Nunavut non-profit receives $5.5 million from Australian mining company’s charitable arm

By William Koblensky Varela, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunavut News A non-profit organization that funds Inuit-led initiatives in Nunavut, called Annauma Community Foundation, received $5.5 million from Australian group BHP Foundation. Annauma will give out 40 per cent of that money in community grants over the next three years, attendees of the Nunavut Trade Show were told at Iqaluit’s Aqsarniit Hotel on Sept. 15. “We would be doing a disservice to community if one year we only had $500,000 and the next year we had $3 million. So that’s why we spread that across three years, so we can maintain stability, said Danielle Gibbie, executive director of the Annauma Community Foundation. Long-term funding from Annauma goes towards the traditional sewing organization Agguaq Collective in Rankin Inlet, youth group Red Fish…

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