Immanuel McKenty is the new face of the Cortes Island Microgrants 4 Neighbours Program.
When this ZOOM interview began, he was sitting in a room that looked very similar to where I interviewed him along with the rest of the Awakeneers on previous occasions.
Cortes Currents: Give me your spiel and then I’ll ask some questions.
Immanuel McKenty: “ The 2025 round of the Cortes Island MicroGrants is now open for applications between March 10th and April 7th. We’re accepting applications for cool projects in on in theCortes community and giving out grants between $50 and $500. The application process is super simple. The link is on the Cortes Foundation website under their Grants section. And there’s also posts on Tideline and the various different Cortes Island Facebook pages. One interesting new thing we’re trying this year for the first time is we’re planning to put all of the applications out for input to the whole community once we receive them. So anyone who lives on Cortes can log in and view all the applications and submit their votes on which are their favourites.”
“I’m looking forward to seeing all the creative projects that get submitted and there’s a few that are coming in already.”
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