign.

Community health

Community First is supporting Station 20 West's fund raising campaign. So far, over a million dollars has been raised.
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Carl is acquiring employment skills while working with Computers for Kids

Education and Training

Computers for Kids is a completely self supporting social enterprise. It refurbishes donated computers...
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