Eenou-Eeyou Community Foundation (Cree Foundation)

Students working together on the Mik’w Chiyam “Uusdaadaouw: Let’s Build” Cree School Board project which builds sharing of artistic expression and leadership development, Nemaska, QC.

Photo: Eenou-Eeyou Community Foundation

Chisasibi, QC: students learn how to build birch bark canoes.

Photo: Eenou-Eeyou Community Foundation

Summer day camp, Wemindji, QC.

Photo: Crédit photo : Fondation communautaire Eenou-Eeyou

Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute, Oujé-Bougoumou, QC.

Photo: Crédit photo : Fondation communautaire Eenou-Eeyou

Cree school teacher working with primary school students, Oujé-Bougoumou, QC.

Photo: Crédit photo : Fondation communautaire Eenou-Eeyou

Intergenerational cultural transfer at work: Demonstrating the fine work required to make a goose from tamarack needles.

Photo: Crédit photo : Fondation communautaire Eenou-Eeyou

February 2020 event at Montréal’s “Maison des régions” to celebrate the new “Grand Alliance” agreement and showcase the Eenou-Eeyou Community Foundation.

Photo: Crédit photo : Fondation communautaire Eenou-Eeyou

Supporting Transformative Initiatives for Eeyou/Eenou Communities

TThe Eenou-Eeyou Community Foundation is a registered non-profit organization dedicated to the health, social development, and prosperity of the 20,000 Eeyouch/Eenouch (James Bay Crees) who live in ten communities spread across Eeyou Istchee (a territory of 400,000 square kilometers in the James Bay region).

Eeyou and Eenou communities have shown incredible resilience and innovation over the centuries, including managing their distinct education and health care systems and delivering culturally appropriate essential services across Eeyou Istchee.

The Eenou-Eeyou Community Foundation helps to bring transformational improvements in education, health care, and social and cultural development. The Foundation is dedicated to building partnerships with business, foundation and government sectors, while defining Eeyou/Eenou philanthropy with a lens that incorporates Cree values and customs.

Power Corporation is pleased to support the Foundation’s breakthrough projects focused on youth.

For many centuries the Eenou-Eeyou communities lived upon the land with a philosophy of respect and a deep sense of stewardship.

Paul Desmarais, Jr.

Chairman

Power Corporation of Canada

BY THE NUMBERS

20,000

Eeyou and Eenou live in 10 coastal and inland Eenou-Eeyou communities located in north-central Québec on a territory of approximately 400,000 square kilometres

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creefoundation.ca