Indigenous Community Development Program

The Indigenous Community Development Program was created in 2023. The purpose of this program is to connect us with Indigenous communities and deliver baseball programming while also building rapport with local people. This program is a result of our strive for Truth and Reconciliation in baseball.

In 2022, Baseball Manitoba applied for two sport grants, one through the Province of Manitoba's Arts, Culture, and Sport in Community (ACSC) Fund and one through the Canadian Parks and Recreation Association (CPRA). We received a grant of $25,000 for Phase 1 of Indigenous community baseball development from the ACSC fund and another $25,000 from the CPRA (Government of Canada funding via the Community Sport for All Initiative) for a total of $50,000. All of us at Baseball Manitoba are proud to be a part of this significant investment in sport.

In 2024, Baseball Manitoba travelled to 11 communities to deliver baseball programming: Crane River, Ebb and Flow, The Pas, Peguis, Sagkeeng, Cross Lake, Waterhen, Flin Flon, Black River First Nation, Snow Lake, and Buffalo Point. Each community received a bag of equipment.

Find a downloadable info page for the program below.