Boreal fund receives boost.

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College Boreal in Sudbury is the recipient of a $150,000 donation from L'Alliance des caisses populaires de l'Ontario limitee (Alliance of Ontario Caisses Populaires). The money will go into the school's Leading us to Prosperity capital campaign, which is used for student bursaries and new facilities.

With the donation, the school has raised $3.7 million of its $5-million objective.

"This generous donation from L'Alliance des caisses populaires de l'Ontario substantially increases the student bursary fund while supporting the funding of new facilities that we are placing at our students' disposal," said Boreal president Denis Hubert-Dutrisac in a news release.

Alliance president Philippe Boissonneault said the organization aims to support initiatives designed to help young people learn in French close to where they live.

"L'Alliance and its member caisses share values similar to those of College Boreal...