Objectives

The Hamber Foundation is incorporated under the Societies Act of British Columbia and is registered under the Income Tax Act of Canada as a private charity. The Foundation makes grants for cultural, educational and charitable purposes within the Province of British Columbia. The Foundation prefers to support specific projects rather than contributing to general sustaining assistance or to large capital projects. The Foundation may review major grant proposals from time to time.

Since 1965, in excess of $12 million has been distributed by The Hamber Foundation throughout British Columbia.

The long list of grant recipients is comprised of deserving organizations and associations in the arts, athletics, health care and medicine, education, youth groups, and welfare.

The Foundation has also provided recording studios at the Charles Crane Memorial Library for the Blind; funded The Eric W. Hamber Memorial Library at Children's Hospital; has established and maintains a Chair at The University of British Columbia known as The Honourable Eric W. Hamber Professorship in Medicine; funded the Special Collections Reading Room at the new Vancouver Public Library known as the Aldyen Irene Hamber Room; funded the Hamber Foundation Room at the SFU Center For Dialogue and established the Hamber Foundation Visiting Professorship in Dental Geratrics Endowment Fund at UBC.

Grants have helped schools, libraries, art galleries, hospitals, crafts organizations, opera associations, dance companies, symphony orchestras, theatre, youth programs, and choirs. Hamber assistance has been provided to disabled athletes, to libraries for books and tapes, theatre companies to conduct school tours, fund scholarships, bursaries and awards, furnish sports equipment for children and adolescents, purchase equipment for a hospital nursery, buy pianos for music schools, restore historical sites, foster summer arts festivals, purchase treatment equipment for the handicapped, seniors' centres and seniors' activities, fund the cost of sending deaf preschoolers to summer camp, mount art exhibitions for young people, and fund medical research. The list of projects is as wide-ranging as the interests and needs of the people throughout the cities, towns and communities of British Columbia.