Royal Roads University has received a gift—the largest in the university’s history—from the estate of Susan Bagley Bloom that will be used to bring programming to Salt Spring Island. The gift from the Bloom Canadian Alter Ego Trust 2020 is valued at $9.93M and includes Bloom’s property, home, gardens, and orchard, as well as funds for an endowment. Royal Roads intends to use the gift to offer workshops, seminars, events, and interdisciplinary programming that serves the overarching goal of inspiring changemakers. The land will be stewarded in partnership with the Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust (SSIFLT) and Salt Spring Island Conservancy, and in consultation with the local Indigenous communities.
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