06-05-2026, 01:43 PM
The 2026 Canada Post Community Foundation stamps are now available. The same surcharge of 10 cents per stamp / $1 per booklet applies. Instead of animals this year, the stamps feature children gardening and some very personable vegetables.
The Canada Post Community Foundation has provided funding for more than 1,400 projects across Canada since it began in 2012. Funds are returned to the communities where donations were raised. This means Canada Post often awards funds to very small projects that might be ignored by other grant programs. Reading the reports of past winners gives you a sense of the excitement a small public school might experience getting $5,000 to purchase books for the library or art supplies or musical instruments or a piece of playground equipment.
A booklet of these stamps would be a thoughtful gift tucked inside a Mother’s Day card, or a thank you card to a teacher. And I think it would be wonderful to give some of these with blank postcards to a young person and invite them to join you in a “retro” activity!
The Canada Post Community Foundation has provided funding for more than 1,400 projects across Canada since it began in 2012. Funds are returned to the communities where donations were raised. This means Canada Post often awards funds to very small projects that might be ignored by other grant programs. Reading the reports of past winners gives you a sense of the excitement a small public school might experience getting $5,000 to purchase books for the library or art supplies or musical instruments or a piece of playground equipment.
A booklet of these stamps would be a thoughtful gift tucked inside a Mother’s Day card, or a thank you card to a teacher. And I think it would be wonderful to give some of these with blank postcards to a young person and invite them to join you in a “retro” activity!
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