Establish a Fund
Create a Lasting Legacy
A designated fund can be created to help sustain a cause of your choosing. We offer flexible and customized ways to give by listening to your goals and helping you to create a plan that fits your needs.
View the list of designated funds within the Shevchenko Foundation.
How to Create Your Fund
- Determine the amount of your gift
- Choose what assets to contribute (cash, securities, life insurance, etc)
- Consider the area you would like to support
- The Shevchenko Foundation will issue a charitable tax receipt for the contribution(s) to the Fund
- Name your Fund
- Complete a “Fund Agreement” which outlines the parameters of your Fund
Consider establishing a fund today so you can witness its impact during your lifetime or, defer your gift through a will or other planned giving options. Our staff will work with you to determine how you can best achieve your charitable goals while meeting your financial needs.
Take a moment to use our helpful GIFTABULATOR® to see an illustrative example of the growth and long-term impact of a donation when used to establish a Designated Fund.
Paying it Forward: Stashuk Family Music Fund
Choosing The Shevchenko Foundation for this designated fund was an easy decision for our family.
The charitable focus of TSF with its values celebrating community, culture, and language is perfectly aligned with the legacy of our parents. We honour this legacy by paying it forward.
Born and raised in Winnipeg’s north end, John Stashuk and Julia Kolynich grew up in immigrant families deeply committed to church and community. They married in 1945 and moved to Vancouver to start a new chapter of their lives together.
Together, they found support and friendship at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church. Julia was a founding member of the Vancouver branch of the Ukrainian Catholic Women’s League. She was an excellent pianist and both were active choir members.
Raising their family of four boys, Julia and John placed great importance on the value of education. For Julia, this translated into a 25-year tenure teaching Ukrainian language and music at the Saturday heritage school.
Julia spearheaded Ukrainian language instruction in the Vancouver area at the University of BC, chaired the Ukrainian Heritage Language Foundation (today Ukrainian Studies Foundation of BC) and designed a new Self-Instructional Language Program currently being used as a test model at Simon Fraser University.
Embracing the power of media, Julia produced television specials that evolved the series Echoes of Ukraine on Rogers Community Channel. Commenting on this initiative, Julia stated, “We have to get our culture out in the public so people can see how beautiful it is.”
For her contribution to community development and the advancement of education and culture, Julia was awarded the highest honour of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC), the Shevchenko Medal.
John Stashuk was instrumental in establishing the UCC BC Provincial Council in 1990, and subsequently served as its president until his death in 1993.
John was a founding director of the Canadian Foundation of Ukrainian Studies (CFUS) and served as its president from 1983-87. A CFUS scholarship was established in his name at the University of Victoria to support Ukrainian studies.
Serving as a member of the Advisory Council on Multiculturalism for the Government of BC in 1988, he worked with government, business and other ethnic communities to ensure a strong presence for the Ukrainian community within the province’s multicultural mosaic.
Following John’s passing, Julia with her family decided to establish the Stashuk Family Music Fund with The Shevchenko Foundation in honour of their mutual love of music and to support the aspirations of future generations in the advancement of Ukrainian musical heritage.